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Vandersteen 5A.

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In Reply to: RE: Recorded-Music Listening Room for Liberal-Arts College: Speaker Choices posted by John Marks on October 04, 2007 at 15:41:42

I have heard many of the speakers mentioned in this thread. Most of them are extremely impressive. That's their problem. They are very impressive and sound like great speakers, not like great music. The Vandersteen 5As are flat to within 2 db from 20 Hz to well beyond 20Khz, yet people call them and other Vandersteen models like the 3A (just about equally flat at high frequencies) "rolled-off" or veiled. They are not. They just don't sound like a lot of top-end "hi-fi" speakers. They are extremely neutral and extremely musical, having very low distortion and high transparency. If I were putting in a music listening system for a college, I would not strive for a system that was impressive, but for one that disappeared, that made the listeners forget about the system and become totally engrossed with the music. Most of the speakers in this thread won't do thatextremely well, but could be very impressive in their effortless, large sound output. Having been at this for more than 40 years and having heard many hundreds of speakers, I have heard very few that actually sound like live, acoustical music, the kind I hear at a live concert, and the 5As are among those. They are least worth your consideration. Maybe they are better than you need, though.

Joe

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What I would have said, but of course I own them...but... - Steve Parry 16:48:29 10/08/07 (0)

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