Liszt Reference features a top section which is a completely independent module which allows to control and carefully position the critical Music Center. To eliminate the potential for extraneous mechanical information to reach up from the bass cabinet, the Music Center is similarly attached through one centered high grade aluminium turning mechanism. The overall goal with this sophisticated design is to allow the entire Music Center to be positioned at its optimal angle towards the chosen listening position while also being completely isolated mechanically from the bass cabinet.
The heart of its design is an version of Flat-Spider-Cone coincident driver. This second-to-none driver assembly perfectly marries an astonishing new midrange flat-spidercone with an equally remarkable tweeter in a revolutionary ring radiator design.
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 plane surface of the spidercone offers the advantage of precise, piston-like movement.
The rearside bracings are constructed in a way that the whole impulse energy is allocated evenly via the whole surface of the flat cone. Every square centimeter delivers the same impulse as its neighbours, which results in revolutionary impulse response control. As cone/diaphragm-construction builds upon a very large voice coil, the radiating surface in its middle is large, thereby making it an significant sound determinant.
Liszt Reference’s bass drivers is an inverted dome made of woven fabric, double-coated on its rearside.
Liszt Reference’s tweeter is a coaxial adaption of the super-tweeter. The careful adjustment of the general construction applied to a coaxial arrangement has fantastic advantages, in addition to the obvious ideal of performing in the center of the midrange – the point source. This provides for uncanny precision in spaciousness, while the ring radiator tweeter construction results in breathtaking resolution, but maintaining heartwarming naturalness.
Vienna Acoustics has been hand-crafting loudspeakers of distinction in Vienna, Austria, the ‘City of Music’ and the birthplace of western classical music, since 1989. Inspired by the city’s undeniably rich musical heritage, the company has a passion for sound and a true drive for perfection.Founder and Chief Designer Peter Gansterer, still leads the company, having extensively studied acoustical engineering and the great concert halls of Vienna at a young age. His understanding of live music enables Vienna Acoustics’ speakers to precisely reproduce the dynamics and excitement of a recording. His team’s fanatical attention to detail, perfectionist engineering and no-compromise design, neatly fulfils the company’s aim: to bring the listener closer to the music.The company prides itself on exceptional standards too, such as furniture-grade cabinets crafted in state-of-the-art joineries, factory-built crossovers to carefully match the drive units, plus an exhaustive, design, development and testing process. Such patience and precision is vital to the world-famous Vienna Acoustics sound.The company focuses individually on each and every product that leaves the factory, ensuring that its customers recieve the masterpiece that Peter Gansterer intended, wherever they are unpacked in the world.
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