I have fairly large baffle, monkey coffin speakers and to my ears, they absolutely trounce most of the narrow baffle towers I've owned/auditioned. They also image better than the Maggie's I had for a time.
Vandersteen 3A Sigs vs Klipsch Forte III
I'd like to get input on a comparison of both of these speakers. I have not heard them. No dealers in my area. I realize it may be an apples to oranges match up to many but want to hear the pros and cons of both. Haters welcome!! I'll be driving them with a Mac 6200 integrated. 75w into 8 ohms and 100w into 4 ohms. Room is 27x18x10h. I listen to all music. Some vinyl. Appreciate moderate base, clarity in vocals, imaging, and like the speakers to "disappear". Thoughts?
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Heardthat... I had a pair of Vandy 2-somethings a pretty good while ago so I was relatively sure these would be at least as good. The Bluebook average is around $2200 and I paid $1500 for these - a good deal overall. They’re replacing my Maggie 1.7i’s which I absolutely love, but once again the sheer physicality of these great speakers proves bothersome to me. The price and local pickup clinched the deal for me. Original owner, all the good stuff buyers look for on this site. I emailed Vandersteen to see if I could replace the socks and within a day I got a response. I know they can still service them if need be, but I think they ceased production a while ago. I read with interest here the comment about deadening the tweeters on the Klipsch with damping material, but I wasn’t as into the audiophilia thing then as deep as I am now. Had I known...I might have kept the Epics. As my fave speaker brands may tell you, Thiel, Maggie, Klipsch, I prefer mid and treble resolution above bass. My finickynesa with bass is BAD bass, too many speakers new and old are colored and false which sucks the life out of the music imho. |
Since the spatial info is encoded in the signal, somebody walk me thru the physics of how a big baffle improves the image ? you do get the bounce off the panel and the back wall is 100% distortion.... but have at it, math gets extra credit the same applies to focusing energy with a horn, ain’t nothing free..... remember, I own horns, listen to them every day, I can assure you depth of image is not on my list of things they do well.... i will I’ll accept the homework assignment to go in and put a constrained layer damping treatment on the horn body, |
tomic601"Since the spatial info is encoded in the signal, somebody walk me thru the physics of how a big baffle improves the image ? you do get the bounce off the panel and the back wall is 100% distortion...." No it is not 100% distortion because recordings are made, mixed and mastered to be played over a loudspeaker in some kind of room except lousy recordings that are made to be played in a car although I am not sure that is common practice in the industry today. |
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