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VSA now offering speaker cables and interconnects
« on: May 22, 2011, 06:23:54 AM »
I had to send in 1 of my cabinets to Von Schweikert for some warranty work and happened to catch Albert on the phone and he mentioned these. 

It spiked my interest so I am grabbing a pair of the base line speaker cables to be sent back w/ my speaker cabinet when the repair work is done.  I'll report back in after sufficient burn time - I know a lot of people have differing opinions on the quality of cables but I tend to trust these guys, especially with the quality of speakers they produce.

Not sure if I'll put the $$ into the interconnects he recommends, they are close to $1,300 for a 1 meter pair, but I can justify the speaker cable investment.

FYI - if you ever need to send in a cabinet for repairs, remove the buck shot before doing so.  It cost me upwards of $150 to have UPS pack and ship, but I was not going to load back into their wooden cases and shipping via freight liner.
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Re: VSA now offering speaker cables and interconnects
« Reply #1 on: May 22, 2011, 08:02:09 PM »
which speakers do you have?

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Re: VSA now offering speaker cables and interconnects
« Reply #2 on: May 23, 2011, 07:04:13 AM »
I have the VR4 jr's which they have replaced with a new product line.

I can't remember the series but I talked to Albert's son a few weeks ago and he mentioned that he had the new ones and they are an improvement on the jr's.
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Re: VSA now offering speaker cables and interconnects
« Reply #3 on: May 23, 2011, 07:15:30 AM »
the vr4jr replacements are the vr33.  They seem to only be a replacement in terms of price, though, because they're huge.  they also go back to the older vr-4 design with basically all cloth and very little visible wood

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Re: VSA now offering speaker cables and interconnects
« Reply #4 on: May 24, 2011, 05:42:50 AM »
Here is a follow up from on my cable order - I forgot Albert had told me about his discussion w/ the Delphi engineers about building speaker cables for him:

"We will do a perfect job of rebuilding your VR-4 JR speaker system, no worries.  The cables take 3 weeks to build, as Delphi’s small team is swamped with NASA orders at the moment.  They are building wiring harnesses for the International Space Station and are prototyping the new space shuttle harness which will be commissioned in a year or two."
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« Reply #5 on: May 26, 2011, 09:12:01 PM »
still don't know why VSA speakers aren't more popular.  damn these things are nice

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Re: VSA now offering speaker cables and interconnects
« Reply #6 on: May 27, 2011, 07:45:15 AM »
The 1 negative I can say about the juniors is that they were produced in China under VSA quality control.

If I remember correctly, the line above the juniors was the cut off point for being manufactured in the US.

I mention this b/c the foam insert inside the bass trap on 1 of my speakers had started to fall apart. 

They told me they had never seen this before, but I take it a quality control issue.

The customer service has been fantastic since day 1 of contacting them.
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Re: VSA now offering speaker cables and interconnects
« Reply #7 on: May 27, 2011, 10:41:14 AM »
I think you have to look at the competition at that price point to see why they arent more popular.   whats the price range?
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« Reply #8 on: May 27, 2011, 10:16:42 PM »
you have to spend a lot more on the competition's speakers to get similar performance in my experience

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Re: VSA now offering speaker cables and interconnects
« Reply #9 on: May 27, 2011, 11:32:43 PM »
whats the price range?
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Re: VSA now offering speaker cables and interconnects
« Reply #10 on: May 28, 2011, 05:39:55 AM »
the bottom of their price range used to be around ~1000 new for a pair of VR-1's (I got mine for $600-700 used).  But some time ago, they dropped their "lower end" models.  I think their least expensive speakers now are in the $3000 - 4000 range (although I could be wrong about that).  Their most expensive speakers are over $100,000 for a pair, if I remember correctly.

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Re: VSA now offering speaker cables and interconnects
« Reply #11 on: May 28, 2011, 08:24:53 AM »
I shopped around for a lot of speakers before I decided on the 4jr's.

I have a tube pre and tube mono blocks and they fantastic.

It's not the greatest set up for live music, because it exposes the flaws of a recording that has not been EQ'd.

I'm adding a phono stage and turntable this month and I can't wait to hear how all of it comes together.
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« Reply #12 on: May 28, 2011, 10:56:58 AM »
i still haven't heard anything for the same price as the vr-2 that sounds better.  the 4jrs were great for their price at the time

the vr-33 are supposedly monsters (though they already look like monsters in terms of size)

the unifield 3 was named an editors choice for speakers $5k - $15k
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« Reply #13 on: May 28, 2011, 12:57:31 PM »
well maybe the no long carried models compete, but as to what is available on the market now in the range they offer the competition is stiff.  I rarely hear them brought up except in circles here.  I will look for them at RMAF this yr, they show at that fest right?
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Re: VSA now offering speaker cables and interconnects
« Reply #14 on: May 28, 2011, 03:05:10 PM »
My gen I VR4's are an amazing speaker and were an amazing value used.  And I'm coming from Martin Logan CLSs, so my exptectations are high, expecially for a big speaker.

 

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