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ELECTRONICALL Y REpRINTEd fROm ApRIL 2013 IssuE 232 Thiel’s innovaTive Cs2.7 The Legacy Continues MuSic fROM SpEciAl AffORdAblE led zeppelin buddy Holly SpEAkER iSSuE! bob dylan chet baker 7 Models from $398 New High-Res 5 TOp SpEAkER downloads dESiGNERS Reveal Their Secrets OppO’S AMAziNG...
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As with all Thiel designed and built The Thiel CS2.7 is a remarkable transducer at any price and a superb value drivers, this element utilizes a short-coil/long-gap even at its cost of $7999 a pair. To be quite frank, I expected far more sonic and copper stabilized motor system to ensure ultra- compromises relative to Thiel’s top-of-the-line CS3.7.
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Sensitivity: 87dB@2.8V/1m Impedance: 4 ohms (2.4 ohms minimum @160Hz) Recommended power: 100—400 watts Dimensions: 11" x 41" x 16.7" Weight: 77 lbs. Price: $7999 ThIEL LOudspEAkERs 1026 Nandino Blvd. Lexington, KY 40511 (859) 254-9427 Comment on this article at www.theabsolutesound.com...
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If there is any trade-off in cost and size, it lies in the deep bass, but the trade- exaggerated output in the deepest bass, but life is a off is much smaller than I expected. The CS2.7 has only an 8" woofer, but it series of tradeoffs and this is a case where I feel Thiel is supported by an oval passive radiator.
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DSPeaker Anti-Mode 2.0 Dual Core unit [reviewed by Robert E. Greene in Issue there is no way to exactly compare a speaker with 230]. But don’t push the Thiel 2.7s much below 30Hz, by using too much the 200 hours I’d put on it when I began this review bass boost in the lowest frequencies, or equalize them much above 200Hz, versus the same speaker at 300 hours when I finished.