Vandersteen 2ci used. Good speaker/bargain?

The best I ever heard the 2ce sigs and the 3a sigs was with ARC tube electronics. This includes over the years many different amplifiers including Threshold SA-1s, the best of the SS and wonderful in their own right, McCormack, Nad, Krell KMA100's, McIntosh MC-60's highly modified, ARC M-100, ARC D-115 MK2 and ARC VT100,(the best). The last, with the VT100 was at a dealer's showroom. The set-up and attention to placement was impeccable and both these speakers sounded the best I've ever heard Vandersteen 2 and 3 models ever including several shows and in my listening room, they were really dialed in. It proved to me, again, how great these speakers are but more importantly their potential relative to the price of admission and the space they will be used in.

Wattnatt, I think that's cute. I didn't realize that SPL measurements were obscure technical jargon. They have been used for most of the last century and are part of the Vandersteen literature. So your beloved Rickie Vandersteen hides his glorious speakers behind obscure technical jargon?

One would think that freqency respose, modulus of impedance plotted against phase angle and freqency, and SPL measurements are the three most basic, and easiest to measure metrics that are applied to loudspeakers. And again, they have been in use for over 50 years.

As far as the ad hominem part of your arguent goes, only a child attacks the messinger when the message is too complex for his little brain to process. Better to ask questions and do a wee bit of reasearch first.

((With the half a dozen different amps I own and various comparisons in real SPL's:
I would say that the manufacturer's specs are actually conservative and that sensitivity is at very least 88db regardless of what stereophile tabloids might publish. It is in their interest and the interests of other advertisers in their publications to diminish what Vandersteen has been able to produce and offer at such a low price!! I use my 2Ci's as a reference regardless of what else I might own. For the price, there is nothing comparable!))

Amen
I brought home many different amps over years to drive
2Ci,CE and Sig 2s most all of them had a picnic driving these speakers to enjoyable levels.

Whats confusing to the meter readers is Box speakers with baffles will reflect their unwanted reflection artifacts as a higher SPL number.
Because the Vandersteens are a baffle less multiple enclosure design, they possess less unwanted reflection firing back on them and then into the SPL measuring Microphone
Also why they disappear so well.
Cheers Johnnyr

Johnny, would you happen to be a Vandersteen dealer perchance?

Yes Audio Connection Has been a Vandersteen dealer for 25 years and own them myself
Best Johnnyr