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Early Impressions: New Vandy Quatros Arrived Yesterday (Long)

Posted by nighteyes0 (A) on May 4, 2007 at 07:52:25

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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