Vandersteen Forum

Restore them to their original condition and then decide.
Vandersteens need a lot of power, by the way. Very sensitive to room placement.

I've had 2CE, 3A and now have Model 5s which are breathtaking, according to most people. And me. 
I called Vandersteen with a question about replacing the batteries in my crossovers and I was told someone would call me back. About 45  minutes later, Richard Vandersteen called me. I was thrilled.

Vandersteen speakers have a sound. I love it. Some people don't. That's why they make different speakers. It's all good. 

Have fun!

As a public service announcement:

Pretty much any driver in a Vandersteen speaker built since 1977 can be rebuilt or replaced by contacting the factory in Hanford CA. There are a few exceptions to this, the model 4 ( note NOT the same as Quattro ! ) , and the custom matched drivers in Treo and up. Treo and up definitely require a call to factory. For a Model 2, as was the DIRECT input given by the inventor, “send the suspect driver in w RMA form, and we can rebuild it.”

Lets also take a moment to clear up some factual errors;

Yes, Richard is extensively involved in designing elements of drivers, including many unique drivers partially fabricated in CA by Vandersteen Audio. He ( not Scanspeak, etc ) holds the Vandersteen unique patents. For fun have a look at the Vandy website, the 5A and 7 mk2 use a Vandersteen designed push pull titanium subwoofer driver, lots of tricks there… Vandy owns the tooling to produce it.

Hopefully all are enjoying the music and beating the heat !

back to my day job improving Quantum computing…. well, for a few hours a week…anyway….

thanks jim, well said, well timed comment... 

 

Lets also take a moment to clear up some factual errors;

I’m unsure whether the OP cares about facts or factual errors.

Yes, Richard is extensively involved in designing elements of drivers, including many unique drivers partially fabricated in CA by Vandersteen Audio. He ( not Scanspeak, etc ) holds the Vandersteen unique patents. For fun have a look at the Vandy website, the 5A and 7 mk2 use a Vandersteen designed push pull titanium subwoofer driver, lots of tricks there… Vandy owns the tooling to produce it.

The OP was stating how easy it would be stuff his drivers in there, and end up with a better speaker

And as I recall RV told him it is a free country and if he wanted to make better speakers he was free to do so.

So I am doubting that the OP is overly enthusiastic about sticking to facts.

Every second 10,000 sine waves are arriving to your ear That is 29,979, 245, 800,000 nanometers in a vacuum.

I hate to be another bearer of facts, but light travels at ~3^8 meters/second.
Giving all the significant digits of resolution and precision is great… but let’s dumb it down to approximations.
- Light travels about 1 foot per nanosecond.

However sound is known to travel only at the speed of sound... which is not the same as the speed of light.

Sound travels about 1 foot per millisecond in air… so it is a million times slower than light, and sound also doesn’t travel well in a vacuum.

I believe that using the correct speed of sound may be an important concept for designing speakers, or improving upon your model 2 speakers.

(Maybe the 2C has the C part referring to the speed of light?)

Just wanted to mention that YouTuber Steve Gutenberg said he'll be reviewing some Vandersteen speakers (didn't say which ones) later this year. Should be interesting. 

He mentioned that he liked previous ones and has known the owner for years and years and years.