Vandersteen 5a owners manual

Happy Listening audioconnection jjss49 - thanks for providing a link to the manual. Looks like the same on I already have. When doing in-room compensation and your amps input impedance are truly verified and performed correctly, also in the Manual the answer is obvious in clarity. Find a decent pair of affordable to you Bi-Wire the same gauge on treble and bass I use AQ set up correctly will make question 7 go away. Best JohnnyR. I have done everything stated above. A high Q produces a full, warm bass with more energy in the most audible bass range.

Dealing with Room Interactions This, however, is only part of the story in dealing with most critical problems in room interaction. Setting the equalizer is best done by your dealer, although the instructions in the Model 5A Carbon handbook give you a reasonable chance of doing it yourself using warble tones or a Vandersteen test disc and the analog version of the RadioShack SPL meter. Getting this right, however, requires experience in dealing with a wide range of rooms and knowing when to stop.

A good dealer will have this experience. It will take you and a friend several tries at a minimum to get it right, and the controls do not need to be readjusted unless you change speaker placement or listening position. The goal is not to achieve perfectly flat response as indicated by the SPL meter. Rather, you want to bring down the highest peaks and bring up the lowest troughs within a 3—5dB range.

Once the 5A Carbon is properly set up, however, I believe you will hear bass of a quality most audiophiles have never heard in their homes regardless of cost, and you will have a remarkable ability to put your speaker in the best listening position for the midrange, treble, and soundstage.

The proper adjustment of these eleven equalizer settings really pays off in sound quality. Getting rid of the worst dips and peaks in bass response makes instruments sound far more natural and means you can really hear the bottom organ notes and synthesizer as well as every nuance in electric guitar. There is no hint of one-note bass, a dominant turning point in bass response, or bass smear.

The soundstage is more natural in the lower midrange and upper bass, and more coherent. The 5A Carbon has a nominal 8-ohm impedance, and the use of a powered subwoofer makes it easy to drive—even with amps in the 40W range. A pair of Pass XA I should note, however, that the Vandersteen 5A Carbons show their best bi-wired, and do use unique terminal strips that require relatively small spade lugs.

Speaking as a reviewer, I have rarely found a speaker that made it easier to hear the differences in cartridges, digital front ends, electronics, and the production values in recordings without favoring any one approach over the others.

I was recently comparing the top-ofthe- line Soundsmith and Grado cartridges with digital recordings of the same performance, and it was striking how clearly the differences came through in ways where the musical advantage of each cartridge became clearer, along with the mix of differences and similarities in analog-versus-digital reproduction. I do want to stress, however, that this remains an extraordinarily competitive field and no one approach to speaker design is correct or best.

I use a pair of Quad s and a pair of Legacy Focus SEs as additional references and each has its own balance of special merits. The new Magnepan 3.

So do the less expensive models in the Vandersteen line, as well as those from too many other manufacturers to list. The hunt goes on….

In each Model Seven, Vandersteen integrates an ultra-high-current watt amplifier with power-factor-corrected, regulated power supply. Linear watt linear amplifier with a power-factor-corrected switching power supply.

But the Model 7 really excelled in resolving very low-level details such as reverb decay and the sense of space around instruments. It was developed and refined by twenty years of intensive research into loudspeaker design and multiple speaker integration. Its innovative engineering, superior components and quality construction provide true high fidelity performance. Vandersteen Model 2W series subwoofers augment the deep bass response of a stereo or home theater speaker system. They provide the power, dynamics and low-frequency detail required for superlative reproduction of music and film.

In addition to assuming the responsibility for deep bass reproduction, both of these subwoofers dramatically improve the mid-bass and midrange response of any speaker system. It couples advanced materials, construction and design with innovative technology in a system that is always true to the emotion and content of the original sonic source.

Home Products Model Seven. I just had my M5-HPs for my Quatros done. While they are outboard, and far more accessible, I felt more confident having them done in Hanford.

My crossovers were successfully removed and are on their way to the factory for battery replacement. Mission accomplished! Got my crossovers back from Vandersteen yesterday.

Turnaround time was 1 week. Reinstalled them and there is definitely an improvement in the sound. Much more airy sounding. My advice is to make sure you replace the batteries within the time period. Mine were years overdue. That's great info. I wonder if the dealers can set up a tickler file to call customers about replacement at the appropriate time they know the useful life of the batteries and they can also set us up with lithium ones too as well as any other suggestions that they may have.

Thanks for sharing. It looks like the Kentos may be the same as the Quatros in this regard. Of course, the external high pass filters that go prior to the amplifier inputs are a different matter. The KENTO does not have battery bias on the internal crossover because many people let them go dead and the speaker keep playing albeit at a significant loss of transparency!

Lowest common denominator dictates that the expensive battery bias system was not a good idea but they remain on the SEVEN series as they are our flagship. I have spoken with many previous owners who thought that the speakers just were not competitive after 10 years or so and moved on.

In my opinion they do get dark, slow and veiled when the battery's are dead and the caps get unformed.

We have found an expensive treatment time consuming and energy inefficient that puts a permanent pseudo bias on the critical pass caps in the KENTO crossovers which give us 85 percent of the sonic gain.

Battery bias requires four times as many caps in the circuit so once the advantage bias is gone its no wonder the sound suffers like it does. Interesting info. No wonder I was never told to worry about battery bias, lol.

Good to know as I get asked this by some Vandy owners. I'll keep this in mind for sure. That's really too bad. I can imagine your frustration. That's about the price of a decent oil change for a car. Personally, every single day I still marvel at our Quatro CT's.