Boston Acoustics Vr 40 Manual

1. Boston Acoustics Lynnfield Vr 40
2. Boston Acoustics Vr 40 Speakers

I'd say the VR40 was no. 4.IMO, the top speaker I conceived, championed and voiced was the BA VR-M90, a dual 6 1/2-inch 3-way floorstander. It had an amazing 3 1/2-inch midrange and the unmatched BA aluminum VR tweeter. I always liked the AR ADD/Vertical voicing and the BA project engineer on the 90 was a far-field power response guy a la Roy Allison, so the voicing was similar to the AR11 and 91. Great speaker. We never did a color spec sheet on it, but here is a scale line drawing of the VR-M80 and 90.

I can probably dig up more info if you're interested.Nos. 2 and 3 were Atlantic Technology speakers. The IWTS-30LCR was unquestionably the best in-wall speaker I've ever heard, by a country mile.

I pretty much copied the VR-M90's mid for the 30LCR and we used two, so PH was unlimited and distortion was nil. It received THX's highest cert, Ultra 2.

FR was ruler flat from 55-20. The tweet/mid module rotated 90 degrees, so you could maintain a correct vertical MTM whether the speaker itself was H or V.The AT-1 with its remarkable H-PAS bass alignment rounds out my top 3. If H-PAS had been invented and introduced in 1975 instead of 2010, it would have revolutionized the entire industry.

The AT-1 with dual 5 1/4-in woofers went legitimately to 29 Hz. They flapped your pant legs. Its low-rez 1 1/8-in silk dome was about the smoothest tweeter I've ever heard and it could cross over at 2kHz and not break a sweat. Stereophile put the AT-1 on their Recommended Components list-category B, up to $20,000/pr-for 3 years running. The AT-1's were $2500/pr in a very expensive cabinet finish. We could have stripped down the cab and the extras and come in at $1500 for the same performance.

Boston Acoustics Lynnfield Vr 40

Boston Acoustics Vr 40 Speakers

But in 2010, from a small company with very little visibility, the industry yawned. (PS-the 'e' dropped off of 'cliche' when I converted the AT-1 lit from pdf to jpg. Who knows.)I've attached some pics. They were great speakers, all.