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Vienna Acoustics Beethoven Grand

Hi All,

Just wanted to say WOW. My dealer has a pair of these. It's quite surprising as he tells me they are not released yet but he has received one of the first pairs.

Visually they are stunning. He has them in Cherry which is far more interesting than Beech, not quite Rosewood though. He has already put about 100 hours on them and they sound amazing. I went there to test the Beethovens (a demo pair) and fortunately he had the grand set up so we could do an A-B.

No comparison! The 3 bass drivers really kick up the bass response another notch. And the scanspeak tweeter developed for VA is really something special.

If only a mortage wasn't required for a pair!

PS. They were being powered by a set of Audio Research Monoblocks (not sure which ones), Audio Research Preamp and source, and Audioquest top-of-the-line cabling throughout.
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flemke
595 posts
 
Jmcgrogan2
I agree. They sound like crap with B+K amps and monster cable. I had the sales guy from Tweeter at my house and could not belive how the Beethovens sounded setup correctly. I almost bought the last pair of Stauss they had,but then switch over to Dynaudio.
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jmcgrogan2
6,346 posts
 
Which Dynaudio? One friend of mine has the Audience 82's another friend has a pair of Contour 3.4's. Very nice speakers.

John
gwoodall
4 posts
 
I have emailed Sumiko about the availability of the Beethoven Concert Grand and they responded that they are available in the US for $4500 plus 500 more for Rosewood. You can expect that the the availability is limited in this early stage of release.

Gwoodall
ttrhp
107 posts
 
I just sold my beethoven and approaching the avantgarde uno..i hope i am making the right decision.i love the way the beethoven sing,but since i am still in my trial and error stage..i need to try the uno,cuz i heard so many good thing about it..if for some reason the uno wont click with my ear,i ll definitely go back to the beethoven.
erikminer
433 posts
 
I just sold my Strauss's and got Proac D25.. So far with only about 20 hours on them and even with new speaker cables the Proac's crush the Vienna's..
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