Vienna Acoustics Waltz Owners manual

4. March 2004

OWNER´S MANUAL

Now, as always, speakers form the most
important link in a stereo and home theater
system. Therefore, they should be
positioned and connected with care. It is
our hope that the information contained
within this manual will help you in setting
up your new speakers and provide you
with many years of listening pleasure.

Your Vienna Acoustics Team

CABINETS

For WALTZ, the same outstanding veneer
wrapping technique as for all our other
spea-kers is used, and the same high
grade qua-lity in finish and workmanship is
executed.

Just like all the other Vienna Acoustics
speakers, WALTZ features massive and
inert cabinet construction. Vienna Acoustics
cabi-nets are designed with the latest
computer modeling techniques and use a
combination of amorphous materials in
order to ensure that they are both stiff and
well damped. Additionally, our designs
feature narrow front baffles in order to
promote accurate imaging. The combination
of precise construction using furniture
grade finishing techniques and complex
internal damping produce de-signs capable
of accurately rendering music.

CONNECTIONS

All connections must be complete and se­cure, since poor contact between speaker
cable and input connector can lead to
degra -

dation 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.
For WALTZ we use gold plated banana
connectors which do not oxidize, but conta ­minants or surface build-up on your
speaker cables and connectors may
degrade sound quality. The speaker comes
with a set of two gold plated banana plugs
in which the wire is inserted and held in
place by screwing down the insert post.
WALTZ offers two possibili-ties of input
sockets, necessitated by the options of
parallel and angled wall mounting. Both
input possibilities are connected in parallel,
which means, it does not matter which one
you use, just do not use both inputs at one
time.

CABLING

We encourage and recommend the use of
high quality speaker cables and believe
them to be an important tool for the
enthusiast in obtaining maximum
enjoyment from their music reproduction
system. High quality cab-ling is a significant
tool in the fine-tuning of any audio system.

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 high quality
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.