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Vandersteen Model 5/5A Users

To those of you who have or had a pair of these fine speakers, I have a couple-o-questions:

1) Has anyone used anything under the speakers other than the stock cones? (I've only used the stock cones.)

2) How large is your listening room and how far out from the back wall and side walls do/did you have your speakers? (My room is 22' X 16'. My speakers are 88" out from the back walls and 48" out from the side walls - positioned along the short wall.)

3) What have you found to be the best setting for the subwoofer level Q settings. (Mine are at "0" and "5", respectively.)

4) What amount of toe-in do/did you find ideal? (Mine are towed-in about 1/2".)

4) Have you had the 11 bass contour settings adjusted using a tone and sound meter as described in the manual? If so, what difference did you experience? (All 11 on mine are set "straight-up".)

Thanks
4yanx

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sidssp
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1. I use the stock cones.
2. My room size is 15'x 38'. I place them 76" from the front wall and 42" from the side walls.
3. Q set at 5.
4. About 1" toe-in. I found that give me a larger sweet spot.
5. Your dealer should adjust the subs for you. My dealer didn't so I bought a measuring program call ETF and spent a few weekends to adjust them myself. They really cleaned up lumpy bass.

BTW, you can’t use simple tone and sound meter to adjust the subs. The ETF program I used wasn’t ideal either. You really need a Real Time Analyzer if you want to do it right.
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