For Vandersteen owners & lovers: Which other brands do you like?

what a lovely civil and helping thread…warms my heart….maybe just maybe there are great caring humans here after all….

Cast a wandering ear as far and wide as you want to…. i have crossed  oceans to hear gear that interested me. It like music is global. IF you get to California you know where to find me and Treo CT w sub3.

@islandmandan  Good on you and yours…grace peace and happiness . In my younger years i spent a bit of time surf fishing Steelhead on the wild sides of your Island… Paradise….

there is a lot of experience, wisdom and maturity in advice given… most if not all suggestions could certainly lead to musical bliss….. I won’t belabor all the various combinations of Vandy products new and or used that can also get you there…plenty of that going on the owners forum on the Vandy site.

enjoy the journey !

Jim

@russ69 @soix ;-) my absolute best to you…. much Grace in your helping posts….

Cabinet in a cabinet starts w Treo. It’s expensive… The 7 is cabinet in cabinet and a carbon fiber layer. The 1-2-3 aka sock series are too budget constrained to get the lower distortion cabinets, ditto the original sock Quattro. I will mention, ALL the Vandy cabinets are built in house in California…..

The 5 series are massively braced and use a very dense stack w milled cavity for the head assembly. The 5A is as mentioned a fantastic speaker….still today…. probably a bit much in your room… just my $.02.

tomic601 / JIM,

what a lovely civil and helping thread…warms my heart….maybe just maybe there are great caring humans here after all….

I had the EXACT same thought as I re-read the replies.

I do hope to see you in CA, and hope you get together with my pal John. Thanks for all of your advice and input so far.

Best,

PD

i’ve listened to the 2CE model on NAD electronics [the combo was on the darker side] and i’ve listened to my 1CI on a rega brio R [brighter balance but utterly non-harsh]. both DEMAND a larger than average listening room with plenty of breathing space around the speakers to where they are no closer than 3 feet from the rear wall and at least twice that from side walls. put them in any room smaller than that and those speakers tend to sound shouty. if i had at least a 20’ wide and 20’ deep [8’+ ceilings a must] listening room, i’d take my vandies out from storage and give them another listen. they made everything, even sub-par recordings, sound decent enough at least for casual listening in the aforementioned giant room. they had 3D imaging [ultra-narrow sweet spot] in an entry-level price point. then again, my thiel cs.5 speakers will do that in a tiny [14’ wide and deep] room, which is why i listen to the thiel speakers rather than the vandies. plus the thiels throw a much wider image beyond the outside edges of l/r speaker, with more depth.