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Thank you for the long detailed replys, you have really helped me a lot. I would prefer something in the last few years and I have seen some pretty good deals on ebay and craigslist for the polk audio monitor 60 is that still a huge difference from the Vandy's. I have been really busy so I have not been able to go and listen to the Vandys, but I'm going to try tommorow.
Yes, I've heard the Monitor 60s and they don't impress me at all. Reasonably detailed (in comparison to Cerwin Vegas, anyway), but nowhere near the performance of Infinities with the EMIT tweeters. A friend owned them, then bought TSi300s, sold the 60s based on the sound, and then sold the 300s when he got a pair of '90s Polk RTA-11 speakers that crush both of them (and he paid less too). The newer Polks are quite bright and lack mid and bass definition (and certainly bass quantity) in comparison to older Polks.
I honestly haven't heard any Vandersteens; I'm just going on word-of-mouth and reviews here. The Infinities may well be close to them in performance, but I haven't heard that model either. I wouldn't hesitate to make either pair the rears to my Infinity Renaissance 90 speakers up front.
Well designed older speakers are rarely, if ever, inferior to new ones. There have been minor advances in speaker technology over the years, especially in terms of more esoteric designs, but above all the biggest improvement in speakers from a manufacturer's point of view has been in cost-of-manufacture.
Plastics design in particular has revolutionized speaker design in ways that are not always good. Yes, in the form of Kapton in Infinity speakers or well designed polyvinyl woofer cones they're a good thing - and many other aspects as well. But when it comes to cheaply designed tweeters, woofers, vinyl fake veneer, and more, cheap speakers are just that - cheap speakers. That includes all of those inexpensive Polks, and pretty much anything else you'll see in a big box store.
