VMPS QSO 626 Ribbon Versus Josephs/ Tylers

Well it certainlyis nice to have to choose between this type of quality.

Your name looks familiar and I might have been the one who suggested the VMPS to you.

To be fair, I am an audio consutlant, in Los Angeles and carry over 20 brands of speakers. I do not carry the Joseph Audio (although I really like them) nor the Tylers.

I have heard both and suggest that you could not "go wrong" with either.

But...

I make suggestions to my clients based on the speakers i would buy for myself, if I were in their room/electronics/situation.

I also just purchased for "my" system the 626R FST. This designation means that it has the new tweeter which is a marvel in the reproduction of treble.

To have this degree of detail and resolving power without any harshness is quite an accomplishment.

I have heard the three speakers in question and would not hesitate to suggest the VMPS626R.

As far as a metallic sound? There is none unless it is a metallic instrument.

Obviously audition is the best method of selecting a speaker, but I would seriously suggest that it would be hard to beat the 626R FST for under $8000, in the area of soundstage, imaging, balance, detail, dynamics and resolution.

Just my biased opinion. If your in Los Angeles, let me know you can hear mine.

John

I have heard the JA sigs...and they have a very "airy" presentation...and good bass for a speaker of its size...hate to stir up the pot...but for half the JAs go for...Green Mountain Europas are extremely musical...and have a time/phase coherent design that really make them difficult to beat...at any price...good luck

I have not listened to the Linbrook, but I have listend to Jospeh 25, Dynaudio 24, Wilson-Benesch arcs, Audiophysics Virgo, and I purchased vmps 626. Vmps in its stock form is a very good speaker (transparent with lots of punch), but it was a bit edgy and electronic. I recently replaced with a version that has TRT capictators and the new tweeters. All I can say is that I would not trade my modified speakers for any of the ones that I have heard. So If you get the VMPS, you really should get the new tweeter, which is so much sweeter and more natural sounding than the original and if you have the money, you should go for the auricap or TRT upgrades.

Green Moutain Audio Europa's..........I second that. Amazing speakers. Listen to them.

I have been doing audio consulting for several years, have been in hi-end for 25, do not sell or represent any products, and am a part time musician: for under 2K, I have found little to compare with the Green Mountain Audio Europa's which list, amazingly, for unker 1K. I cannot listen to speakers for long that are not phase correct. If you have a good ear you will eventually hear the crossovers in speakers that are not; I do not recommend speakers with a lot of drivers either. I do not believe tha ribbon tweeters (which are excellent often) mate seamlessly or well with other drivers. When someone says the tweeter is terrific they are implicitly saying the tweeter is drawing attention to itself -- as, e.g. in some Coincident designs. I don't know Tylers well, but I have heard most everything, and in my second system, I chose the Europas. They are also extremely musical, surprisingly full range, dynamic and detailed yet easy to listen to, good looking, ridiculously inexpensive and very easy to drive. I have driven them with everything from an older Leak tube amp to Arcam 35watts to the innersound ESL amp. They never fail to sound satisfying yet revealing.
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