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Product Description
Technology
The Imperial Series™ LISZT loudspeaker features an extensive list of new
technologies. Beginning with the new patented Flat-Spider-Cone™ midrange
driver, special care has been taken with the choice of materials and crafting.
This driver is created from a compound of several thermal plastic polymers as
well as added glass fibers. This material composition offers both a considerable
stiffness to mass ratio while also possessing the necessary self silencing
necessary to ensure a lack of coloration in sound reproduction. That is, the cone
material itself is virtually silent eliminating the need for notch type filters in the
crossover. The goal is to eliminate the problem of cone resonances before they
begin. Added to the special material composition is the new flat design which
further removes the sonic signature of the driver by eliminating the cone
diffraction of the cone walls most often referred to as horn-loading. It is through
the process of concentrating on both physical construction or forming and with
special quiet materials that we are able to achieve this new level of performance
that is free of the normal mechanical limitations as well as resonances present in
most conventional midrange cone designs.
LISZT is the result of a many year development project working to further
advance our patented Flat-Spider-Cone™ coincident driver system first used in
our flagship model, The Music, as well as throughout the rest of the Klimt
Series™.
By concentrating on driver development, in both the mechanical domain and the
material domain, we are left with the ideal of a highly simplified cross-over. As
with our other designs, we begin with a first order cross-over. This we believe
allows us to achieve the most seamless integration of all of the drivers into a
single, cohesive whole. This is in part why we have chosen to offer only the
purest and simplest hook up interface of single-wire terminals. Special care has
also been taken with the formulation of the alloys used in these propriety Vienna
Acoustics speaker terminals to ensure the quietest connection interface between
speaker and speaker wire.
In addition to this entirely new flat midrange driver, we have installed a special,
hand crafted silk dome tweeter in its middle or pole location. Doing so allows for
a timing or phase correctness that cannot otherwise be achieved. Ultimately our
final complete coincident driver pairing is capable of reproducing the entire
human vocal range, and beyond, without any cross-over interference particularly
within the most critical human vocal range. The end result is a system that takes
on a presence which until now has only been available in compact monitors. A
further advantage of this design is the mentioned timing or phase correctness of
the overall combination. The complete assembly results in a dispersion
characteristic that creates much more of a "sweet area" versus the typical
"sweet spot" found in most designs. For this reason we prefer to describe this
entire assembly as the Music Center.
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