Vandersteen 5a or Eggleston Andra II

Virtually all of your assumptions regarding my listening experiences are wrong, but I don't have the time, energy, or desire to go into it further, this being the last I will comment on this matter. I did, do, and will take issue with your "different league" statement and that is that, in my opinion, but I still believe that very few others, if any, will agree that these two speaker sets are in different leagues.

That's too bad that you aren't willing to take me up on the offer that you originally initiated but does it surprise me? no.

Once again this thread melted into a useless arguement, we get it....some of you love a certain speaker, and some dont agree and love another one......this always turns into a "drunks in a bar" arguemant.
The original poster hasnt been back to post in this thread for nearly 3 weeks, I wonder why?

Mothra,

Ok. I accept that everyone has different tastes and reknown mastering engineers may have odd taste too. Good point. Folllowing one engineer or another may not lead to satisfaction. What do you think is a great speaker then? What is actually in another league? It definitely sounds like you have benefited from hearing many different setups and may be in good position to comment...what was the best or most neutral (or to your liking)?

I take it you don't like Wilsons because you prefer neutral sounding speakers and I agree again with you that they often have a bit of a boost in the bass, which many people like (meaning I don't necessarily see it as a weakness - they are still great speakers).

I bow to your ultimate moral superiority and keen insight Chad, and in all my sobriety, too. hic... I happen to like both speakers, as I noted.

I could not care less what surprises you, Dev. I am only surprised that you continue to insist in your "another league" fallacy. My original "offer", if you want to cal lit that, was the idea of assembling 20 folks for a fair trail comparing the Egglestons and the Vandys and my assertion that few to none would find the Egglestons in "another league" as you continue to asserted. I am game for that at ANY time though, as I thought I made clear above, I am not going to waste my time responding to your fully erroneous assumptions regarding how I and where I heard those speakers. Am I surprised that you didn't understand? no