Any Vandersteen 7 Owners in SFO Bay Area ?


Hi,

There is no dealer in San Francisco Bay Area who carries Vandersteen 7.  I want to listen to them before i consider and upgrade and wondering if there is anyone in my area who can help me.  I own 5A Carbons and thinking of upgrading. 
veerapaneni

Showing 3 responses by randyhat

Sounds great.  Those are beautiful speakers.  I ordered a pair in the Zebra wood and should have them in about 3 or 4 weeks.  BTW, what speaker cables are you using?  I'm debating whether or not to upgrade my speaker cables with my new speakers.  I am currently using a pair of internally bi-wired Cardas Cross.  I was planning to just keep them but it now seems that my Cardas spades may be too wide for those slots on the speakers, so that has set me to thinking whether I should bother with having them re-terminated or just sell them and buy a better cable.  Anyone have recommendations for speakers cables...under $2000 if possible.
I am in the Dallas area.  The dealer will be setting up my speakers for me.  I have already mentioned to him my interest in new cables so maybe he can let me try out a few pairs.

You should be able to get very close.  I just got the Quatros and have had them in my system for a little over a week.  I am coming from stand mounted monitors with a single REL sub.  I was curious to hear the difference in the bass between the two built in subs vs the the single REL  Comparing the two I find that interestingly enough the REL got it right most of the time and in some cases may have gone a little deeper than the Quatro. That probably has to do with the 10" woofer in the REL vs the two 8" woofers in the Quatro.  The biggest advantage to the Quatro is being able to fine tune the bass to the room.  While there is probably more versatility with 11 band equalizer on the Quatro to tune the bass, the two separate subs will give you more versatility with regards to placement.  If you were starting from scratch I would recommend the Quatro over the Treo but since you already have two high quality subs I suspect that will be a great combination.