Vandersteen 2ci used. Good speaker/bargain?

((With the half a dozen different amps I own and various comparisons in real SPL's:
I would say that the manufacturer's specs are actually conservative and that sensitivity is at very least 88db regardless of what stereophile tabloids might publish. It is in their interest and the interests of other advertisers in their publications to diminish what Vandersteen has been able to produce and offer at such a low price!! I use my 2Ci's as a reference regardless of what else I might own. For the price, there is nothing comparable!))

Amen
I brought home many different amps over years to drive
2Ci,CE and Sig 2s most all of them had a picnic driving these speakers to enjoyable levels.

Whats confusing to the meter readers is Box speakers with baffles will reflect their unwanted reflection artifacts as a higher SPL number.
Because the Vandersteens are a baffle less multiple enclosure design, they possess less unwanted reflection firing back on them and then into the SPL measuring Microphone
Also why they disappear so well.
Cheers Johnnyr

Yes Audio Connection Has been a Vandersteen dealer for 25 years and own them myself
Best Johnnyr

Viridian
What part of this do you not get?

Whats confusing to the meter readers is Box speakers with baffles will reflect their unwanted reflection artifacts as a higher SPL number.
Because the Vandersteens are a baffle less multiple enclosure design, they possess less unwanted reflection firing back on them and then into the SPL measuring Microphone

Cheers Johnnyr Vandersteen Dealer

((It's too bad that you have great insight and knowledge to bring to this thread and chose to not identify yourself as a dealer who is financially invested in the product under discussion.))
Hey Veridian
Yes I am a Vandersteen dealer, what are you insinuating?
After selling "boatloads"of these speakers the only time we've had trouble driving them is when someone that"s a hard on hearing!
Cheers JohnnyR