The VR9 SE Loudspeaker System

VR9 SE Positive Feedback Review

Von Schweikert Audio is proud to announce our newest dealer, one of the world’s premier showrooms of high end audio, The Sound Chamber in Hong Kong. If you happen to be in Central Hong Kong, make sure to stop by and audition our flagship model, the VR-11.

Our flagship VR-11SE is a large speaker by anyone's standards, being over seven feet tall and weighing about 900 pounds per side. Using four 1,000-watt subwoofer amplifiers and 24 drivers per system, it is easy to see why many audio critics have called the VR-11SE "the best speaker in the world", with a bandwidth of 10 Hz to 100 kHz, incredibly low distortion, and 99dB sensitivity. Many of our customers wanted this type of sound in their studios and living rooms, but needed a smaller version that would accommodate space limitations for both acoustics and aesthetics.

Our response was to develop the VR-9SE. The VR-9SE has the same bandwidth and transparency of the larger sibling, but in a smaller and very attractive package. How is this done? The solution was simple. The VR-9SE represents exactly one half of the VR-11SE. All of the components and voicing is identical to that of the larger flagship, just cut in half. While this smaller version does not carry 99dB of sensitivity, it still holds its own as a 96dB loudspeaker, which by most standards produces a very dynamic presentation in just about any audio system.

A two-piece stacked and time-aligned design, each VR-9SE consists of a 1,000-watt powered 15" sealed subwoofer, twin 9" magnesium-coned mid-bass drivers, a 7" Aerogel midrange, a 1.5" dual concentric ring Revelator tweeter, and a 5" aluminum pure ribbon super tweeter. When combined with Low Distortion Motor assemblies and the highest quality crossover circuitry available, this transducer array produces the finest and most lifelike musical presentation available. Indeed, the VR-9SE represents true sonic nirvana for those who desire the very best.

If these qualities are your personal "Holy Grail" and music is an important part of your life, the VR-9 Special Edition is for you! Our award-winning technology has been praised by many esteemed reviewers such as Robert Harley of Stereophile, Harry Pearson of the Absolute Sound, Greg Weaver and Clement Perry of Stereo Times, Rick Becker of Enjoy the Music, and Paul Bolin and John Atkinson of Stereophile. Famous clients include Alan Menken, winner of seven Academy Awards for film scores; Herb Alpert of A&M Records; MTV Studios; Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs; JVC of America, Hollywood video screening room; Sheffield Sound Labs; Stan Ricker Mastering; Chris Huston, recording engineer for Led Zeppelin, The Who, Young Rascals, Pattie La Belle, etc; Blueport Records and more than 40 professional recording studios around the world.

The VR-9SE utilizes our proprietary Acoustic Inverse Replication (A.I.R.) technology, developed by Albert Von Schweikert while at California Institute of Technology. A.I.R. employs our famous Global Axis Integration Network to enable our VR-9SE to replicate the inverse of the recording microphone signal, thus decoding the dimensionality of the actual recorded event. In combination with our rear-firing Ambience Retrieval System, the VR-9SE will provide thrilling realism, so close to a live performance, that you will continue to ask yourself: "Is it Live or is it VR-9?"

Every Listening Session Becomes An Event Not Soon Forgotten...


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