Vandersteen 7 mark ll or big Kef blades

No Tomic we aren't just selling.  and we do pay attention.  If you notice we don't have your position, we like many different types of loudspeakers nor do we believe that any brand or any technology is intrinsically better than any other.

If you came to our shop and heard our Personas, our Legacys or Kef's we wouldn't tell you one was better than another.

Please tell me which performance sedan is better? A BMW,  Mercedes, Audi, Infiniti, Lexus, Cadillac? 

All are valid choices all have strengths and weaknesses.

Again back to the studio discussion, yes Focal makes studio monitors as does ATC, and Genlec,  please find one studio that uses Vandersteen if the speakers are so acurate you should be able to find studios using them correct?

We do know that a famous record producer uses Legacys and there are a few other studios as well, perfect pistons are perfect aren't they?

Your love of Vandy is commendable and they do make great speakers for some people, you think the reason we like Legacy or Paradigm is because we sell them, no sell them because we like them. 

We have stated our position on Vandy many times before, they aren't our cup of tea, and for the money we have choices we feel are better suited for our values. 

Good luck and enjoy your speakers.

Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ 

Per KEF 652 mm

for the “ ideal soundscape”....

£ 400 direct from KEF.....

Which of course differs from the manual....

which recommends even less....
one hallmark of engineering excellence is following your own advice...
well until you don’t....

i think i will stick by my initial point tweeter at ear height....

Yes your point about tweeter height completely invalidates the entire company. Do you think that perhaps the decision to make the speaker stands a particular height which may be different from the manual is that many listeners may not like a taller stand based on the looks of the combo? 

Sure lets compare facts with facts Kef is a $200-300 million dollar a year company Vandy does probably $10 million a year, lets be generous and say they are $20-30 million dollars a year, do you honestly think that Kef  grew into one of the top loudspeaker companies of all times because they don't make a fantastic products?

Sure Vandy is all about the small guy vs the big boys like B&W, Focal, and KEF right, if you remember all of these companies were started by single men in similar circumstances, and all of these companies have been in business a very long time.  yet these are the three biggest high end speaker manufacturers in the world and all three make all of their own drivers and have continued to evolve their designs and technologies and in some cases radically. 

So please let not mix facts that market share means nothing. 

Market share allows you to develop products which cost $4 million dollars to develop like the Kef Blades, I guess that all of the accolades that Kef has received on their loudspeakers also account for nothing. 

Please stop your arguements that don't hold water. 

The Kef Blades can easily stand up to a pair of Vandy 7's which you prefer is up  to you, however, as we we pointed out before you can build a pretty darn nice system of Kef Blades plus amp, preamp, dac and cables for the $30k plus difference in price between the two loudspeakers.

Good night Tomic enjoy your purly pistonic perfect loudspeakers, we will suffer listening to our $30k Blades or Personas or Legacy Aeris too bad we will be suffering so much with these "inferior" products as we continue to chase our tails.

Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ 

actually I was listening to the Thiels this evening, perhaps you missed that
tomorrow might be the real Quad ESL-63
and the next
the Apogee stage...
and the next modified Cornwalls....

I was selling KEF 105.2 and designing crossovers with an FFT when you were doing what in 1980 ?

you should reread the white paper on the LS 50 and look for intersections w Vandersteen philosophy...there are many...
where they diverge is sacrificing phase accuracy for frequency response...wiring the tweeter out of phase...

you should really bone up on engineering......