In Reply to: Why do my Vandersteen's sound... posted by Lagav on December 19, 2024 at 17:49:57:
You've got a lot of responses - and I'm afraid I haven't read them all.
But the first thing that struck my mind was ... your tube amp doesn't have the grunt which your V's need to have delivered to them, to play orchestral music well.
Because there's so much more 'body' to the sound of an orchestra than most jazz ensembles; if your V's sound great with this lesser 'body' ... shirley, lack of sufficient amp grunt is the cause of the "compressed & choked" sound you hear with orchestral music?
Can you borrow, say, a Sanders Magtech to see how your V's sound with that? Or, if you hate sand amps ... an Audio Research 250SE?
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