can thiel cs 2.4 rock

First of all, Thiel 2.4's are great speakers, but they do demand a couple of things:

1. Lots and lots of good clean power like Apachef1 says.
2. A big enough room for the drivers to integrate well at your ears, at least 8-10 feet away from your listening position.

Second, what kind of hard rock are you listening to? Is it mostly compressed and/or have instruments recorded out of phase? I brought three co-workers over last week and one of them wanted to hear Smashing Pumpkins. He wanted to hear "Cherub Rock", so I played it. After he heard it, he said that he couldn't tell any difference between my system and his Ipod. He was right.

Now that had nothing to do with the system or the speakers, it was the recording. If you listen to music that is compressed and/or recorded with out of phase guitars, then I wouldn't spend the money on the Thiels or anything in that league. You won't be able to hear what the speakers are capable of.

The better the speaker, the better the ability to reproduce the recording, but that's its limit: the recording.

Pehare,

I've found the same thing with my current system. It's frustrating: do I want to hear how well the well recorded music sounds enough to give up the CDs that either weren't recorded well, or more in my case, the CDs that maybe were recorded well but with the recording equipment of the period (70's)?

Chuck