Thiel Audio CS-2.4 Matte Black

For sale a pair of perfectly well taken care of Thiel Audio CS2.4 Speakers.


Sound-stage online magazine:

Conclusion

The Thiel CS2.4 is a great loudspeaker, one of
the very best I've heard regardless of price. Its treble soars and its bass plummets, but
all the while the CS2.4 sounds utterly neutral and musically communicative. This speaker
looks gorgeous and has the earmarks of heirloom-quality craftsmanship. The CS2.4 will be
at home in a tweaked-out dedicated listening room or in a finely decorated living room,
and its moderate size means it won't take up much space in either.

To head off e-mail over the CS2.4's Reviewers' Choice status, I will
say that the CS2.4 is certainly one of the best speakers in its price range, but it is not
a state-of-the-art offering (Thiel's own CS7.2 would apply here) or a stone-cold bargain
(think CS1.6) at almost $4000 per pair. However, for those buyers in between these two
models in terms of their budgets, the CS2.4 competes favorably with speakers that cost
multiples of its price and thus makes a very strong case for itself.

Given all of the praise I heap on the CS2.4, you
probably think I'd like to own a pair. Not true. I want five for multichannel
music.

Review Summary


Sound
"A precise,
high-fidelity design"; "if you want warmth or sweetness or some other coloration
from your speakers, the CS2.4s will disappoint you -- they're far too neutral"; bass
"goes deep," but "some listeners…will think that the CS2.4's
bass is actually not very deep at all because it lacks additive warmth and weight."

Features
Refined three-way
time-and-phase-aligned speaker that uses Thiel-designed and -manufactured drivers,
including "a new coincident driver array, which places the tweeter dome at the center
of the midrange driver"; "the veneer is book-matched, and the workmanship is
impeccable."

Use
"The key to
setting up the CS2.4s…is to sit far enough away to allow the drivers to integrate,
but, at least in my case, only a little farther away than the speakers are apart from each
other."

Value
"Audiophiles
with refined tastes and tight budgets can think about and own this speaker."
Specs

Description: Three-way, floorstanding loudspeaker. Drive-units
(all anodized aluminum): 1" (25mm) dome tweeter coincident with 3.5"
(114mm) cone midrange; 8" (204mm) cone woofer; 8.5" by 11" (230mm)
passive radiator. Crossover frequencies: 800Hz, 2.5kHz. Crossover
slopes: acoustic first-order, 6dB/octave. Frequency response:
36Hz–25kHz, ±2dB. Phase response: minimum phase, ±5°. Impedance: 4 ohms
nominal, 3 ohms minimum. Sensitivity: 87dB/2.83V/m. Recommended power:
100–400W.
Dimensions: 41.5" (1055mm) H by 11" (280mm) W by 14" (380mm) D. Weight: 70 lbs (154kg).
Finishes: Matte Black


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3140 Far Hills Ave.
Kettering, OH 45429

937.293.2600

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