Boston Acoustics VR-M60

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General speaker questions for audio and home theater.

I had the good fortune to nab a very nice pair of these from Craigslist a few weeks ago for around 300 bucks. I compared these closely to several fine mini-monitors around 1990 (IIRC) and felt, at the time, that only the Sonus Faber and B&W Silver Signatures were more beautiful but that I could live with the VRMs, price considered.

Several amplifiers passed through here paired with them in the past weeks and I really liked an old Carver TFM-45; its warmth seemed to make them sound very smooth, with great bass. A small room should only need 100w/ch or so though and another Craigslist treasure popped up, a Pass-designed Adcom GFA-5200. A great-sounding, really potent little amp with excellent woofer control rated at 50wpc but packing what looks like a 400w, or so, toroidal power transformer.

The Bostons and Adcom have worked out to be a marriage made in heaven. In the bedroom system, guitars sound like they're right there, voices sound like they're exactly the right size, nothing sounds "shouty," boxy or harsh. Loud electric jazz and rock get a little muddled in the midrange when played at enjoyable levels, but its a reasonable tradeoff.

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Topic - Boston Acoustics VR-M60 - mr.bear 23:15:39 02/08/15 (1)

RE: Boston Acoustics VR-M60 - rrsands 05:14:21 02/10/15 (0)

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