I guess I'm gonna be the outlier here!
I bought my Vandersteen 2Cs about 25 years ago at a local stereo shop. Had many satisfied years listening through them. Then RV brought out the Model 3s. Met RV at the Stereoshoppe in Selinsgrove, PA as he launched his newest design. I was seduced by the considerable jump in dynamics with the 3s and bought them. After several years, RV came out with the 3A and away my speakers went to Hanford, CA for the upgrade. Richard significantly tamed the high end in that incarnation of the model 3. Several more years passed and then the 3A Signature was offered. Another trip for the 3s to Hanford. I enjoyed the 3A Sigs. until June of 2016. After reading much about the new Treos and then the Treo CT I decided to take the leap to the Treo CTs sight unseen and unheard.
Why? Our neck of the woods, which at one time had three fine dealerships now had none at all. None. Because of my 30+ years with Vandersteen speakers, and the experience with the upgrades to the model 3s, seeing where RV priced the Treo CTs at in the totality of his line I had a pretty solid sense of what they would sound like.
Fortunately for me, after making a necessary change in speaker cables to accommodate the sound of the Treos, I am hearing a refinement to music that I really didn't know was possible before.
As so often happens, once you realize an improvement on that scale you begin to wonder how much better it could get if you ....
I bought my Vandersteen 2Cs about 25 years ago at a local stereo shop. Had many satisfied years listening through them. Then RV brought out the Model 3s. Met RV at the Stereoshoppe in Selinsgrove, PA as he launched his newest design. I was seduced by the considerable jump in dynamics with the 3s and bought them. After several years, RV came out with the 3A and away my speakers went to Hanford, CA for the upgrade. Richard significantly tamed the high end in that incarnation of the model 3. Several more years passed and then the 3A Signature was offered. Another trip for the 3s to Hanford. I enjoyed the 3A Sigs. until June of 2016. After reading much about the new Treos and then the Treo CT I decided to take the leap to the Treo CTs sight unseen and unheard.
Why? Our neck of the woods, which at one time had three fine dealerships now had none at all. None. Because of my 30+ years with Vandersteen speakers, and the experience with the upgrades to the model 3s, seeing where RV priced the Treo CTs at in the totality of his line I had a pretty solid sense of what they would sound like.
Fortunately for me, after making a necessary change in speaker cables to accommodate the sound of the Treos, I am hearing a refinement to music that I really didn't know was possible before.
As so often happens, once you realize an improvement on that scale you begin to wonder how much better it could get if you ....