Vienna Acoustics Klimt The Kiss - Manual (Page 3)

Product Description
1.1 Technology
The Klimt Series™ loudspeakers feature an extensive list of new technologies.
Beginning with the new patented Flat-Spider-Cone™ midrange driver, special
care has been taken with the choice of materials and crafting. This driver is
created from a compound of several thermal plastic polymers as well as added
glass fibers. This material composition offers both a considerable stiffness to
mass ratio while also possessing the necessary self silencing necessary to ensure
a lack of coloration in sound reproduction. That is, the cone material itself is
virtually silent eliminating the need for notch type filters in the cross-over. The
goal is to eliminate the problem of cone resonances before they begin. Added to
the special material composition is the new flat design which further removes
the sonic signature of the driver by eliminating the cone diffraction of the cone
walls most often referred to as horn-loading. It is through the process of
concentrating on both physical construction or forming and with special quiet
materials that we are able to achieve this new level of performance that is free
of the normal mechanical limitations as well as resonances present in most
conventional midrange cone designs.
In addition to this entirely new flat midrange driver, we have installed a special,
hand crafted silk dome tweeter in its middle or pole location. Doing so allows for
a timing or phase correctness that cannot otherwise be achieved. Ultimately our
final complete coincident driver pairing is capable of reproducing the entire
human vocal range, and beyond, without any cross-over interference particularly
within the most critical human vocal range. The end result is a system that takes
on a presence which until now has only been available in compact monitors. A
further advantage of this design is the mentioned timing or phase correctness of
the overall combination. The complete assembly results in a dispersion
characteristic that creates much more of a “sweet area” versus the typical
“sweet spot” found in most designs. For this reason we prefer to describe this
entire assembly as the Music Center.
It is with this design ideal of concentrating on driver development in both the
mechanical and the material domains that the goal of a highly simplified cross-
over is achieved. As with our other designs, we begin with a first order cross-
over. This we believe allows us to achieve the most seamless integration of all of
the drivers into a single, cohesive whole. This is in part why we have chosen to
offer only the purest and simplest hook up interface of single-wire terminals.
Special care has also been taken with the formulation of the alloys used in these
propriety Vienna Acoustics speaker terminals to ensure the quietest connection
interface between speaker and speaker wire.
1.2 Construction
Each model within the Klimt Series™ features a top section or head which is a
completely sealed module of equal internal volumes. This construction allows us
to control and carefully position the critical Music Center. Holding this sealed