Vienna Acoustics Beethoven Concert Grand Reference - PIANO WHITE - NIB/Warranty - PRICE DROP!

This is the current model and NEW IN THE BOX Vienna Acoustics Beethoven Concert Grand Reference floor standing speakers in piano gloss white finish.  The pictures are stock photos and not the actual speakers being sold since they are sealed in the box.  Will not remove the speaker from their boxes for pictures or thee will no longer be considered brand new.  The speaker is NOT refurbished or re-certified (NOT B-STOCK) and includes full warranty.  The model noted as "REFERENCE" means these Beethoven Concert Grand are the newest and current model. It means these are not just a slight upgrade from the previous Beethoven speakers but a total re-engineered and rebuild from the floor to the top of the whole speaker incorporating the new spidercone driver also resulting in re-engineered crossovers.  The sonic result is that the speaker still has the sonic signature of Vienna Acoustics but with more musical detail, larger soundstage, control and much more! These rate a 11 out of 11!

NOTE; SHIPPING COST IS $600.00 DUE TO THE SIZE AND WEIGHT OF THE SPEAKERS & SHIPPED ON A PALLET.  UNFORTUNATELY, THE AUDIOGON SHIPPING ESTIMATOR WILL NOT APPLY TO THIS SALE.

BEETHOVEN Concert Grand REFERENCE™

The Beethoven Concert Grand Reference™ is a no-compromise loudspeaker, breaking grounds in setting new standards in state-of-the-art music reproduction. To say only that the design goals for such a speaker were high efficiency, outstanding dynamic range, excellent low bass extension, and ultra-wide bandwidth from a reasonably compact enclosure, misses the larger point. The Beethoven‘s overriding goal is to produce music on such a completely convincing scale that it will transform the listening room and transport the listener. At the heart of the design stand our brandnew spidercone drivers, one 6 inch midrange and three 7 inch woofers, all with our patented flat Spidercone within a new construction, consisting of 2 distinct cones – the all new Composite Cone. The plane surface of the spidercone offers the advantage of precise, piston-like movement. Any diaphragm should move in and out as one unit, not as a quivering mass of uncorrelated vibrations. It should move as a perfectly-solid piston. The flat cone is extremely stiff, with bracings of a height of 18 mm (bass) and 14 mm (mid), yet light, respectively, further reinforced by glasfibers in our new X4P™ mixture. 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 our 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. The countless listening testings brought forth such an unexpected unique combination the we gave it a new name, the Composite Cone. The 5cm area is now an inverted dome made of woven fabric, double-coated on its rearside. Perfection was achieved by listening to various axial positions, with extraordinary homogenous results by employing a recessing of 8mm. The sum total of the features of the Composite Cone is a peerless symbiosis. Furthermore, one of the reasons why the woven fabric center cone interacts so nicely, is its affinity to the fabric material of our highly musical, hand-coated silk dome tweeter, designed by Vienna Acoustics, hand-crafted by a Scandinavian team of specialists. This 1.1 inch tweeter is capable of revealing even the finest nuances in a most natural way, while imparting no stridency at all of its own, and consummately extend well down into the midrange spectrum. The crossover circuitry possesses both, the elegant simplicity of soft filters - pure first-order, 6 dB per octave slopes to Bessel second order - and the essential complexity resulting from listening, needed to weave dexterously the drivers' output into a cohesive system. All decisions concerning individual components and the layout of the circuitry were as always made through extensive listening tests. Specially selecting each component results in a harmonious musicality, while a sophisticated layout helps in clarifying instrumental timbres.

Technical Data:

Impedance: 4 Ohms

Frequency Response: 28-23000 Hz

Sensitivity: 90 dB

Recommended Amplifiers: 50 - 400 Watts

Drive Units: 7” Woofer (3)

Composite Cone: Flat X4P Spidercone with recessed fabric center-cone 6”

Midrange Composite Cone: Flat X4P Spidercone with recessed fabric center-cone

Tweeter: 1.1” Hand Coated Vienna Acoustics Silk Dome

Bass System: Bass Reflex

Bass Function: Impulse Optimizing QB 3 (Quasi-Butterworth) Crossover Components Polypropylene Capacitors, 1% tolerance Coils 0,7% tolerance, Midrange/Tweeter Section Air Coils, Special Powder Core for Bass Section Metal Film Resistors 1% tol., Inductance Free

Crossover Function: 3-way, 6 dB and 12 dB Bessel

Weight per Pair 75 kg / 165 lbs

Dimension:(W x H x D) inches 8,1 x 44,5 x 15 (without base assembly) / 12,1 x 46,9 x 15 (with base assembly)

Dimension: (W x H x D) mm 205 x 1130 x 380 mm (without base assembly) / 307 x 1191 x 380 mm (with base assembly)

Finishes Piano White