Von Schweikert VR-5SE

I have had mine since May and couldn't be happier, from top to bottom they are wonderful speakers. I'm using a Vac Phi 110 in triode to drive the top and a Spectron Musician III on the bottom. I found this to be the best although using either amp alone wasn't bad. The speakers just respond to the strenghths of each amp, they are also sensitive to cable changes. I am far from over with experimenting with cable and amps, I'd love to try the Dartzeel but as far as speakers go the only way I would part with these is to go with the 7's or 9's.

Asradict, Sorry for the delay but I've been real busy. I'll try to answer your questions as best I can. The sound of the VR-5? From top to bottom fantastic! Right out of the box I noticed they were the clearest speakers I have ever heard, the highs and the mids were the best I ever heard in my room and they only improved over time. If they had a weakness it was in the bottom end I thought. I was running the speakers with the Vac Phi 110 " I heard the Vac/ VonSchweikert VR4 SR at the NY show in 05,liked it so much I bought the amp and later the 5's".
I bought a Galibier TT. and was having it set up by Thom from Galibier, Thom was making a trip east to set up a few of the tables he had recently sold and asked if a few people from the area could come over and hear it. Two of the people commented I was only getting about 60% out of the speakers and suggested I switch amps or bi amp. I gave biamping a try "I didn't want to lose the high's and mids of the Vac" All I can say is WOW!! what a difference. It wasn't the speaker It was the amplification. Some people have decribed the 5's as mini 9's I couldn't agree more.
I have compared them to lot's of other speakers some costing quite a bit more if you want to privatly email me I would be glad to discuss them.
Cables are a lot of fun to experiment with as of yesterday I am using Goertz MI-3 Divinty, so far, not bad
I have used (borrowed) Purist Dominus bottom Nordost Frey top plus many more. As I said this is a work in progress.

Courtvision21
I agree with you 100%, In my earlier post I mention I'm now biamping using the Vac Phi 110 for the top and the Spectron MusicanIII for the bass bins I think the Spectron delivers 700 or 800 watt's into 4 ohms.

Moemoney,
My Vac has a gain of 38db, the Spectron has a gain of 28db.
From my Pre. I run two sets of cables one set to each amp. If left alone there would be a mismatch in volume the tube amp would play louder than the Spectron. To equal this out I put a pair of Rothwell 10db attenuators on the RCA's right before they enter the Vac amp. This did the trick, anyone who has heard the speakers can't tell there are two different amps running them " they are seamless " I thought the speakers were good before this change but they are now at another level. I bought the attenuators on Audiogon for i think $69.00. My friend has the VR5's also and was not as lucky with this project. He has the Atmasphere Ma1's and tried to mate them with the new PS audio amps but the speeds were off, the OTL's were just to fast for the PS audio amps. I am going to try and get him to contribute to this post, he knows far more than me on the subject.