Which speakers vs Vandersteen 3A sig's in large rm

Stylinlp 38, I'm not sure what you mean by "...stuck with a Tyler Acouistic situation." I will say that both Dunlavy and Meadowlark are out of business.
My recomendations were based on the fact that all designs share major design philosphies with Vandersteen. I should mention that these very design philosphies seem to share the same lack of specific absolute excellence in dynamics. Thats not to say that they are lacking in this area, they just don't excell as well as some other designs that are willing to sacrafice other aspects of sound to give priority to this specific aspect. I have not personally heard the Green Moutain products so I can't comment on them. I have heard just about all the other's products. IMHO, based on your desired criterion, you might be well served by auditioning the Thiels. One caveat about the Thiels; they require top quality amplification and they benefit from a lot of it. Good luck.

Something in the Induction Dynamics line might be worth auditioning. I heard their 3000 dollar monitors a while ago (maybe about a year?) and they sounded excellent. Their crossover design is proprietary and described as a "brick wall", i.e., quite the opposite of a first order design and more similar to Thiel, if I'm not mistaken (Unsound may be able to chime in with any clarifications about the Thiels' crossover design). Anyway, the Induction Dynamics monitors that I heard did NOT seem to have a constricted soundstage at all, and tonality, balance and detail were very good as well. They were quite strikingly good.

The company states that the drivers are "inductively coupled" (or something like that), whatever that means. I THINK it may mean that there's some compensatory mechanism to couple the drivers' timing so as to maintain (phase?) coherence, but that's JUST a GUESS.

This company is not yet a well known high end contender, but may become known as such in the next few years, if the rest of their product line sounds anything like the entry level monitors that I heard, and if people get the chance to hear them. Time will tell.
-Bill

More information is needed to determine why you are not achieving good sound. What amplifier are you using? The Vandersteen 3A Sig is a very capable and revealing loudspeaker that requires a rather powerful high-quality amplifier that is good into 4 ohms.

Also, source components, preamplifiers and placement can have a significant effect. Try improving the bass by following Vandersteen's setup procedure in the 3A manual. That will help to insure that the bass in your room is as neutral as possible.

Lastly, as mentioned by a couple of previous posts, the system can be improved dramatically in the bass (and in the mids and highs) by adding Vandersteen's 2Wq subwoofers.

Dave
Ultra Fidelis

Talon Audio speakers come to mind. Fast, detailed, musical, very deep bass, very dynamic and did i mention fast!

Happy Lisening.

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