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  Good amp match for vinatge Vandersteen 2C's?
I recently bought a pair of these in great condition. I'm finding the treble a little on the soft/warm side. Any amp suggestions that will help balance out the sound? I'm thinking Bryston.
Robertsong  (Threads | Answers | This Thread)

03-29-12
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03-30-12   I find them soft as well, solid state seems like the easy an ...   Mechans

03-30-12   Mccormack!   Unsound

03-30-12   I'm using a krell kst 100 with my vandersteen 2's. it doesn' ...   Digepix

03-30-12   Thanks for the krell suggestion. will definitely look into t ...   Robertsong

03-30-12   When stereophile reviewed the 2c's back in 1987 they used a ...   Digepix

04-01-12   Krell does bass better than anything else. however, i don't ...   Rrog

04-01-12   Rm10, match made in heaven. buy one used. some previous comm ...   Mikirob

04-02-12   Hi. what's an rm10? who makes it? i assume the preamp in a c ...   Robertsong

04-02-12   Vandersteen's like tubes. magic combination would be a musi ...   Stewart0722

04-02-12   The music reference rm 10 is an small unique and capable am ...   Audioconnection

04-03-12   I've owned the 2and 3s, as well as the rm10s, but never toge ...   Pubul57

04-03-12   Johnny, are you guys the audioconnection in nj? do you have ...   Robertsong

04-03-12   For the people who mentioned mccormack, why does this brand ...   Robertsong

04-03-12   Because the mccormack's tight, punchy bass compensates for t ...   Unsound

04-05-12   I have vandersteen 2ce signatures (and used to have 2ce's). ...   Countryjazz2

04-05-12   Getting a little off topic here, but how do the latest sig i ...   Robertsong

04-05-12   Anybody think 80's threshold pre/power would work as well as ...   Robertsong

04-05-12   I would not take anyone's description of the current signatu ...   Pubul57

04-06-12   My experience in comparing the signatures to the 2 ce's i us ...   Countryjazz2

04-06-12   The thresholds should work nicely. imho, the sound of the va ...   Unsound

04-06-12   I recently upgraded my vandersteen 2c(1987) to the new vande ...   Exocet954

04-06-12   Huge thanks everybody.   Robertsong

04-07-12   Belles & vandersteen a classic combo. audio research classic ...   Pipedream

04-08-12   Personally, i think that i'd go the other way here: the sof ...   Martykl

04-08-12   this exactly why i want to hear the sig ii's. i think just ...   Robertsong

04-09-12   Current vandersteen 2 sig 2's mated with quicksilver amps is ...   Exocet954

04-09-12: Atmasphere
The first time I heard the 2C was with a very early set of our amps. They were revealing and musical- no troubles making bass either. We did several shows with Vandersteen speakers, using our smaller amps. One time Richard came into our room to check it out; he commented that our sound was better than what he was getting in his room, which was playing McCormack if memory serves. Both rooms had Sound Anchor stands for the speakers.

So if our little M-60 can drive them, they are an easy load and definitely do favor tubes. But they do have an impedance curve that allows transistors as well.

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04-09-12   I'm not sure why, but it sometimes seems that some folks thi ...   Pubul57

04-10-12   Rather than the load, i think the sonic signature of the van ...   Unsound

04-10-12   Ah, i do miss the audiogon edit function! another thing to c ...   Unsound

04-11-12   If anyone knows vandersteens it's johnny r from audio connec ...   Mikirob

04-11-12   Agree with everything you said about john rutan.   Pubul57

05-11-12   As an earlier poster mentioned, many people buy used vanders ...   Wellers73

05-11-12   I am driving my vandersteen 2ce's in my secondary system wit ...   Stereo5

05-11-12   Wellers73, forget the integrated, check this out: http://ap ...   Unsound

08-03-12   If it's not too late to chime in, i am running a second syst ...   Ironhardware

08-06-12   I have the vandersteen 2ce sig 2 driven by the vintage mcint ...   Miketuason


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