Vandersteen 2xx - 100,000 units?

The Vandy 2's came out in the early 80's, if I remember correctly. They were my Grail speaker for decades. So, yes, it is possible they made 100K units(which I think means each speaker, not pair) or 50K pairs.
That they are still around after all this time shows how well made they are. I remember the Klipsch from my college days- they were pretty big then. A fellow dorm-mate had the Bose, which I liked-but, after graduating from college, it was plain to see that Richard Vandersteen had truly slayed the dragons- and at an unbelievably low cost.

Yes! this series has been around since the late 70's.
Happy Listening!

The 100K number has been touted for at least since I bought my last pair of 2s in 1995 or so.
I too find it tough to believe since Vandersteen has always had a very
small dealer network, with the average dealer selling a handful of pairs a year of all models.........yet still......when you take it over 40 years, it's not that hard to fathom.....

Can you do better than the 2CE's?  Yes, I wouldn't trade them for what I went to, Revel Studio 2s, nor what I went to from those, Magnepan 3.7s.........but for the money, you can not do better than Vandersteen 2s.....you can try but you won't succeed.....

Couple them with a mid wattage tube integrated and a great source and you will hear something far more musical than 2K EVER buys......

stewart0722 - what do you consider "mid wattage". I have a PrimaLuna Prologue 1 ; 35 watts channel tube amp.

Use a 32 w Line Magnetic 211IA on my 2CE signatures with very satisfactory results. They even thrive on 12 w Triode.  No Difference between that and my Consonance Cyber 800 mono blocks @ 78 w, toss a coin.

These speakers do not need gobs of power, contrary to what people say.
They are not party speakers they do not do loud, that’s it, and no amount of power will make them do loud. Tried all sorts even, 500 w @ 8 ohm doubling to 1000 w @ 4 Class D on mine, Nah, wasting your time.
For loud, I got Cornscala’s.

They play music like nothing much else, that can cost 10x the price.
Properly set up you will pay big bucks to get better.