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| Thiel Owners @jafant Have you ever compared your CS2.4SE to Vandersteen 2Ce Sig II, 3A Sig or Treo? I used to own CS1.6 and loved them except there was no low bass (essentially nothing below 50 cycles in my room) and an occasional distortion in the upper mid-... | |
| Full-sounding SS amps (besides Pass) Not necessarily warm or tubey per se, but fleshed out in the upper bass and harmonically complete in the midrange, as opposed to lean.Ayre! | |
| Vandersteen Seminar at Audio Connection (NJ) a coincident driver has absolutely nothing to do with pistonic..... Right, I didn't intend to imply that it did but pistonic behavior is very much the design goal of the TAD and expensive KEFs (not sure how close the Chinese-made KEFs get but th... | |
| Vandersteen Seminar at Audio Connection (NJ) RV mentioned that the carbon/balsa sandwich cones -- just the cones -- cost him about $1400/each. OK, maybe the world isn't ready for a $15K model 2! lolSome others have also gotten pistonic behavior: Vivid, KEF, TAD, and Avalon come to mind. A... | |
| Vandersteen Seminar at Audio Connection (NJ) [RV] mentioned that a major objective is to bring pistonic behavior into the lower-cost designs Please, please, please! I've fantasized about my 2Ce Sig IIs with carbon tweeter and midrange. That might be hard to make coherent with a lesser woof... | |
| New Vandersteens or something else? How about Ryan speakers of Riverside CA. The top-of-the-line model looks nice but is out of my budget. I can't get excited about the drivers in the more affordable models. Reference 3A Grand VeenaI like that the new ones have a beryllium tweete... | |
| New Vandersteens or something else? Monitor Audio is made in China. Yes, I found an entire article on Soundstage about that! | |
| New Vandersteens or something else? Here's another thought: Bryston Middle T. Anyone compared that to Vandersteen? | |
| New Vandersteens or something else? Vandys also one of my faves and tough to not just say move on up to Treos. If you haven't heard them before, you might give ProAc and Joseph Audio a listen just for reference if nothing else. I've heard the non-CT Treo and loved it. I'm sure ... | |
| New Vandersteens or something else? Are you near any dealers/major cities? I'm 90 minutes from a big city. Used to be a dealer that sold Ayre, Revel, B&W and many others. I think there is still a Vandy dealer down there. | |
| New Vandersteens or something else? Check out some of the British offerings. Spendor, Harbeth, ATC, etc. Other than the KEF Blade which is beyond my budget, probably the only British speaker I would consider is something from Monitor. The reason for this is I prefer (in my budget ... |