Thiel AudioCS5usedLegendary Thiel Audio CS5 Loudspeakers in Excellent Condition X PairProduct: Legendary Thiel Audio CS5 Loudspeakers in Excellent Condition X Pair Included: Factory spikes in case you want to install themDescription: In fantastic working condition, a...3750.00

Legendary Thiel Audio CS5 Loudspeakers in Excellent Condition X Pair

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Ships fromNorthvale, NJ, 07647
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Product: Legendary Thiel Audio CS5 Loudspeakers in Excellent Condition X Pair

Included: Factory spikes in case you want to install them

Description: In fantastic working condition, all drivers are in great shape except center cones of mid-range are not perfectly round which do not affect sound at all / Cosmetically, cabinets and grills are in great shape except few minor scuffs / Over all, they look and sound amazing.

Notes: A Pair of Legendary Thiel Audio CS5 Loudspeakers in Excellent Condition
Comes with factory spikes in case you want to install them.

They are from a non-smoking pet-free single audiophile owner.
They are massive and 2 people are needed to move these.

When Thiel launched its ambitious
new flagship, the CS5, at the 1989 CES, the company stated its technical
requirements as “tonal fidelity, spatial fidelity, transient fidelity,
and dynamic fidelity,” and the design goals as “uniform and extended
frequency response, time response accuracy, phase response accuracy, low
energy storage, and low distortion.” The driver complement for the
massive five-way CS5 was three 8" long-excursion drivers with dual-layer
Kevlar diaphragms, a 5" midrange driver operating from 400Hz to 1kHz, a
2" metal-dome upper-midrange driver handling 1kHz to 3kHz, and a 1"
metal dome for frequencies above 3kHz. Two of the three woofers were
dedicated to reproducing the bottom two octaves, while the third was a
mid/bass driver in its own sub-enclosure that crossed over to the
midrange at 400Hz.

The CS5’s massively complex crossover used
87 “elements” implemented with 114 discrete components. According to the
Thiel white paper, “most of the components are used to provide a high
degree of response shaping…32 of the elements are used to ‘fine tune’
the time response of the system.”

How fine-tuned was the CS5?
Thiel’s design goal for the CS5 was no more than 0.5dB of
octave-averaged variation from 200Hz to 10kHz. Thiel also allowed for
only a 0.5dB in-production variance. The use of Kevlar drivers moved the
cone’s first resonance higher in frequency (vital when rolling off the
driver at only 6dB per octave). Moreover, Kevlar’s resonance was more
predictable than that of other cone materials. This allowed Thiel to
notch-out in the crossover energy at that resonance frequency. According
to Thiel, “There is usually one resonance which, being very pure and
predictable, can be removed electrically with circuitry that also
automatically removes energy storage and phase shifts of the resonance.”
The crossover’s complexity in part gave the CS5 a reputation for
needing to be driven by a very powerful amplifier.

Service History:
None


Number of Owners: 1 

Tobacco Exposure: No

Pet: No


Original Price: $9200/pair (1990); no longer available (2007)

Dimensions: 64" H by 13" W by 17" D 

Weight:  180 lbs each


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