Vandersteen fans

[longbowbbs]

Great! I am looking forward to the event.

[junker]

Can you guys let us know what you learned from him in the event?

[longbowbbs]

Definitely! unless it is a secret handshake...

[miketuason]

Just want to chime in. 4 years ago I used ti live two mile from Richard Vandersteen in Hanford, CA and after talking to him several times, I ended up buying the 2CE Sig II Until now I still have the Sig II driven by my MC 601s and I couldn't ask for anything better at least for now.

[junker]

Except for the 5a carbons...

[longbowbbs]

I am very happy with the 2CE Sigs...The 3A's are physically too large. I do like the Treo's for size and price, but maybe later....

[longbowbbs]

Fun day today at Ultra Fidelis. I stopped in to pick up the stands for my 2CeSig II's. They had a pair of new 2CeSig II hooked up.....To $84,0000 of gear and cables!

So, no reason to let that go to waste. I spent a couple of hours enjoying them.

SME table $17,000
Atlas Cartridge $9500
Audioquest cables $24000
ARC Ref 5 SE $13000
ARC Phono $11,995
ARC Ref 75 $9000

and

The Vandersteen 2Ce Signature II's $2395 + $175 for stands...

I doubt I will ever hear them fronted by so much quality gear.

I have two impressions from this.

1. They sounded fantastic! It is really great to experience perhaps the best performance from a piece of gear.

2. My home system is really close in sound quality for a small fraction of this systems cost.

I am very pleased!

Big thanks to Jon for his consistently wonderful hospitality!

[PlanarSpeakerFan]

Originally Posted by longbowbbs

Fun day today at Ultra Fidelis. I stopped in to pick up the stands for my 2CeSig II's. They had a pair of new 2CeSig II hooked up.....To $84,0000 of gear and cables!

So, no reason to let that go to waste. I spent a couple of hours enjoying them.

SME table $17,000
Atlas Cartridge $9500
Audioquest cables $24000
ARC Ref 5 SE $13000
ARC Phono $11,995
ARC Ref 75 $9000

and

The Vandersteen 2Ce Signature II's $2395 + $175 for stands...

I doubt I will ever hear them fronted by so much quality gear.

I have two impressions from this.

1. They sounded fantastic! It is really great to experience perhaps the best performance from a piece of gear.

2. My home system is really close in sound quality for a small fraction of this systems cost.

I am very pleased!

Big thanks to Jon for his consistently wonderful hospitality!

Sounds like you had a great listening session. I like it when a dealer does this because I also like to hear the maximum potential of a loudspeaker.

Ken

[longbowbbs]

They have always been generous with their time. It is a comfortable place with great gear.

[psyopwak]

I have had the 2CE Sig II's for about two years now. I love the musical sound they make to my ears. Here are the speakers they bested,.. over a six month listening session. Paradigm, B&W, Totem, Magnepan, Focal, Snell, Def Tech, Klipsch, Rega, Martin Logan, KEF. I would say the Magnepan 1.7 came in a close second, but really need the bass panel to go deep.

If I could get the 5As, it would be a no-brainer for me. Ha ha