Shoe, I'm quite interested in your $1700-more-than-Vandy 2ces...care to share their identity? So over thepat couple of hours, at the request of my wife (also into music listening and gear, I'm a lucky guy), I moved them into the other room and hooked them up to the 400cx with the Taras.
Now I'm depressed. The Vandy 2Ces are more satosfying than my CS6s in this setting. I think part of this has to do with the down sizing we made when we moved to this house in OR from CA in July. We simply don't have the vaulted ceiling and large living room where the Thiels used to shine. But even still, while listening to "Angelsea" from Cat Stevens' Catch Bull At Four on vinyl that I bought when I was in high school in the early 70s, there is more air and instrument definition with the 2Ces than the CS6s. So now I'm in a quandry and am wondering how I went "wrong" three years ago when I traded my Dynaudio 3.0s for the Thiels. I did "audition" the 3a signatures in San Francisco but the dealer wouldn't let me home audition and I just couldn't justify the costs without that ability to check them out in my system in my own space, afterall it is one the seven commandments of Agon is it not to do this before one purchases?
So now I'm thinking, sell the Thiels and the sub (SS2 with passive crossover) and get a pair of 3a sigs for the main room. All this to adjust to a new house. Maybe it's time for a new thread about what choices/adjustments people had to make when they moved to a new location. So, I'm happy and I'm a bit frustrated because these 2ces sound so damn good (they're back in the small room system now (playing Saint Saens piano concerto on CD just beautifully)
Sigh. But all in all happy that sooner or later I was bound to explore and find something better, I just wasn't preapred for the extent of it today. Perhaps all will seem different tomorrow. But Vandy's offer much value for the money, that's for darn sure.
