Here is a photo of the VR-33 showing the interior of the cabinet. You can easily see how this ends up weighing 103 lbs per side! The cabinet is extremely solid, like a block of hardwood rather than a hollow box. That is why our customers are describing the sound as "neutral and uncolored."
No other speaker in this price range has this level of cabinet solidity or parts quality. If you are looking at beautiful cabinetry on a competing speaker in this price range, you are spending most of your money on wood veneer and getting inexpensive Chinese drivers and flimsy build quality. If you rap your knuckles on "their" cabinet and hear a hollow resonance like a guitar, that speaker is going to sound very colored, while our VR-33 is going to sound "solid" with no resonance or coloration.
Please note that the internal shelf bracing has been cut away to show the interior of the cabinet and drivers, so you don't see the full shelves in the photo. The bracing is 1" thick and are solid shelves with holes cut in certain areas for air flow. Although this is not a labyrinth type of transmission line, it sounds like one - the bass is extremely tight and deep. The tuning alignment is a hybrid, consisting of a bass reflex port for pressure release at 25Hz combined with a high stuffing density to create a 6th order Chebychev alignment. The transient response of this alignment is as fast as the sealed 6" bass-mid drivers, so integration is nearly perfect.
If you look at the front of the baffle, you will see that the twin 6" bass-mids and the silk dome tweeter are completely surrounded by thick acoustic foam to absorb the reflections from the baffle. This enables the VR-33 and VR-35 to have a three-dimensional image and sound stage that one customer said was "as large as the Grand Canyon." In fact, most of the beta testers told us that "no other speaker system in their experience had this type of depth and image size, regardless of price." Be looking for an upcoming review wherein the reviewer states that "no other speaker he has heard for less than $10,000 can touch the VR-33."
Please note that the VR-33 and VR-35 are both available in a variety of different grill cloth colors and trim pieces, so please contact us if you need something special for your room.
If you live in Europe and wish to purchase the VR-35 Export Edition version, contact Cor Dekker at Musical Reality at <
[email protected]>. If you live in Asia and wish to order the VR-35 Export Edition, please contact us for a list of Asian Distributors- we have AudioLine in Singapore and Mr. Tan in Malaysia, along with Komfortsound in Thailand.
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