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HAYDN Grand Bookshelf Speaker Pair

A compact, two-way speaker, the Haydn Grand features exceptional imaging, resolution, and linearity, challenging the performance of the finest floor standers. The deceptively simple driver centers around the groundbreaking airflow control wedge bass reflex port that virtually eliminates port noise, allows for increased placement flexibility, and provides an extraordinarily compact driver configuration by positioning the tweeter on the front of the wedge.

Inspired By A Master

Joseph Haydn's music is known for its lyricism, from which vibrant tonal colors and brilliant harmonic structures are drawn out of deceptively simple arrangements. Simliarly, the Haydn Grand's deceptively simple driver housed in a bookshelf pair features exceptional imagaing, resolution, and linearity, challenging the performance of the finest floor standers. The driver consists of a 6" X3P mid-bass driver and refined 1" triple stacked silk-dome tweeter centered around the groundbreaking airflow control wedge bass reflex port that serves to virtually eliminate port noise, allows for increased placement flexibility, and provides an extraordinarily compact driver configuration by positioning the tweeter on the front of the wedge. This combination of elements, housed in a beautiful, compact cabinet, permits equally effective and effortless placement in either bookshelves or on speaker stands.

Groundbreaking Technology

Most notable of the many unique technological features found in the Haydn Grand is the groundbreaking bass reflex port airflow control wedge. Not only does this assembly allow for a front port configuration that increases placement flexibility by virtually eliminating port noise, it also provides an extraordinarily compact driver arrangement by positioning the tweeter on the front of the wedge. Both features contribute to an unrivaled level of performance in its class.

Driving High-Quality Sound

As with all Vienna Acoustics loudspeakers, a handcoated silk dome tweeter was specifically designed for the Haydn Grand. Featuring a specially developed ferrofluid damping system in combination with a super-light four-ohm voicecoil, the result is superior resolution of high frequency extremes while achieving perfect midrange warmth and clarity. The new 6" midrange driver benefits from a reformulation of Vienna Acoustics' proprietary XPP cone material. Combining TPX, the unique thermoplastic used in all XPP cones, with three polpropylene-based synthetics achieves maximum inner damping, ultra-low mass, and precise control over cone density and rigidity. Dubbed XP3 (because of the three additional polymers) this new cone material allows the driver to provide an extraordinarily wide bandwidth while posessing a level of inner detail, quietness, and control that is truly remarkable.

It's The Little Things

The drivers are obviously the biggest influence of the sound quality, but don't forget that the smaller elements have an impact as well. The Haydn Grand also features improvements on some of the smaller internal elements. A completely new linear crossover layout, with the copper circuit paths arranged in the direction of electron flow, allows for more direct and efficient transfer of signal to the drivers that leads to a greater level of detail and purity. New proprietary cabling avoids noise injection through the wiring harness by prescribing a specific number of turns for each cable pairing in a particular length of each cable. New gold and silver alloy terminals for lowest transfer resistance and durability are directly connected to the crossover circuit board to ensure complete current delivery and no loss of clarity in the signal transfer from binding post to crossover.

The Outside Counts, Too

The best drivers and connections in the world still won't sound that great in the wrong enclosure. The Haydn Grand cabinets boast massive baffles that are 1.25" thick, 25% thicker than previous models, for maximum rigidity and resonance control. Innovative and unique grilles feature an aluminum frame that incorporates an integral V-shaped phase diffusor to control dispersion so taht they can be left on for all but the most critical listening without an adverse influence on performance. In fact, it can be used as an additional tuning device for the audio enthusiast, benefitting soundstage presentation both in depth and stereo imaging. As an additional benefit, the V-shaped groove running the length of the grille results in a more elegant appearance for the speaker. Because although the most important aspect is how it sounds, you want something that looks good in your living room. The rosewood finish adds that final touch of class.

Where Good Sound Comes From

If you ask someone to list famous and influential composers, you might hear names like Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss, and Haydn. Besides being extremely talented musicians and composers, all these men have something in common — Vienna, Austria. At some point in their careers, they spent time composing there. So you might say great music comes from Vienna. Great sound comes from Vienna as well. The Vienna Acoustics company manufactures some of the highest quality speakers you'll find on the market. Vienna is committed to creating speakers that bring you closer to the music, and just a few bars of your favorite band through one of their award-winning speakers will have you convinced. Painstaking technical research goes into each component of each speaker, and only the finest-quality materials are used to create the final product. In fact, Vienna speaker engineers are so precise, a portion of each shipment of parts is sent back because it doesn't meet standards. That's right — they check them all. Then the speaker engineers go to work assembling the parts into an accoustically superior speaker, and finally, all that brilliant technology is wrapped up in a furniture-grade cabinet that is hand-finished. This timeless and simple elegance is easy to integrate into your living room. Then you turn on the music and listen to the superior sound. Vienna — where good sound comes from.

An Emphasis On Technology

Loudspeakers are the most crucial link in any music reproduction system, with the greatest impact on sound quality. The reason for this is simple: of all system components, the speaker has the most difficult job, namely to transform electrical energy into acoustical energy. Successfully combining the individual characteristics of a loudspeaker's many parts, the heart of design work, is a task of such complexity that it falls into the realm of an art. Vienna Acoustics engineers meticulously design and produce each element of a speaker from the crossover to the terminal to the speaker cone using both computer-based tools and their well-trained ears.

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