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This was a lot of help! Thanks!

I can relate to that they seem to be pretty power hungry despite their high-efficiency if they are like the DB99.The Audio Note Es I have are around 95-96db but they can go louder,cleaner and punchier than the DB99(98-99db) could with the same small SET amps.

The bass of VR4 is maybe the coolest bass I've ever heard from a hifi speaker when they get enough power and enough room around them to breath properly,otherwise it has a tendency to overpower rooms and sounding kind of wooly and slow.But at its best its very tuneful,with definition,punch,transparency yet a kind of warmth in a way I rarely hear in modern speakers.Its more like the way a Altec 416 works, open,warm and high definition bass in the Altec 825/828,but the VR4 bass also has real earthquake bass that the Altecs can't touch!
The Audio Note alnico woofer is maybe even cooler in the Es IN CORNERS,especially on low volumes,but when it starts to get really loud its hard for a driver that should deliver the bass as well as up to around 2.2kHz to do both clean mids and bass,but I'd say that even when played loud they do an extraordinay good job.
The thing is I want to be able to play even louder than this at times! and I know VS can do that in a way I like.

I guess you have heard Audio Note gear,but if you haven't you really should check out their speakers if you have 2 corners and a small to medium room.The kit 03 is in my opinion very much speaker for the money.Also their DACs are fantastic musical in my view,and the DAC kit 1.1 is a little giant if one like to build stuff.

Just one last questione ;-) Do you have the feeling that the VR5SE as well puts more shine to the faults in really bad recordings than the VR4HSE,meaning that the music on those records become less enjoyable through VR5SE than when played through the VR4HSE?

I think I'm leaning towards a used pair of one of the VR4 versions and use one of my favourite 60-70 watt tube amps on the top and a juicy good sounding transistor amp with volume adjustment on the bass!
And I'm surely gonna keep my Es as well:-)

Thank you very much for the help Quint!


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