Ctsooner i'm glad you love your vandersteens but I had to chime in and correct your statements. All these so-called advances in materials are mostly bunk. A good old paper driver is still king for musicality. You can assemble a system with eighty-year-old technology that will sound better than everything at the shows. Now I'm not disputing the fact that material advances have made better capacitors and resistors but as far as in speaker technology I'm not buying.
My system consists of a pair of Oris horns with Fostex drivers and separate tweeters. I have a pair of TAD 15 inch woofers that are separately by amped. The horns and tweeters are run by a western electric 300 B clone and the woofers are run by a sumo Polaris solid-state amp.
I am very familiar with Vander Steen sound having on the pair for numerous years and I have heard your speakers numerous times as well. I'm sure your system sounds very very good and it will probably do a few things better than mine but likewise my system will do a few things better than yours. If all of these advances were so great your modern system should completely obliterate mine with it's 80-year-old technology. Rest assured that would not be happening.
I feel the need to try and correct these types of statements because I feel that they are driven by marketing simply to cause people to spend endless amounts of money and never exit the merry-go-round.
My system consists of a pair of Oris horns with Fostex drivers and separate tweeters. I have a pair of TAD 15 inch woofers that are separately by amped. The horns and tweeters are run by a western electric 300 B clone and the woofers are run by a sumo Polaris solid-state amp.
I am very familiar with Vander Steen sound having on the pair for numerous years and I have heard your speakers numerous times as well. I'm sure your system sounds very very good and it will probably do a few things better than mine but likewise my system will do a few things better than yours. If all of these advances were so great your modern system should completely obliterate mine with it's 80-year-old technology. Rest assured that would not be happening.
I feel the need to try and correct these types of statements because I feel that they are driven by marketing simply to cause people to spend endless amounts of money and never exit the merry-go-round.