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Working with an audiophile boss in another industry, Richard was asked to repair a pair of top-level speakers. Like everything Richard does, he jumped in with both feet. With a natural aptitude for all things mechanical, and his electrical engineering training acquired while serving in the Air Force in Korea during the Vietnam war, Richard realized he could make a better speaker for less money. A speaker to use and enjoy himself. A speaker, known as the Model 2 shown to a dealer that insisted on offering it in Chicago at CES. A speaker that created so many orders from dealers at its first show it demanded a company be founded. After years of speaker research, Vandersteen Audio became official with these show orders in hand in 1977. Vandersteen continues to use live vs. recorded experiments and to better the replication of instruments focusing on evoking a natural emotional response. This continuing adventure started with a conventual box design, time and phase correct first-order filters, vertically aligned minimum area baffles, single drivers for frequencies above 150 Hz began to develop. These fundamental discoveries are the building blocks of all of our products to this day and are time-proven with hundreds of thousands of music lovers listening to Vandersteen today.

Either you feel the emotional involvement of time and phase correct design, or you don't. Vandersteen has become the only remaining speaker manufacturer worldwide where the entire line is time and phase correct. We hold fast to the idea that timing and phase in music is essential in its reproduction. This process does not lend itself to mass production or out-of-house manufacturing sources. It requires anechoic measurement to ensure costly wide-bandwidth capable drivers remain distortion-free and phase correct in the transition from one driver to another for clean and clear sonic qualities and reliability. Richard Vandersteen, and now his entire family, create this unique solution while economizing and efficiently producing these products to keep them made in the USA.

Vandersteen's focus is to satisfy and enrich the lives of our existing customers. We do that with fair pricing, quality, and an on-going commitment to consistent values. Many business-savvy advisors build in obsolescence. That will never happen at Vandersteen. As Vandersteen progresses it is technology forward, the proof of long-term customer satisfaction is our valued owners find they appreciate the advancements in technology while remaining content with their purchase for decades. This same focus is paramount in our dealer choices resulting in select Vandersteen dealers who convey the highest quality purchase experience focused on long-term satisfaction.

Alan and his staff work very hard to satisfy their customers. Their facility features the highest-quality listening experiences, and the team brings many years of experience building synergistic systems seeking total happiness for their clients. Vandersteen is always pleased to send their valued clients to HiFi Buys.