Vandersteen 2wq with two way monitors

I have tried it with a couple of speakers with limited bass like Spica TC50's and LS3/5a's. It never sounded right. The 2WQ works best with a more full range speaker.

Jimburger, where are you getting this info about using the "customary 1" setting below input impedance? I just wonder how this sort of folk lore gets started. I see now how it gets spread around and then is accepted as truth if it gets repeated enough times. Use the setting that sounds best. There is no "customary" setting. It is most likley that if your speakers are for the most part full range and roughly the same sensitivity of Vandersteen 2's or 3's the the setting that is the same as you input impedance will offer the least colored sound.

Jimburger, that is interesting stuff. I'll look at my manual and see what it says. My dealer told me a while back that the "procedure" was to find the setting on the WX-2 that sounded best and when oddering fixed X-2 filters to buy them "one step below". This is total nonsense.I wasted my money using his advice and then needed to sell the filters he had me buy ay a loss so I could replace them with the filters that were of the same value as what I had determined sounded best on the WX-2. Even the dealers have been confused by some of the way this stuff in the manuals has been worded.

You are right that the lower input value filters will warm up the bottom end and this is also needed when using spekers of higher sensitivity than about 90db. There comes a point where the sensitivity of the mains can be too high for the 2Wq to work due to not enough output to cut it.