Von Gaylord Audio VG-18 Speakers

For sale is a pair of our used VG-18 speakers, it is mahogany. It has slight damage and scratch, but doesn't"t effect the performance.

VGA offer 3 months parts and labor warranty.

Stands are not included!

Pick up available in Oakland or San Leandro area.

Please look at the photo, and let me know if you have any question.
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• 2-way speaker system
• 8 inch Aluminum cone
• 1 inch Magnesium Ceramic dome tweeter
• Ported design
• Bi-wire design
• Time-aligned
• Mahogany high gloss finish
• Frequency response 35Hz to 25kHz, +3db
• Impedance : 8 ohms
• Sensitivity : 89db
• Power requirement : 50 to 400 watts

Below are some great reviews:
 

My friend Aaron is not an audiophile and had never been to an audio show before he tagged along to T.H.E. Show 2023 with me. We’ve been friends since we were 3 years old, and it was a fun opportunity to hang out and introduce him to the (sometimes bizarre) world of high-end audio. Since he doesn’t know his TAD from his NAD, I enjoyed seeing how he responded to the different rooms with no preconceived notions about what he’d be hearing. Of course, most audiophiles went into the show already knowing which brands are famous, and which gear is super expensive. So it was interesting to me that Aaron’s favorite room at the show wasn’t from a well-known brand, and that the gear we heard was considerably less expensive than most of the stuff at the show. That room belonged to Von Gaylord Audio, a relatively small boutique manufacturer of speakers and electronics from California, started by Von Gaylord and Ray Leung back in 1994.

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I had seen Von Gaylord Audio in passing at a few other shows over the years, but didn’t really know what to expect when Aaron and I entered the room and saw some attractive tube amps powering a pair of stand-mounted speakers with an interesting trapezoidal silhouette and a mahogany high-gloss finish. I later learned that the speakers were Von Gaylord’s VG-18 ($6,900/pair), and that the electronics included the company’s Sweet-preamp/DA ($4,500) being used as a DAC, the Harmony preamp ($5,000), and the Nirvana Signature Mono Amps ($10,500/pair) running Tungsol KT120 tubes. The system delivered crystalline clarity on “The Tennessee Waltz” by the Holly Cole Trio, with the harmonica in particular sounding arrestingly present. At first I thought the system might have been exaggerating the sibilance in a way that I found disagreeable, but after hearing that same track on two other systems, I am convinced that the sibilance issues are present on the recording. Just goes to show the dangers of drawing conclusions based on unfamiliar recordings! (As a side note, I have always been a fan of “The Tennessee Waltz” in general, but don’t particularly care for the Holly Cole version. Check out the album Vol. II by Watkins Family Hour to hear a version that’s more to my liking.)

Because Aaron and I both enjoyed the Von Gaylord Audio room so much, we went back the next day and got to hear a different system based on the less expensive VG-8 MKII speakers ($2900/pair), finished in gloss black. The system also used the Sweet-preamp/DA DAC and Harmony preamp, this time with a pair of Von Gaylord’s smaller, 50-watt Triode Mono Amps ($6500/pair), which use Psvane KT88 tubes. As before, a Cambridge Audio CXC CD transport ($599) was being used to play CDs. This system would win my “Best Value” award, if such a thing existed. The overall character of the sound was very similar to the more expensive system from the previous day. On selections from the 1976 album Jazz at the Pawnshop from recording engineer Gert Palmcrantz, Arne Domnérus’s alto sax sounded natural, with just the right amount of reedy buzz in the transients, and Lars Erstrand’s vibraphone reverberated and decayed in a way that felt right. Von Gaylord’s speaker designer, Ray Leung, explained that his aim was to build stand-mount speakers that sound like small floorstanders and therefore don’t require subwoofers. Leung believes that integrating subs into a two-channel system is more trouble than it’s worth. Whether you agree with that or not, there was no denying that the bass guitar on “Somewhere, Somebody” by singer Jennifer Warnes sounded full and deep in a floorstander kind of way. Both the percussion and vocals had good transients, and the overall sound was easygoing and inviting. I heard this system about 24 hours after the first Von Gaylord system, with a few dozen other systems in between, so I hesitate to draw comparisons. But the less expensive system didn’t seem to give up much to the first one. If pressed, I might say that the first system had slightly higher resolution overall, and the soundstage might have been a few inches bigger in every dimension. But considering the price difference, the $2,900 VG-8 MKII loudspeakers would be hard to pass up. Given how nicely they played with tube amps of modest power, I can imagine pairing them with something like PrimaLuna’s EVO 100 integrated amp ($2,795) and being very happy for a very long time.

Below is a video show report from AV showroom
​​​​​​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nagKRVnVsX0

This model is the VG-18 speakers, but different finish.
​​​​​​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lECNqbKaUY