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Thiel Owners

Guys-

I just scored a sweet pair of CS 2.4SE loudspeakers. Anyone else currently or previously owned this model?
Owners of the CS 2.4 or CS 2.7 are free to chime in as well. Thiel are excellent w/ both tubed or solid-state gear!

Keep me posted & Happy Listening!
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prof
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Out of curiosity, is anyone else getting weird stretched-width formatting for this page of the thread?
pacoinmass
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jafant and ronkent,

Thx for the welcome.

ronkent, The speakers are 6'8" apart cabinet to cabinet.  I'm going to try moving about 8' away.  I put them on spikes yesterday which seemed to improve the sound...tweeters are now at or slightly above ear level...helped a bit but not quite there. I've also asked Rob for prices..roughly about $1000 for a complete set for 1 speaker.  May get 2 sets just in case if I can improve the sound.

prof, not just you.  I had the same issue using Firefox.  Format looks right on Safari.  Strange.
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jafant OP
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Happy Friday! All.
unsound
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For their CS models Thiel suggested a minimum of 8’ from speaker to listener for proper driver intergration and time alignment, with a minimum of 1’ and ideally 3’-3.5’ and preferably even more from back of cabinet to wall and a minimum 3’ and preferable 5’ or more from sidewalls/corners in a forward firing equilateal triangle as a starting point for most of their loudspeakers. Thiel measured their speakers from a distance of 3 meters (just shy of 10’). The single co-axial driver models have some different placement reccomendations.

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ronkent
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Hi all,  yes the page suddenly stretched out for no reason.   thought it was my computer.  Paco, may i suggest something better than spikes.  I have used the brass feet from Mapleshade to much better effect, and also use the GAIA speaker feet.  I realize that i sit a little closer than Thiel has recommended,  but i have tried many positions and it seems to work.  I had the national sales manager and set up guru,  Trent Suggs from REL,  here about 6 months ago and he agreed that the placement of everything including me,  was about right.  Paco,  here is a link to some info that might help as it sure helped me many years ago.  look under room placement and speaker setup.   http://www.mapleshadestore.com/freeupgrades.php.  Having back-up drivers is really smart but i only keep the mid/tweeter here as in all of my 30 plus years of using Thiels,  I have never had a problem with the lower drivers and up until the 2.7's only lost one mid in my 2.2's
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