Напольная акустика — Vienna Acoustics The Music

The Music is a tower design with three ways from the Austrian company Vienna Acoustics, with integrated subwoofer drivers in its lower cabinet and a separate upper housing for the midrange and tweeter. It is offered in Sapele veneer, and the three bass drivers are built by Eton to a Vienna Acoustics specification using the brand's own spidercone framing, which is also found in its smaller models.

Key specs that matter

Three drivers of 9 inch size handle bass, namely Eton units fitted with Vienna Acoustics spidercones of 8 inch diameter. The midrange is a coaxial 8 inch driver with a carbon fibre filled, air-dried paper cone, and the high frequencies come from a 1.2 inch silk dome coated by hand with a silicone layer, built in a Vienna Acoustics version. The quoted frequency response is 22 to 25,000 Hz, sensitivity is 90 dB and average impedance is 6 ohm, with amplifiers suggested from 50 to 500 watts. Each cabinet measures 218 x 1300 x 465 mm (width, height, depth) and the pair weighs 72 kg.

Engineering and use context

The concentric midrange is presented by Vienna Acoustics as a flat 18 cm driver covering seven octaves in a single, phase coherent time plane, so no crossover point falls inside the range of the human voice. Its cone is framed with radial ribs on one side only, a lightweight approach that raises rigidity while keeping weight low, and the design was refined with finite element analysis for phase alignment. A drawn aluminium swivel joint decouples the top unit from the bass chambers and lets the upper housing be raked and toed in toward the seat independently of the lower cabinet. The bass section is divided into three independent chambers, one for each woofer, so the drivers do not share an air volume. The cabinet is 1.3 m tall and close to half a metre deep, so it needs a room larger than 20 m2 to breathe.

Pairing

The average impedance is an easier load than a nominal 4 ohm speaker, which widens the choice of amplifiers, although the top of the recommended window suggests a high-current solid state design for large rooms. A separate preamplifier and stereo power amplifier, or a powerful integrated, suits the scale of the speaker, and its internal bass drivers remove the need for an external subwoofer.

Alternatives

The Liszt Reference is a more compact tower from Vienna Acoustics that also uses a coaxial midrange in an independent top module.