ads 1290L w/upgraded capacitors on internal crossovers/ new woofers 2009 vs vandersteen 5

not sure what your question is?  Just about to recap a pair of Celestion Ditton 66 studio monitors

They are very different speakers. The ADS were well loved, but old, and with mids and tweeters that may not be replaceable. The Vandersteens are more recent and supported by the company, and I think a better speaker overall.

Greetings,

I have sold both The ADS is a good Box design from the 1986 era and for its time was a decent speaker if driven properly

. Driving this whole speaker with a 300 B amp will be somewhat of a challenge.

The Vandersteen 5 is a totally different animal it offers a constrained layer-dampened head isolated from the bass section that gets rid of any box colorations

It’s a phase and time-correct design that’s highly transparent a  bi-amped design that would optimize clarity at all frequencies. Your 300 B amp would be hooked up to a pair of High Pass filters driving from 100 HZ on up. this allows the amp to be relieved of its heavy lifting in the lower bass as the Vandersteen speaker’s built-in Low-frequency amps take care of 20 HZ on up to 130 At one time we had a Cary 300 B amp with 25 WPC playing Nat King Cole sounded absolutely wonderful Add its In room analog 22 point adjustable room EQ and to me its a no Brainer in favor of the Vandersteen. We had been voted Best Sound at the NY show with this speaker when the competition complained about their rooms saying these rooms suck!!

Best JohnnyR

Vandersteen Dealer NJ