Vandersteen 5a or Eggleston Andra II

Once again this thread melted into a useless arguement, we get it....some of you love a certain speaker, and some dont agree and love another one......this always turns into a "drunks in a bar" arguemant.
The original poster hasnt been back to post in this thread for nearly 3 weeks, I wonder why?

Mothra,

Ok. I accept that everyone has different tastes and reknown mastering engineers may have odd taste too. Good point. Folllowing one engineer or another may not lead to satisfaction. What do you think is a great speaker then? What is actually in another league? It definitely sounds like you have benefited from hearing many different setups and may be in good position to comment...what was the best or most neutral (or to your liking)?

I take it you don't like Wilsons because you prefer neutral sounding speakers and I agree again with you that they often have a bit of a boost in the bass, which many people like (meaning I don't necessarily see it as a weakness - they are still great speakers).

I bow to your ultimate moral superiority and keen insight Chad, and in all my sobriety, too. hic... I happen to like both speakers, as I noted.

I could not care less what surprises you, Dev. I am only surprised that you continue to insist in your "another league" fallacy. My original "offer", if you want to cal lit that, was the idea of assembling 20 folks for a fair trail comparing the Egglestons and the Vandys and my assertion that few to none would find the Egglestons in "another league" as you continue to asserted. I am game for that at ANY time though, as I thought I made clear above, I am not going to waste my time responding to your fully erroneous assumptions regarding how I and where I heard those speakers. Am I surprised that you didn't understand? no

That's not exactly correct, I don't believe it's drunks in a bar argument but a healthy discussion being worked out. If you read my posts it has been about my experience regarding Vandy and Eggleston set-up.

There are allot of individuals out there that seem to have a hidden agenda and high jack threads, nit picking over the use of words used etc. when it's the individuals own opinion.

There isn't much more one can do but actually offer to hear both system's is there? and at no time have I ever said that I don't like Vandy's.

I skimmed over your McCormack thread please, where would you like me to start? but I won't.

I don't believe you have actually even heard both set-up properly but instead only have a hidden agenda.

Stick to answering the original post instead of high jacking it with nonsense.