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RE: Vandersteens fixed, well maybe not!

Posted by Lou S (A) on November 23, 2014 at 19:58:56

In Reply to: RE: Vandersteens fixed, well maybe not! posted by RGA on November 23, 2014 at 19:21:33:

Thanks, I bought these because my primary speakers suffered a driver loss that will take about 4 weeks to correct. Vandersteens and I go way back, I used to think they were very good speakers, until I heard better. Then it always bothered me that they were so dull sounding. Anyway, I found a good pair at a fair price before I found anything else interesting, so I bought them, and I was compelled to look over the crossover to see if I noted anything obvious, I found 3 caps in series, and electrolytic, a WIMA, and a WonderCap, thinking that nothing good could come from that, I bypassed them.

As for Sinatra, all my Sinatra CD's are of recent vintage, and all are remasters, the EMI set retails for something like $500 I believe. I have played them for years using the speakers Jim Holtz references here:

http://www.audioasylum.com/cgi/t.mpl?f=speakers&m=184949

I am pretty sure I threw one or more Teflon caps into them as well. The other day I counted the Teflon caps currently in my system and I came up with 6, and 2 Mundorf Silver/Golds, or about $800 in caps, just in the electronics.

Anyway, I have some VERY articulate speakers, and I have played said Sinatra CD on them many times without my ears bleeding. I did have opamps at work that I had never used with my normal system, so I am still unsure if the harshness is from the metal dome tweeters, or the opamps, though I am now leaning towards it being the tweeters as my old standard opamps also sound shrill through the Vandersteens.

I do have nearly if not completely unlistenable CDs, but this just was not one of them. His Capital works have pretty much all been remastered, as have his Reprise works. The Columbia stuff has not. I don't know if that is about ownership, poor quality recording equipment, or what ever, but I have not seen any of it remastered. Sadly the only remastered Sammy Davis Jr. remastering I am aware of was done for the Gibson movie, "What Women Want", which of course I had to buy the sound track of. Not much of a sound track guy, but Sammy had to live again in my house from time to time, so to speak.

I have pretty much ridded my system of splashy, perhaps too much so as I do long for a pair of 12AX7's in the mix, but that is more buttery mids than splashy I suppose.

Anyway, thanks for the feedback.


Best Regards,

Lou

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