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Met Richard Vandersteen today

I was invited to hear Mr. Vandersteen today at a dealers home. I also got to hear his many excellent spkrs. Richard I must say is a down to earth gentleman. He does not talk above you although I'm sure he can. He explained how he got started and what he did to improve his design. He also mentioned that there are only five spkrs that are time aligned. Can you name them? Anyway most of the gear was AR and I also got to hear a 275.00 sony sacd player. All said I was most pleased with the session and would recommed you go to listen to Richard when he gets to your town. (He was in Charlotte NC)
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danheather
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Green Mountain Audio Speakers are also time aligned. Their designed Roy (last name escapes me) is also very clear about the fact that there are FEW truly time-aligned speakers. In conversation he mentioned Spica, Vandersteen and Thiel although I'm sure there are others and certainly more than five.
rtaylorhouse72e0
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Just ran across your posting; Interesting. Glad you enjoyed meeting Richard. I am the shop owner where you met him. I have no idea who you are. Most everyone at the meeting was there by invitation except for a few who saw the notice in Stereophile or on the Vandersteen website.

I wish we had had more time to listen. I had a number of different amps warmed up but due to the large turnout and having to split the group into two sessions, there just wasn't time to do much listening.

Come back and visit sometime.

RT - Taylor House
jkaway
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A year ago ,when I knew literally nothing about high-end audio but had listened to Vandersteen speakers and was floored by their sound , I called his company to ask a few questions. To my amazement ,Vandersteen himself answered the phone and proceded to patiently explain without any attitude why I'd be wasting my time and money buying 15 year old V. speakers. The next day I went out and plunked down $1812.(w.CAL sales tax) for Model2 Signatures and my audiophile journey had begun.A very straight shootin' guy with a voice like Jim Backus.
beboppy
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Vandersteen speakers are TIME AND PHASE Coherent. There are dozens of speakers that are time aligned, and can be found at all price points.
There are only 5 widely available transducers that are time and phase coherent: Von Schweikert, Meadowlark, Dunlavy, Vandersteen, Thiel.
If you are spending alot of doe ray mee, you deserve to audition one of the above. You will buy them, and only replace them to acquire the next level up from one of the above brilliant engineer/designers.
You owe it to yourself, and your hobby, to get further info. on Richard Hardesty's audioperfectionist,com
heyoo_labguy
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I recently attended a seminar from Meadowlark designer Pat McGinty, and he says that the sloped baffle isn't all that maintains time-alignment. The slope is to keep the sound-originating (ok, so I can't recall his exact words) points of each driver on the same plane, so they're equi-distant from the listener's ears.
From my understanding, the simplicity of the 1st-order crossover is the major contributor to the time alignment. For more info, check meadowlarkaudio.com
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