In Reply to: Are you sure you heard the 40's? posted by PabloP on February 7, 2006 at 16:57:49:
Absolutely, 100% sure they were the 40s. I was getting near buying them, as I was down to two choices. As I said, the electronics were a bit suspect, though they were very high end. The room was heavily carpeted and draped, so it wasn't the room. As I said above, I could hear tape hiss very prominently on a recording where it was quite low on the vast majority of other speakers I had heard. However, I never make any major decisions based on one listening in one place. I would have not crossed them off my list based on this one hearing. I was also bothered by the bass boom in the 40s, reported by other respected listeners, and finally, all things considered, I felt the price was a bit steep. Still, I did go to some considerable effort to hear them one more time on a trip to London, but signals got crossed, and it didn't happen. Two days ago I moved on from my Spendor SP 100s to Vandersteen 5s, and I am happy to be done with ported speakers.Joe
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- Re: Are you sure you heard the 40's? - jsm 02/7/0620:23:03 02/7/06 (3)
- The bass - PabloP 06:48:09 02/8/06 (2)
- I'm not sure I believe that. - jsm 11:21:23 02/8/06 (0)
- Re: The bass - Bob Neill 09:16:55 02/8/06 (0)