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Re: the wait is over check out these new and improved VMPS,

"Spectacular sound--competitive with (or better than) a certain very large system you're familiar with!"

Not in my room :) At least in the opinion of myself and my wife, and audiophile and non-audiophile friends who have heard them both. And amateurish measurements I made of both speaker systems with the same equipment (posted on AudioCircle, email me for direct link) give some objective support of this.

Of course my VMPS didn't have the benefit of your new technology, and who knows... maybe they were off by just a fingernail full of putty or a 1 degree turn of an L-pad :-D

If you are so confident that a VMPS system can compete with the Exotica Grand Reference then why not send a pair of your best to HP so he can do a legitimate comparison ? TAS has favorably reviewed VMPS in the past so there shouldn't be any bad blood there. Given the huge price differential, a favorable review head-to-head with HP's reference could really give your sales a boost.

I'd be particularly interested in what he thinks of the mid-upper bass range, which I would have to say is the single biggest area of improvement. Listening to percussion is a totally different experience going from VMPS to Alon/Nola. Below 350hz those 8" Seas magnesium cones you so hate make some spectacular sound in their expanded array configuration, and Carl Marchisotto has seemlessly (from a listening and measurement standpoint) integrated them with the line arrays of 5" alnico cones and Raven ribbons. I did have to stray from Carl's recommended straight ahead positioning, in my setup adding a little toe achieved excellent time alignment of the outputs of the midrange and tweeter.

Oh, and the Alon sub towers start kicking right where the bass on my two VMPS systems dropped into oblivion.

My current setup sounds quite spectacular. Even more so when I had the amazingly good Blue Circle hybrid amp on them. This winter I'll be choosing between the LAMM and Blue Circle hybrids, ASR Emitter, DarTZeel, and fully rebuilt/modified TacT amps.

Maybe the Alons didn't present well at one or more shows. I heard them at one and was impressed enough to later buy them when I found a pair at a reasonable price. Audio press generally seems to have liked them at the shows too.

Anyway you should come listen for yourself!

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