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Any Vienna acoustics love out there? Anyone even still using them?

Don't hear much about them anymore.  I ask because I moved my Bach Grands from the living room (where they don't get much use) down into my basement main listening room today.  Wanted to hear them with my Hegel h360, which I have never done.  I was quickly reminded why I bought them in the first place.  Great imaging/center image and instrument separation, excellent soundstage, sweet midrange.  Warm, full sound you can listen to all day long.  Can a speaker be on the warm side and still detailed?  If so, I would say these fit the bill.  Not the best for dynamics or that 'live' feeling, but that's not what I bought them for.   

Anyway, interested in anyone's VA experience in general.
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ghdprentice
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I remember those speakers… they were very good.

“Can a speaker be on the warm side and still detailed?“

Yes… and importantly so can a system. In my view it should. If a system highlights the detail too much it becomes too analytical and takes the focus off the music and puts it on details. This topic has popped up elsewhere… but when you go to the symphony you are not immediately shocked my the amount of detail… it is all there, but not spotlighted. 

It has taken me over forty years to finally get that balance right so the music comes first and the detail is there with appropriate emphasis and warm natural sounding.
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