Let's face it, not everyone is sensitive to time and phase correct speakers.
Yeah Bob,
I am not 100% sure that I am either, but maybe I am…and that is why I ended up with them?
Vandersteen Speakers.. Are All Other Speaker Makers Doing It Wrong ?
Never listened to Vandersteen speakers but I will go listen to them now
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A lot of people think so. It just depends on what is important to you. I'm never selling my Thiels. I can't be sure that I like them because of the time/phase coherence but I have no interest in changing. There's a lot of discussion of this on the Thiel thread. The theory is that when the wave gets to you in its correct form your brain doesn't have to do a bunch of work to fix the distorted signal, and you can just relax and enjoy. |
I don't think Mr. Vandersteen even remotely implied his speakers are the only ones "correctly" done. He knew late Jim Thiel and John Dunlavy also designed speakers with the same philosophy. When I started this hobby, I auditioned Vandersteen 2Ce and Thiel CS 2 2 among several other brands. Frankly, I didn't have to pull my hair off to settle on Thiel 2 2 and I could have easily chosen 2Ce as well. Tie breaker was Thiels has a cabinet and I didn't feel comfortable handling a speaker without a cabinet. I like to take this moment to Thank my local dealers in Denver area including Soundings, Listen Up, etc. I was also fortunate to visit Dunlavy Audio Labs in Colorado Springs and those speakers were really well done and way out of my price range 🤣. Again, the late John Dunlavy followed a similar philosophy as Richard Vandersteen and he was also into measurements. He emphasized that a speaker should meet all the measurements first and rest follows afterwards. Time/phase corrected speakers are not easy to design and needs careful balance of science and art and in this case music.
I couldn't have said it any better.
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