Thiel CS.5 Product Support Bulletin

EUROPE'S FIRST HOME THEATER MAGAZINE • AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 1999
Thiel MCS1 / CS2.3
Loudpeakers of Craftsmanship and Perfection
T
he smaller that speaker manufac-
turers are, the less often they are
able to realize their own ideas and
concepts. Especially with drivers, they are
largely dependent on standard available
units. The same applies vice-versa. Large
manufacturers, with their own driver
production, often lack the time for
innovative technology and
involved woodworking.
Very high level, depth of
production. In this area,
Thiel can be counted
among the rare excep-
tions. The small manu-
facturer in the American state
of Kentucky performs woodwork-
ing according to best tradition of
craftsmanship and has also recently been
manufacturing all drivers in-house. But
that's not all: physicist and mathematician
Jim Thiel's speakers also exhibit a series of
special construction features, from the
cabinet, to woofer with metal diaphragm,
to complex crossovers. Aside from the
"trivial" demand of a linear frequency
response, Thiel pays special attention to
two other parameters: having low distor-
tion and very minimal phase shift to
ensure great dynamics and correct spatial
information—virtues which are also
important in home theaters.
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Speakers for every purpose.
MCS1, Thiel has recently introduced a
speaker predestined for home theaters.
Of course, two MCS1s can also be used
magnificently in a two-channel system.
Thanks to its flexibility of positioning—
it can be used vertically as well as
horizontally—nothing stands in the way
of its use as a center channel speaker
either. For this test, we supplemented
one MCS1 with two floor-standing
THIEL CS2.3s featuring the same
midrange-tweeter, but making a
subwoofer unnecessary as the CS2.3 has
sufficiently powerful bass. For rear
speakers, either two MCS1's or alterna-
tively small floor-standing speakers such
as the Thiel CS.5 were used.
With the