I sold my Jr's on here about a month ago. I sold them for a few reasons:
1. Though the bass was deep and very present, the transmission line arrangement has less slam than I hoped on rock and some jazz.
2. The rear ambience tweeter drove me nuts. With it turned off the speakers sound very warm and musical but lack life and air. With it turned up to around 4 the speakers opened up, but also could be gratingly bright on some material which then made me go turn it down. Too fiddly for me as I am by nature a tweaker like most people on here.
3. For $4000 speakers they are extremely revealing, and in demos at CES they sounded best with high $$ tube electronics from VAC. If your electronics or cables are in any way non-synergistic you will have some work to do.
4. The soundstage though good in most respects could collapse at higher volumes, and the rear tweeter could push it too far back of plane for my taste depending on setting. There is a very fine line for this between good depth and listening from down a tunnel.
Do not take my comments to mean I do not like the speakers, I have heard them sound amazing in some systems and rooms, and for $4000 they are hard to beat. In my room and system unfortunately our relationship was short. I replaced them with speakers that sell for roughly twice as much used, and for around $2750-$3000 used there probably isn't much that will beat them unless you can find a pair of Dunlavys, but these also are ruthlessly revealing and need top shelf components and LOTS of space.
On a side note I listened to the VR-4SR at CES this year and I think these may fit my tastes better, more slam and less brightness and a bit more forward perspective from what I could tell, however they are twice as much $$ as the juniors so not as good of value.
As always your results may vary, and if you pick them up used and don't care for them they should be easy to resell as they are very popular right now.
1. Though the bass was deep and very present, the transmission line arrangement has less slam than I hoped on rock and some jazz.
2. The rear ambience tweeter drove me nuts. With it turned off the speakers sound very warm and musical but lack life and air. With it turned up to around 4 the speakers opened up, but also could be gratingly bright on some material which then made me go turn it down. Too fiddly for me as I am by nature a tweaker like most people on here.
3. For $4000 speakers they are extremely revealing, and in demos at CES they sounded best with high $$ tube electronics from VAC. If your electronics or cables are in any way non-synergistic you will have some work to do.
4. The soundstage though good in most respects could collapse at higher volumes, and the rear tweeter could push it too far back of plane for my taste depending on setting. There is a very fine line for this between good depth and listening from down a tunnel.
Do not take my comments to mean I do not like the speakers, I have heard them sound amazing in some systems and rooms, and for $4000 they are hard to beat. In my room and system unfortunately our relationship was short. I replaced them with speakers that sell for roughly twice as much used, and for around $2750-$3000 used there probably isn't much that will beat them unless you can find a pair of Dunlavys, but these also are ruthlessly revealing and need top shelf components and LOTS of space.
On a side note I listened to the VR-4SR at CES this year and I think these may fit my tastes better, more slam and less brightness and a bit more forward perspective from what I could tell, however they are twice as much $$ as the juniors so not as good of value.
As always your results may vary, and if you pick them up used and don't care for them they should be easy to resell as they are very popular right now.