help thiel 2.4 placement???

Nice post Redkiwi. From my experience with the larger Thiels, they do like their breathing room between the speakers. Typically, setting up an equilateral triangle with speaker, speaker, listener is a good starting point. I've noticed that the Thiel's need more space between them and the back wall than between them and the side wall. I believe it's normally best to keep those distances different from one another (e.g., the front center of the driver should not be both 4 feet from the front and 4 feet from the side wall). Trust your ears since general rules may not apply to your particular acoustic environment or to your tastes. Experiment as both Redkiwi and Jazzdude suggest. By the way, both location and degree of toe-in will matter as will, with Thiels, speaker cones between them and the floor. Good luck.

Slight clarification. I meant to say that isolation cones attached to the bottom of the speakers and affixed to the floor or metal pucks add a lot to the character of Thiels. That's what I meant by "speaker cones between them and the floor". These are typically solid brass cones with the flat side attached to the speaker via a threaded cylinder (i.e., bolt without the head) and with the spiked side toward the floor. The impact on the CS-6's was spectacular and immediately evident. Send me an email if you would like more details.

Yes. I opted for brass cones/discs because: 1) They looked a lot nicer and that appealed to my wife, 2) I was able to purchase brass pucks with the cones so did not have to leave permanent marks on my wood floor, and 3) By the time I ordered the cones/pucks, I'd forgotten that Thiel shipped the spikes with their speakers (they were in the box). Well, what can I say???

However, I did try the Thiel spikes later with the pucks and didn't like them quite as much (though they are certainly better than no spikes at all). Good catch. Since the cones/pucks weren't very expensive, I continue to recommend them. But, no reason not to try the spikes first, especially on carpet (I'm still not crazy about leaving holes in the wood floor). Thanks Zaikes.