Vienna Acoustics KLIMT "The Music" Speakers in Great Shape w/ Super-Duper Low Reserve

THIS AUCTION IS OPEN TO BIDDERS IN THE US AND CANADA. IF YOU DO NOT LIVE IN THE US OR CANADA PLEASE DO NOT BID. We’re Stereo Exchange, located in New York City. We've been in business since the 1970s and are a major high-end dealer. We have all the current top brands on display in our huge showroom. For Sale: One Pair of Vienna Acoustics KLIMT “The Music” speakers in Sepele finish. These speakers were demos in the store, and come with the manufacturer’s warranty, boxes, packing, and are in great condition. I looked them over and I can’t find any blemishes of significance on them. They look great. IF, AFTER READING THIS AD, YOU ARE INTERESTED IN THESE BUT YOU WANT SOMETHING A LITTLE LESS EXPENSIVE OR SMALLER, WE ALSO HAVE A SIMILAR PAIR OF VIENNA ACOUSTICS KLIMT “THE KISS” SPEAKERS ON AUDIOGON RIGHT NOW. The KLIMT series of speakers from Vienna Acoustics is the very best they know how to build, and almost every part in them has been custom designed for the series, with one major goal in mind…PRECISE IMAGING AND 3-dimensionality of soundstaging. Additionally, this larger model is designed to extend the musical frequency range to, and beyond, the limits of human hearing. It’s been long recognized that in order to get the most precise imaging and soundstage, the timing of frequencies, as they hit our ear, must be tightly controlled. Some British speakers set the tweeter back from the front of the speaker so that the dome of the tweeter and the apex of the cone of the woofer are at about the same distance from your ear, to “time” the high and low frequencies. That works. Vienna rejected this because it only works when you are at one single listening height. If you sit high in your chair, or low, the timing is no longer correct. Some speakers put the tweeter in the center of the woofer and fire through the woofer magnet assembly, using the throat of the woofer magnet as a horn. The problem with this is that the highs are delayed from the low frequencies and must be compensated for in the crossover. The good news, though, is that the timing does not change with your listening position…it’s the same at all angles. Vienna rejected this, too. Instead, they designed a wonderful tweeter that was very small, placed it in the center of a wide-range midrange/woofer, and positioned the dome on a fixed mounting right in line with the woofer cone. They went even further in that the larger driver’s cone is FLAT, and specially re-enforced, so now all the frequencies coming out of this compound driver are in exact time with each other…and at all angles, both up/down and left/right. By making the larger driver FLAT, the wide dispersion of the tweeter is maintained, and no “horn sound” is created. This main compound driver has a range of 100-20,000Hz, so it covers almost 8-Octaves of the music range, and maintains the precise imaging that small monitor speakers are known for. Below this is the woofer section provides, via 3 powerful 9-inch drivers, low-distortion bass down to 22Hz. Subwoofers need to apply to systems with these speakers, at least for music listening! Near the top of the lower woofer section is a tiny SUPER-Super-tweeter, that extends the response from 20-100,000Hz. While we can’t directly hear sounds higher than 20,000Hz, (you are lucky to hear even that high), many feel the super-super-tweeters improve the sound through the rest of the audible range. One possible explanation is that a speaker the “rolls off” at 20,000Hz will have phase errors at frequencies that ARE BELOW 20,000, and that CAN be heard. By extending the speaker’s response to 100,000Hz, the phase response of the speaker is improved at audible frequencies. Whether you “buy into” this theory fully or not, the “openness” of the sound of this speaker is about as good as it gets! In order to get the best of performance from ANY speaker, the rotation and tilt of the speaker should be fine-tuned, and Vienna has address this issue fully. Addressed and delivered, in fact. The entire top “head” of the speaker can be rotated and tiled with precise adjustments on the rear of the speakers using precision threaded adjustment controls. After that, the frequency extremes can also be fine tuned for more “dead” or reverberant rooms with switches on the rear of the speakers. A lot of ultra-high-end speakers are made by small companies without the resources to manufacture custom parts, and end up with a bit of a “built-in-the-garage” look. These are the opposite. The overall attention to detail, materials used, and construction is second-to-none. The cabinetry is beautiful, and the speakers are built to last. The purchaser of these speakers will be getting MORE than their money’s worth. POWER REQUIREMENTS: At 91dB, these speakers can be driven quite well in smaller rooms with a 50-Watt per channel amp. They are 4-Ohms impedance. On the upper end, they can handle 500 Watts each, so they will be able, when adequately powered, to fill large rooms without strain. PRICING: These speakers retail for $30,000 a pair, which is exactly what you would expect if you could hear them and see them. They are priced fairly at $30,000. We are setting the reserve on this great condition demo pair at $12,888.00. At that price they are a TRUE high-end BARGAIN. The fact that they will be packed in their original great-condition boxes and packing, and come with the manufacturer’s warranty is “the icing on the cake!’’ SHIPPING: These will be shipped by a freight truck, not regular UPS. The total shipping weight will be over 400 pounds. We cannot get shipping quotes for everyone!!!!!! These freight companies will not allow us to call them 2-3 times a day for freight quotes. Know that… ---We will charge you what we pay, and not “mark up” the shipping ---Figure “under $1000” to the West Coast is a fairly safe bet, and not less than $300 almost anywhere else. Anyway, as long as you do not live in New York State you are saving New York sales tax (out-of-state shipments are not subject to NY sales tax) and you are saving so much on the speakers that you come out ahead. If you live in the area and want to pick them up, that’s fine, but we MUST charge sales tax, regardless of what state YOU live in. Please give them a good home. Things to know… This item comes with the Vienna Acoustics warranty, but no refunds or exchanges. For sales to the US, we accept PAYPAL and all major credit cards. For sales to Canada, it’s Paypal only. We ship to the US and Canada ONLY. Sales tax will be charged if the unit is shipped to / sold to within New York State or if they are picked up at the store. The above words are the property of KZ Consulting and are NOT to be copied.