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Nonsense, if I understand what you are saying.

Posted by jsm (A) on May 7, 2007 at 11:31:15

In Reply to: I think Vandy's are wonderful for analog, too sensitive for digital. NT posted by jdaniel on May 7, 2007 at 09:42:08:

I assume you mean by "sensitive" too revealing, too sensitive to fine details. It is a comon myth that the better the system, the more revealing it is of faults of recordings, the less enjoyable those poorer recordings sound. I don't agree at all. Why should the faults or limitations of your speakers define the limits of the system rather than the recordings or something else in the system? I have found that the better my system has become, the more I enjoy all recordings, even poor ones. Sure, I may hear the "faults" of poorer recordings better, but I hear what's good about them better, too, and that wins. I have Vandersteen 5s and think they are the best speakers for vinyl AND digital I have ever owned. They do reveal the shortcomings of any upstream components in a system, and many CD players have serious shortcomings that are obvious on these speakers. Maybe that is what you are referring to. But I find many cartridges, amps, and phono stages have shortcomings that are easiier to hear with these speakers as well. Speakers like these sound increasingly better, or rather, music sounds better, as all the components are upgraded. I find my Ayre CX-7e an excellent match for the 5s, and well-recorded CDs are a real pleasure to listen to. But even Schnabel playing Beethoven sonatas on early 30's recordings sounds better on the 5s than I have ever heard them before.

I will agree with another interpretation of your comment. There is little point in getting speakers as fine as these if your upstream components are so poor as to preclude them being able to show at all what they can do.

Joe

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