Loud Speakers Vienna Acoustics Liszt Reference
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€17.990,00
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Franz Liszt: "Music is the heart of life."
Perhaps the most technically advanced pianist of his era, Franz Liszt was noted for astounding improvisations and innovating new forms of music.
Like its namesake, the Imperial Series LISZT is a marvel of technical command – the latest improvisation upon a revolutionary Vienna Acoustics design that sets a new standard in sound.
The Music Company
Vienna Acoustics products are inspired by people and place.
Vienna Acoustic has always been motivated by the dramatic difference a great speaker can deliver; and when building a product by hand, as they do, it is always the people and their teamwork that determine that difference.
Vienna Acoustic team share a passion for music that derives from the ambience of their home, the “City of Music,” with its renowned classical and contemporary music venues. Music is the culture of Vienna, permeating every aspect of life, and musicians from around the world flock to the city to play in its celebrated, acoustically magnificent concert halls. Vienna Acoustics speakers reflect this heritage: like the great Großer Musikvereinssaal, they enable any style of music to be fully realized. The sound is rich, authentic, detailed, and unfailingly musical.
The Liszt Speaker
The pinnacle of Vienna Acoustics’ Imperial Series, the LISZT is an ingenious three-way loudspeaker system using an all-new version of the patented Flat-Spider-Cone™ coincident driver technology first seen in Vienna Acoustic flagship Klimt Series™. This driver is set in a separate rotating, vented enclosure, supported by a sophisticated bass cabinet featuring three of a patented Spider-Cone woofers.
The Music Center
The heart of the LISZT design is the new 15cm Flat-Spider-Cone coincident driver; the result of an intensive development project conducted over the course of many years to further advance Vienna Acoustic patented system. This second-to-none driver assembly, which perfectly marries an astonishing new midrange with an equally remarkable tweeter, was solely developed by Vienna Acoustics and is skillfully manufactured by ScanSpeak.
The midrange portion of the system employs a flat driver using a proprietary self-damping X3P polymer material strengthened by the introduction of glass fibers, which further gains structural rigidity from its twelve large 16mm reinforcement “Spider” ribs. The result of this patented technology is not only unparalleled stiffness with true pistonic behavior, but also exceptionally low mass, resulting in ultra-fast transient response and resolution. Precisely and effortlessly controlling this driver is a huge, high-force neodymium magnet assembly, built around a massive 50mm voice coil.
Installed in a perfectly time-aligned position at the center of the midrange driver is a new Vienna Acoustics–designed, hand-coated silk dome tweeter, driven by a neodymium magnet motor assembly. With over two years of development, this new tweeter ranks as one of our best drivers to date.
The cabinet designed to house this unique driver system makes the most of its remarkable technology. The Flat-Spider-Cone driver is housed in a separate top unit that is decoupled from the bass enclosure by a high-tech, aluminum pivoting mechanism, facilitating optimal tuning by permitting minute toe-in adjustments of the Music Center.
While this basic configuration is similar to that found in the Klimt Series of speakers, unique to LISZT is the porting of the midrange cabinet. This newly VA researched suspension system allows for unsuppressed dynamic delivery and resolution.
The Bass Array
While the Music Center handles high and middle frequencies, three 7 inch Spider Cone bass drivers, with cones composed of our proprietary ribbed X3P polymer material, perform in a separate and elaborately devised enclosure.
The bass cabinet housing the drivers utilizes seven braces that divide the cabinet into two different chambers, one with a single woofer and the other with two woofers, each vented and uniquely tuned. The two lower units produce the lowest bass, working in parallel, while the single driver provides ideal transition to the midrange driver.
This configuration results in tremendous bass extension with speed and liquidity.
The Fit and Finish
As with all Vienna Acoustics speaker systems, LISZT is meticulously handcrafted to the highest standards of quality in Vienna, Austria, with each finished speaker matching the reference within 0.3 dB, to ensure the most effortless and natural performance from every speaker that leaves our factory.
Available in true Piano Black and Piano White, as well as in sustainably sourced Cherry and Premium Rosewood veneer finishes.
Features:
- Impedance: 4 Ohms
- Frequency response: 28 Hz – 25 kHz
- Sensitivity: 91 dB
- Recommended Amplifier: 50 – 400 Watts
- Tweeter: 1.2in / 30mm Handcrafted, Hand-Coated Neodymium Center-Vented Silk Dome
- Midrange: (1) 6in / 152.4mm Flat-Spider-Cone™, High-Power Neodymium Motor
- Woofers: (3) 7in / 177.8mm X3P Spider-Cone™
- Bass System: Bass Reflex
- Crossover System: Three-Way. 6dB and 12dB Bessel
- Crossover Components: MKP Capacitor, 1% Tolerance; Air Coils, 0.7% Tolerance
- Metal Film Resistors: Tolerance, Inductance Free
- Weight per Pair: 198 lbs / 88 kg
- Dimensions (W x H x D) inches: 7.8” x 45.2” 17.2” without base assembly / inches 11.6” x 47.6” 17.2” with base assembly
- Dimensions (W x H x D) mm: 198 mm x 1148 mm x 435 mm without base assembly / 295 mm x 1210 mm x 435 mm with base assembly
- Finishes: Cherry, Premium Rosewood, Piano Black, and Piano White
Awards:
The Absolute Sound Golden Ear 2015 Awards
The Absolute Sound Editor's Choice 2015 Awards
AEX Audio Excellence Award 2015
Reviews:
« Currently, the Liszt is making the running, setting the standard both when it comes to serving up musical satisfaction and in terms of its completeness as a product. It’s not just capable of impressive performance; it delivers the tools to ensure that owners actually achieve that performance, even in this day and age when so many international manufacturers find it harder and harder to guarantee the necessary in-country dealer support for their products. It’s an enviable standard and one that competing manufacturers must meet or beat.
Of course, there’s more than one way to skin the audio cat, and different folks will be looking for different strokes, but the Liszt’s rounded, well-balanced and impeccably mannered performance deserves to win it a lot of friends. Like Vienna Acoustics’ other speakers, this one’s a keeper, a speaker that aims to deliver long-term satisfaction and a lasting musical relationship rather than a quick and torrid affair. Unlike some of the more expensive models in the range, it’s not quite as shy about its qualities. The flagship Vienna designs don’t exactly trumpet their virtues, but the Liszt should leave listeners in absolutely no doubt, either about its qualities or their appeal. Let the games begin. » Roy Gregory, The Audio Beat, February 3, 2016
Option on demand : On customer's site installation and set-up.
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