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Some of you know by an earlier post that I have just taken delivery of new Vandy Quatros, which were replacing a pair of Thiel 2.4s I've had since 2003. Yesterday, my dealer delivered the speakers and spent several hours tuning the speakers to the room, setting the low frequency response and the bass characteristics. Essentially, with various reference source materials, the speakers disappear. We used my monowired Cardas Golden Reference speaker cable with Cardas jumpers. Understanding that the speakers will take 150 hours to break in, they still sounded immensely better than my Thiels right out of the box. Initial impressions are that they sound fuller, wider soundstage and pinpoint imaging. Instruments seem to occupy a discrete space in the soundstage. Whereas with the Thiels, the instruments and vocals existed in a kind of blended space, the Quatros produced more air and space around every component of the musical source. It was startling to the point that musical passages I know very well sounded vastly different over my memory. Low level detail was also deep and very revealing. Ignorance is bliss, but in this case, I know now what I've been missing from my listening experience with the Thiels, because the Quatros were truthful. I would describe the speakers as honest. The vocals are explosive. They jump out from the soundstage. I now know what laid back means. Because these speakers are not laid back at all, but not in an unrealistic way. The Thiels I now categorize as laid back in comparison. Clearly, I have made the right choice here after long deliberative process.I understand that the Quatros sound good out of the box, but go through weird stages in the first 150 hours, before they settle in to their true sound. I will be burning these in over the next two weeks and report back to you.
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Great that you are enjoying the music more.
Biwiring opens the soundstage even further. Giving everything a bit more mellow and deeper perspective. I've biwired a lot of speakers, but none had the same impact the Vandy's did. My wife comments almost everytime she listens about the inner detail of things she has never heard before. I love it.
Looking forward to your reports, I see Quatro's in my future.
That the Quatro's are just a combination of the #a's and the 2qw subwoofers?
I thought they were more than that.
I made that same comment to Richard, and he did not seem to particulary like it. The crossover is much more refined, and the cabinet is better. My 3a sigs cannot hang an imagine out there in space like i have heard from the Quatros.
Not "just" but a combination performance wise of the two in one enclosure plus the 11 band bass equalization, although he says the 3A Sig/twin 2Wq combo would better fill very large rooms.Vandersteen's comments in "technical information" explain how the Quatro's enclosure is more inert than the 3A Sig and the six inch driver is "faster" that the 3A's eight inch driver.
Cheers
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