Interesting video with Richard Vandersteen talking about his subs

Jim, I lost your contact info.  Please resend. Thanks.  Yes, I'm a fan boy, but I also love other products as we all do. 

I just think he's nailed in IRT his overall approach.  He knows where the compromises probably sound best for the majority of listeners.  I know that so many very famous musicians, reviewers and producers have his speakers in their personal home systems and that really says a lot.  I never would buy because of that, but I'd surely audition because of it.  I went into a store af ew years back to purchase a new set of Proac's and wound up with Vandersteen's instead.  Thats' the POLAR opposite of when I went into a store in RI in teh 90's to get the 3's and walked out with Proac towers that I regretted from day one.  Kept them for a LONG time though. lol.

Tim, you nailed it.  It did a few things great. I HAD to use tubes that sounded like tubes, lmao.  I became good friends with the owner.  Irony is that he sold Vandy's, but didn't love them.  I wish I had been more up to date at that point, but I wasn't.  I almost wish I had gotten the later Spendors as they were very musical.  He also had the Apogee's.

Guys, the reason he sold them to me for 1000 was to get rid of them for the newer version with the fabric tweeter.  That was a very good speaker.  After a few years my surrounds fried (all of the older Proacs had that problem).  I got a full set of them from the distributor, but they were for the newer towers. We also got the newer tweeters along with the proper crossovers.  We wired them up with MIT internal cables and Cardas silver solder if I recall correctly.  New WBT binding posts also. Basically we rebuilt the speakers and they were special after that.  I still had to use tubes on them though.  They disappeared just like all his speakers did.  The sound was MUCH closer to his reference speaker sound after we installed those drivers and crossovers.  The wire made a huge difference. 

I had my preamp and mono blocks rewired as well as upgrading all the caps and resistors, lol.  Great designs taken to another level, but these Vandy's just crush the ProAcs.  I will say that the new ProAc ribbons are the smoothest ribbon tweeters I've heard so far.  They just seem to really lack in any deep bass. Even the 40's don't do it for me compared to the Steen's (even my old Treo's)

I"m glad that Jim is enjoying MY Basis TT ;).......er...now YOURS, lmao....Soooo happy that you are enjoying it. One of the best buys in all of audio.

It was the 3.6 driver set if I recall.  Richard (the former distributor) sent them along.  

I'm so jealous.  Richard must like Cowboy Junkies as all Vandy dealers show with that song, lmao...I love it!!!!

M, that table is sick.  I was friendly wiht AJ after I got it and he said that the only upgrade it needed was his Vector 4 arm. I tried to find one in good shape, but no one sells those things used, lol.  He said that with that arm, it will outperform any under 20k table he's heard. Now, that's HIS baby, but I now many who have said the same thing.  He said that it's not overkill for that table Jim has now.  That alone says a ton.  

Jim, I know you will eventually get that arm and I can't wait to hear your thoughts on it, lol.  I actually have one of AJ's power cords that he sold me for cost before he left us and it made a nice difference in my DAC.  I love the new AQ cables better, but AJ was a great engineer for sure.

I'm getting mine for a dance (j/k) lol...

That arm is so special. Have heard it a few times and wow is it good.  Let me know if you start a thread.

I heard those 4's many times.  I forgot they were powered subs.  They were a big ass speaker for sure.