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Spendor SP 100s and Vandys.

For what it's worth, I owned a pair of SP 100s before I move on to Vandersteen 5s. The 5s are better than the 3As, but the latest version of the 3A Sig, especially if coupled with some 2Wq subwoofers, gets you many of the performance qualities of the 5s (I bought used 5s, not 5As). The step up from the SP 100s was considerable. I listen virtually only to classical music, and after several weeks of listening to the 5s, I re-installed the SP 100s. They sounded congested, even muffled in the lower midrange, and I had the impression that overall the sound had higher levels of distortion. I think the SP 100s are actually very nice speakers in that they do not do an injustice to the timbres of instruments and have a good octave to octave balance, but they are no match for the Vandersteens. The sound from the 5s simply seems to originate in some three-dimensional space, and I really can't tie the origin of the sound to the speakers as hard as I try. The clarity, transparity, and extremely low coloration of the sound is obviously much better than with the SP 100s, and when I had did a comparison of the SP 100s with the 3A Sigs (unfortunetely not in the same room) I had come to similar conclusions.

Joe

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