Richard Vandersteen at AXPONA 2024 

Good interview! Thanks...

Great interview - Vandersteen is part of the hi-fi pantheon, an iconoclast and his speakers produce the musical event unparalleled.

Richard Vandersteen is one of the smartest, purist and most innovative loudspeakers manufacturers in high end audio, and a super nice and dte guy to boot. And a bigger, better speaker than the Model 7 xtrm? Yes please.

Richard’s room was fantastic. Organic and enveloping.

I don't use equipment that doesn't have tone controls. Most of the time I leave them set flat, but being able to change the sound to suit a particular situation is vital. Vandersteen is one of a few worthy companies I like to tell people about. Many have never heard of it.

I always appreciated Vandersteen speakers and I've had my ears on the Quatro Wood CT for a while now.

Legend ❤

Richard, quick question. How come your expensive speakers come with such cheap screws masquerading as binding posts. Surely a $4K speaker can be fitted with WBT binding posts. You are the only designer with this flaw. BTW I have a pair of ❤2Ce and just love the sound.❤❤❤

Glad to see Mr. Vandersteen is still making new designs Long may it last! Tone control never went out of fashion... My own diy preamp has a direct source switch that operates relays to completely take the tone circuit out of signal path. I was quite proud of this as I hadn't seen it done before exactly the way it's implemented. Do I ever use it? nope - tone control circuit is always on, flat settings or otherwise. Why? It just sounds better. Lesson: wire with gain hypothesis doesn't stand up in real life.

Nice like the concept. got to change that remote though something like a 1980s B&O big Square buttons light up symbols in the middle of the buttons and a carved wood outer frame.

Is there a video of the event involving Richard V. in Cleveland Hts?