Alpinist (Ken) - how is your new system?

Alpinist said:
Thanks Bruce! I'm guessing you've heard them at John's place. He really has them dialed in, in his showroom. Now if I could only convince my wife to let me bring in all those silk trees and plants!

Best,
Ken

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Well,well,well. I see you let the cat out of the bag. I think you made the right decision for sure! The Vandys will help with room challenges you mentioned to me.

Ken, I couldn't be happier for you! They're a destination speaker for sure.

Congrats my friend :congrats:
 
MDP said:
Well,well,well. I see you let the cat out of the bag. I think you made the right decision for sure! The Vandys will help with room challenges you mentioned to me.

Ken, I couldn't be happier for you! They're a destination speaker for sure.

Congrats my friend :congrats:
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Thanks Mark! I think the Vandersteen 7 and Revel Salon 2 move on parallel paths. Both are very transparent, neutral in frequency response and are non-fatiguing in long listening sessions. I'm hoping the Vandy 7's will bring me the sort of contentment you've found with your Salon 2's. I've found in my listening sessions that the Vandy 7's make me want to mine my music collection because everything sounds good, even the lesser recordings. I couldn't believe how involving my Simon & Garnfunkel Greatest Hits CD could be!

Best,
Ken
 
Congrats Ken. I am so excited for you. The Vandy 7's are legendary.

I will be very curious to learn how the Vandys compare to the D3's in the mids and highs once you get them in your room. I have little doubt they will be awe inspiring in the sub 100 hz range compared to the Raidhos given their design but it they excel in the presence region in a direct A/B comparison (same room/electronics etc.) I will be truly impressed!! Keep us posted.
 
FlexibleAudio said:
Congrats Ken. I am so excited for you. The Vandy 7's are legendary.

I will be very curious to learn how the Vandys compare to the D3's in the mids and highs once you get them in your room. I have little doubt they will be awe inspiring in the sub 100 hz range compared to the Raidhos given their design but it they excel in the presence region in a direct A/B comparison (same room/electronics etc.) I will be truly impressed!! Keep us posted.
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Thanks Paul!!! I'm pretty excited about the whole thing. The ability to tune the subwoofers with its 11 band equalizer, overall attenuation and Q adjustment and the rear ceramic tweeters with its attenuation and Q adjustment should really help to integrate the V7 MkII into my listening room. As you know, I've had some WAF challenges with my listening room and acoustic treatments, so adjustability is very important. There's no question that the D-3's offer magical midrange and treble, which will be hard to top on some of my favorite CD's and downloads. I'm listening right now to a Telarc CD and it sounds amazing, Ray Brown - Some of My Best Friends are Piano Players. Terrific recording, truly stellar sounding on the D-3's.

All the best,
Ken
 
Vandersteen is nearly done with my Tungsten Silver Model 7 MkII speakers. They will be shipping them shortly. I should have them in approximately two weeks. I ordered four spade connectors from Kimber for my Kimber Select KS-6063 speaker cables and a set of four KS-9033 jumpers with spade connectors. Pretty exciting!

Best,
Ken
 
Paul,

Thanks for those cool photos! I love the Tungsten Silver color. It's the same as used on the James Bond Aston Martin.

Man, Christmas for both of us very early this year! :D

Ken
 
Congratulations Ken! I saw your speakers posted for sale a while back and for the life of me I couldn't figure out what one could replace those beautiful Raidho D3 with. At the time you were pretty tight lipped as to what you had your eye on. I can't wait to see pictures of your new Vandersteen's Seven Mk II's all cabled up.

~Mike
 
Mgard said:
Congratulations Ken! I saw your speakers posted for sale a while back and for the life of me I couldn't figure out what one could replace those beautiful Raidho D3 with. At the time you were pretty tight lipped as to what you had your eye on. I can't wait to see pictures of your new Vandersteen's Seven Mk II's all cabled up.

~Mike
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Ditto
 
Mgard said:
Congratulations Ken! I saw your speakers posted for sale a while back and for the life of me I couldn't figure out what one could replace those beautiful Raidho D3 with. At the time you were pretty tight lipped as to what you had your eye on. I can't wait to see pictures of your new Vandersteen's Seven Mk II's all cabled up.

~Mike
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Thanks Mike,

The Raidho D-3 are extraordinary sounding loudspeakers and one heckuva great match with my Soulution gear. But once I heard the Vandersteen 7 dialed in, I knew I was hooked and had to have that sound in my listening room. My MkII's are just about ready to be shipped. I'll make sure to post some photos and initial impressions, once they arrive and are hooked up.

Best,
Ken
 
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