Hey Y'all,
What's up Moe, it was very nice meeting you at the show. I'm glad to hear you enjoyed it. I'm in agreement with Moemoney, the VR4jrs showed themselves very well although my wife and I found the sound to be a bit forward. I also felt the sound to be a bit labored in the lower register. I do not know which piece, or if it was the combo, that was responsible for this, so I will not speculate. Now the SRs were a different story. They were smooth and effortless and the bass was deep and fast. Of course, using a $19K tube amp will do that for most any speaker, but this set up did sound just right to the wife and I. I spent some time after the demo outside the room speaking with Kevin Hayes of VAC and he is a wonderful man. I would have never guessed he was an audio designer if I had not been introduced to him. He seemed like such a humble, gentle man. He mentioned about the more affordable VAC Avatar Super intergrated and that at $6500 it was about 90% of the performance of the amp in the room and would have no problem driving the SRs. I think this combo will be my next audio purchase. I wonder what the JRs would have sounded like with the VAC powering them?.........John
What's up Moe, it was very nice meeting you at the show. I'm glad to hear you enjoyed it. I'm in agreement with Moemoney, the VR4jrs showed themselves very well although my wife and I found the sound to be a bit forward. I also felt the sound to be a bit labored in the lower register. I do not know which piece, or if it was the combo, that was responsible for this, so I will not speculate. Now the SRs were a different story. They were smooth and effortless and the bass was deep and fast. Of course, using a $19K tube amp will do that for most any speaker, but this set up did sound just right to the wife and I. I spent some time after the demo outside the room speaking with Kevin Hayes of VAC and he is a wonderful man. I would have never guessed he was an audio designer if I had not been introduced to him. He seemed like such a humble, gentle man. He mentioned about the more affordable VAC Avatar Super intergrated and that at $6500 it was about 90% of the performance of the amp in the room and would have no problem driving the SRs. I think this combo will be my next audio purchase. I wonder what the JRs would have sounded like with the VAC powering them?.........John