It has been regarded by many of the experts as one of the best speakers in its price range. Robert Harley categorically called it the best mid-priced speaker. Sue Kraft compares it with speakers in the $10,000 range.
What you may not know is that it is one of the loudspeakers most chosen by electronics manufacturers to display and show off their products in shows.
These include such big names as VAC, DK, Moscode, and Granite Audio and others of which only VAC and DK were official show partners.
Here is an excerpt from Granite Audio's Website.
We debuted our newest Model #864SR tube power amps at CES 2005 and wanted to feature their great sound with great speakers other than our own Granite Audio speakers in one of our two listening rooms. Since there were four other exhibitors also showing the VR4jr's with different electronics , our listeners could better evaluate the sonic performance of our all tube Granite Audio electronics. The VR4jr's were an easy choice for us because of their quality construction, good sound, and great value of cost vs. performance.
Many CES 2005 visitors went to all five rooms with the VR4jr's and reported back that Granite Audio "has the sound". Everyone we heard back from agreed that we made the VR4jr's sound the best. Of course Albert was also quite pleased to hear this and made many trips to our exhibit to compare our performance with his quality made VR4jr's. Yes, you can expect to see VonSchweikert speakers again in the 2006 Granite Audio exhibit.
RG's jrs have about 175 hours of high SPL break-in time already. The last pair just started so It's got only 10 hours at best.
