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RE: still running my Type 2

Posted by Luminator on February 10, 2021 at 21:42:25:

I do not have much meaningful direct experience with Vandersteen and the AQ Type 2, and those were last in the mid-2000s. That said, a better speaker will let you hear more of what's really going on upstream.

In summer '92, friends somehow obtained cassette recordings of Anything Box's "Soldier & Child." I did not obtain a CD (above), until years later. That summer of '92, the raw AQ Type 4 was our speaker cable. We loved how the Type 4 (a) let more of the music through, and (b) had less distortion than our other speaker cables. Today's CV-4 is significantly better than that. If you already like what the Type 2 does, moving up the AQ line will not throw things off. And at the same time, they will, by being more open and resolving, leave more of the music intact.