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In Reply to: RE: VPI and Vandersteen introduce amplifiers posted by M3 lover on September 30, 2014 at 10:29:57
This is precisely why we've never made a speaker over the years. Other speaker manufacturers would not be recommending our amps and preamps.
Will I recommend VPI or Vandersteen in the future? I like Harry and Richard, they both have been nice to me, but if I send a customer to them, do you think they might want to try to sell them an amplifier?
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I know there's a lot of guys here that like to stir things up tongue in cheek but let me remind you Vandersteen has been in the amplifier business since 1982 with the powered 2WQ subs, The lower bass section of the Quattro, Five series and Seven as well.
This is no difference here except, instead of an amplified speaker, he has given the customer a choice. Any amplifier can still be used with the Model Seven.
If the customer listens to them and prefers the M7-HPA, he can go for it. Nothing has changed except for having one more option. The M7-HPA has power conditioning internally, very high quality pure silver speaker wire and acoustic isolation built in which is included for 52K
Its a lot of money but brings a lot to the table and the consumer will decide. Vandersteen is no fool and I am sure he gave this a lot of thought and it sure must have cost a lot to develop such a unique amplifier.
JohnnyR Vandy dealer.
That actually makes sense from the maker and dealer perspective.
Still from a consumer perspective it is nice to know what the manufacturer's sonic aesthetic is. For many years I heard Roksan amplifiers connected to "whatever" the dealers happened to sell and I didn't much care for anything they made UNTIL I heard them on Roksan speakers with a Roksan CD player with Roksan Turntable. Perhaps 15 years went by and I said "Hmm so that is what Roksan is about - that is the sound they're after."
Bryston was usually connected to PMC loudspeakers as they shared importers in Canada and the UK - so you could get a pretty good idea that both companies pretty much had the pro monitor PMC/Bryston sound in mind. Some will like it some won't but at least you knew what both of them were after.
And of course there is the other reason - dwindling amplifier sales or dwindling turntable sales may motivate companies to branch out and sell other products in a relatively stiff market.
-but its a good way to continue the dwindling sales.
You are very correct about the politics. I believe Avalon became allied with Jeff Rowland and the sales pf both plummeted. Same thing when CJ bought out Sonographe,: ditto for Spica being bought out by PArasound,
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and at $52K you have nothing to worry about.
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