The VA Hayden Grand does acoustic music very well, and yes, they are polite. To me they sound great when fed with high current SS electronics, with cables that are on the neutral side. If you're using tube amplification you may want to consider not using cables that are on the warm and polite side, IMO.
I feed my pair with SS electronics. Threshold T3i preamp with Threshold T-200 amp, and sometimes with the smaller 60w/ch T-100 amp. Cables are various Tara Labs RSC through out.
The only Totem speakers I ever heard were the Model One, with McCormack Amplification. I thought they sounded better then the VA Hayden Grand.. they also cost more.
I feed my pair with SS electronics. Threshold T3i preamp with Threshold T-200 amp, and sometimes with the smaller 60w/ch T-100 amp. Cables are various Tara Labs RSC through out.
The only Totem speakers I ever heard were the Model One, with McCormack Amplification. I thought they sounded better then the VA Hayden Grand.. they also cost more.