JansZen Valentina P8
Stereophile|June 2022
LOUDSPEAKER
JOHN ATKINSON
JansZen Valentina P8

Although I retired as Stereophile’s editor-in-chief at the end of March 2019, I still have an ongoing connection with the magazine. As well as contributing reviews and measuring the audio products that are being reviewed, I prepare the magazine’s content for republishing on its website. So when JansZen Audio’s David Janszen contacted me about reviewing his Valentina P8 loudspeaker, I looked through my back issues to find reviews of JansZen speakers that could be posted. The earliest review I found was by Stereophile founder J. Gordon Holt, of the JansZen Z-600, in December 1966, which you now can find online.1 Gordon uncharacteristically gushed over the Z-600: “We have lived with a pair of Z-600s for several months now, and our initial enthusiasm for them has not dwindled in the slightest. They provide the clearest, most musically natural ‘window’ to the sound of any generally available under-$1000 system we have ever heard.”

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