"For not much more than twice the price of the current version of his Model 2, Richard Vandersteen has, in the Treo, designed a speaker that fully justifies the dollar differential. Highly recommended. "
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The Treo is essentially a passive version of the original Quatro Wood, sharing the same driver complement sans the powered-bass system. It too is offered in an array of wood finishes in a strikingly attractive form factor. But the Treo is also a modern take on the legendary Model 2, a paragon of cost-effective performance that's made in the USA, but in an elegant outer package.
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"... the whole of the Treo's performance is more than the sum of those parts. There was never a recording that I didn't enjoy through these speakers ... Highly recommended." -John Atkinson, Stereophile
The Treo is essentially a passive version of the original Quatro Wood, sharing the same driver complement sans the powered-bass system. It too is offered in an array of wood finishes in a strikingly attractive form factor. But the Treo is also a modern take on the legendary Model 2, a paragon of cost-effective performance that's made in the USA, but in an elegant outer package.
The Treo is a time- and phase-correct full-range loudspeaker. Because such great demands are placed on the drivers in Vandersteen’s first-order speaker designs, the Treo’s drivers are the kind of highly advanced transducers typically found in cost-no-object designs. The proprietary transmission-line loaded tweeter and Vandersteen’s proprietary Reflection-Free 4.5” midrange driver break up energy from behind these drivers before they can pass directly back into the room and to the listener’s ears. The 6.5” Tri-Woven woofer offers superior transient response and definition in the crucial lower-midrange/midbass frequencies, with the bass foundation supplied by the ported, carbon-loaded 8” woofer with an ultra-long motor assembly.
The impedance-compensated crossovers are ultra high-performance designs featuring extreme-quality parts, and individually tuned in an anechoic chamber. Vandersteen’s Minimum Baffle enclosures ensure maximum rigidity, free of time-smearing reflections and diffraction. All of this technology allows the Treos to offer the kind of exceptional resolution, imaging and natural musicality Vandersteens are known for.
Magic in the Midrange
Vandersteen’s 4.5” Reflection-Free™ Midrange carried a US patent for over 20 years, and the essential design is still the heart of all Vandersteen speakers. Typical midrange drivers are backed by a large, round magnet structure that’s nearly as big around as the driver cone itself. Because drivers cones emit as much energy backward as forward this “back wave” of sonic energy reflects off the magnet structure and arrives at the listener’s ears in time with the primary signal, smearing the timing of the music and creating sonic confusion. Vandersteen’s Reflection-Free midrange avoids this time-domain distortion by using an open back with a cylindrical magnet structure that allows the back wave to be broken up and diffused inside the speaker cabinet so it doesn’t smear the signal reaching the listener’s ears. The result is a pure and open midrange with true Dimensional Purity …
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Tweeter |
1” Exclusive Dual-Chamber, Transmission-Line Loaded, Ceramic-Coated Alloy Dome with Ferrofluid Voice-Coil Cooling |
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Midrange |
4.5” Reflection-Free Tri-Woven Composite Cone with Die-Cast Aerodynamic Basket and Magnet System with Ferrofluid Voice-Coil Cooling |
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Mid-Woofer |
6.5” Woven-Fiber Cone and Precision-Formed Magnet Assembly Copper Faraday Ring |
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Subwoofer |
8” Carbon-Loaded Cellulose Flat-Cone Woofer with Ultra-Long-Throw Motor Assembly with Down-firing port in QB3 Alignment |
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Recommended Amplification |
40-160 watts per channel into 8 ohms |
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Frequency Response |
36Hz – 30kHz +/- 3dB |
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Sensitivity |
85 dB, 1 meter/2.83 volt input |
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Impedance |
6 ohms +/- 3 ohms |
| Phase | First Order, All Drivers in Positive Acoustic and Electrical Phase |
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Crossovers |
First order/6dB per octave, 80Hz, 900Hz, 5kHz |
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Input Terminals |
Barrier strips, 7/16" max width |
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Dimensions (WHD) |
10” x 43” x 15” |
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Weight |
80 lbs. Net |
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Country of Manufacture |
Made in the USA |
"For not much more than twice the price of the current version of his Model 2, Richard Vandersteen has, in the Treo, designed a speaker that fully justifies the dollar differential. Highly recommended. "
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The Vandersteen Audio's full-range floorstanding 3-way featuring the patented carbon-fiber Perfect-Piston Carbon Tweeter, similar to its larger siblings, in a package that is the "little gem" of the entire speaker lineup. Designed from the beginning to rest close to the wall behind it while having an aesthetic that blends into many style interiors, this speaker is the answer for many non-audiophiles and musicians who want music in their homes without a dedicated space for listening. That said, if you have a listening space and are an audiophile, this speaker will keep up with your most demanding listening criteria. This is a great first Vandersteen and also a Vandersteen that will stay for a lifetime.
Starting at $11090.00 /pair
The music lover's center speaker, the VCC-2 is an on-wall, three-way center speaker designed to be the perfect companion for home theater systems built around Vandersteen's floorstanding three- and four-way speakers, including the Model 2Ce Signature II, Model 3A Signature, Treo (CT) and Quatro Wood CT.
Starting at $2200.00 /each
The Vandersteen VSM-1 is an advanced surface-mount loudspeaker optimized for the unique requirements of the rear channel positions in a multi-channel audio/video system. 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.
Starting at $1775.00 /pair
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.
Starting at $1899.00 /each