Vienna Acoustics Concert Grande owner manual Connections, Cabling, Amplification

CONNECTIONS

The massive Vienna Acoustics input terminals are designed to accept banana plugs, spade terminals or bare wire connec-tion. Make certain that all connections are well tightened since poor contact between speaker cable and input connector can lead to degradation of sound quality.

It is also a good idea to make a point of regularly cleaning all connections in your system since oxidation will build up on a regular basis. We use gold/silver terminals which do not oxidize, but contaminants or surface build-up on your speaker cables and connectors may degrade sound quality.

While it is popular among some audiophile circles to fit duplicate sets of binding posts for "bi-wiring", we have cho-sen to follow sound engineering practises. Our crossovers are configured as an organic whole, intended to optimize every known aspect of driver integration.

It is our belief that with the high quality of wire currently available, it is in most cases possible to obtain higher per-formance from a single run of superior cable to two lesser runs of cable. By keeping a single ground plane in our crossover design, we are better able to control the many variables that can be negatively affected by poorly executed bi-wiring choices. The result for you is consistently superior musical reproduction.

CABLING

We encourage and recommend the use of high quality speaker cables and believe them to be an interesting tool for the enthusiast in obtaining maximum enjoyment from their music reproduction system. High quality cabling is capable of finetuning a system for performance. As with any purchase, listen carefully and allow your ears to guide you.

It is beyond the scope of this manual to provide a useful compendium concerning cables, or to make specific brand or model recommendations. A number of magazines do in fact list cable recommendations.

AMPLIFICATION

Our speakers demonstrate outstanding sonic results with a variety of amplifier types. They feature a combination of high efficiency and gentle impedance curves that allow them to be used with either solid state or tube electronics.

However, it is still important to select an amplifier with care since the full potential of your system will only be revealed by quality electronics. Amplifier designs do have distinct and different sounds.

It is important to listen carefully to the match of amplifier and loudspeaker to ensure that the combination works well sonically for you. Though rated amplifier wattage bears little correlation to either sound quality or drive capability the user is cautioned that amplifiers of low wattage ratings, when stressed beyond their limits can produce audible amounts of distortion, as such as non-audible high frequencies. This distortion can and will damage loudspeaker components and will not be covered by warranty.