The Music Sapele
THE MUSIC introduces a truly revolutionary new flat, concentric 18 cm driver that closely approximates the Platonic ideal for which speaker designers have been striving. It places 7 octaves of music in a single, phase coherent time plane. With a wave...
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Vienna Acoustics Floorstanding Speakers The Music Sapele
THE MUSIC introduces a truly revolutionary new flat, concentric 18 cm driver that closely approximates the Platonic ideal for which speaker designers have been striving. It places 7 octaves of music in a single, phase coherent time plane. With a wave launch that mimics "pebble dropped in a still pond", this remarkable driver reproduces spatial coherence unfamiliar to anyone, save perhaps the original recording engineer.The physics of this patented driver are an outgrowth of Vienna´s longstanding use of reinforced cones designed to maximize strength at nodal multiples, while keeping mass to a functional minimum. Flat cones actually do not provide stiffness, but Vienna Acoustics turned a disadvantage into an advantage by patented one-sided-cone-light-weight-framing. Not only this delivers the best weight-stiffness ratio of any construction (the construction coming close in stiffness is sandwich, but it is too heavy as it needs a second layer and a dense honeycomb mesh), it also allows specific and calculated sound and impulse-response tuning by varying the quantity of ribs, their shape, their thickness, radial or concentric orientation, and specified placements on critical spots. Basis for the cone material is TPX, in a proprietary mix with other materials for the optimum result of stiffness/inner-damping ratio in combination with light-weight-framing on the cone's rear side. The maximum final stiffness is defined by adding glass fibres to the compound, aligned in the optimum arrangement by according injection moulding tool execution. All cones are developed and produced by Vienna Acoustics in Austria, afterwards manufactured to a complete driver by Eton Germany.By using finite element analysis, Vienna Acoustics´chief designer Peter Gansterer was able to create a radial-vaned structure, cast into the flat cone that produces an enormously stiff, flat surface (thereby eliminating time and frequency specific phase shift across the driver), with a new state of the art silk dome tweeter, using a vented neodymium magnet structure placed in its center.
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Vienna Acoustics
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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