Vandersteen Quattro


What's the buzz about Vandersteen's Quattro? Anybody hear them at CES 2005?

I have my ears on them, because my next pair of speakers will be time and phase aligned. To the best of my knowledge, that doesn't leave too many choices other than the Vandersteen, Meadowlark, and Thiel lines. Je pense le Gallo Reference 3A is time, but not phase, aligned.

Anybody know of other candidates?

Thanks,
Jay

jburidan
I can only offer a second-hand comment based on a conversation I had yesterday with Tim Ratcliffe, owner of "Experience Audio" in Seattle, WA. (For Seattle-area audiophiles who are not familiar with Tim's store, I'll quickly mention that his product lines include: electronics from Aesthetix, Audio Research, Plinius, Copland, Gamut, 47 Labs, and Klyne; speakers by Avalon, ProAc, Alon/Nola, and Reference 3M; turntables from VPI, ClearAudio, and Nottingham turntables; cartridges from Grado, ClearAudio, Benz, and DynaVector; cables from Acoustic Zen; power line conditioning from Richard Gray.)

Tim just returned from CES, and he said that he listened at some length to the Quattros and was very impressed with them. He thought the Quattros offered exceptional performance for the money, while also taking up less "air space" than the larger Vandy models.
Jburidan, I believe that phase-aligned and time-aligned are the same thing. A system can't have the wavefront created by all its drivers be in time alignment unless all the drivers (and crossover, of course) are phase-aligned.

I could be wrong and I'm willing to read more info about it.
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