Von schweikert vr4sr up against mahler

Theta

My two cents may be of little value having not heard the specfic vienna speakers you now have, I have auditioned some of the Vienna line up in times past. However, I have heard the VSA VR4Sr's and I own the VSA VR4jr's. The VSA speakers are fantastic, there is truly music in those speakers. Paired with the quality Gryphon that you have, even if it is just for a change of pace, you could not go wrong, you will love the VS speakers. The only question may be do you really have to take the leap to the VSA SR's when the JR's may do very nicely indeed.

I owned VR 4.5's for 3 years before owning my current Vienna Mahlers. No comparison the Mahlers play music the VR 4.5's played hifi.
Have not heard the current VR speakers.

If you luv your mahlers, why are you looking at changing?

Downunder,

Care to explain youir remark that, "the Mahlers play music the VR 4.5's played hifi."

I haven't spent much time with the 4.5s, but I have the 4jr speakers, not yet fully broken in or set up, and I am very impressesd with how they present classical music to this regular concert-goer.

Melm, In my system the VS 4.5's could never really get any deep bass and the midrange / treble was very trasparent but ultimately fatiguing - much like hifi.
The mahlers just sounded better.

"02-07-06: Downunder
Melm, In my system the VS 4.5's could never really get any deep bass and the midrange / treble was very trasparent but ultimately fatiguing - much like hifi.
The mahlers just sounded better."

You should have read the manual on how to set them up. They have tramendously tight base and fatiguing is not what you get from them unless the rest of your system is very weak. They can't make up for weak system.