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Looking For Advice After Dumb Vandy Purchase

Good evening fellow enthusiasts. Looking for advice after just making a stupid purchasing error. I usually do good research before making any transaction but I fell in love hard and got burned.

Just paid for some used Vandersteen Quatro for a "decent" price but failed to notice the purchase dis not include the crossovers. I live in the boonies so dont have a dealer handy to maybe just make my gear work without the crossovers, and it seems now the cost of new ones are a staggering $1295.00. This was for sure not in my budget as I am needing a couple of other pieces to complete this puzzle. Worse yet...once I take delivery of the Quatros...I wont have a way to even give them the once over sound wise to make sure they sound fine. 

Any advice? I am bummed beyond all get out at this moment. 
troutki50

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bigkidz
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@troutki50 I think the Quattros are the same HP filters as my Model 5As. If so I will make you a pair for a little cost plus the parts. I built mine and compared them to the Vandersteen and you could not tell the difference and actually I preferred the ones I built since we used better parts.

Send me a message and I will build you a pair. The Jupiter capacitors are OK but I prefer V-Caps over the Jupiter capacitors but you don’t really need either to make a better HP filter as Vandersteen uses pretty cheap resistors and capacitors. I think the parts were under $100 plus the eBay aluminum chassis boxes were not that much.

Let me know.

Happy Listening.
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