Vienna Acoustics WALTZ Grand User manual

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 Grand, the same outstanding veneer wrapping technique as for all our other
speakers is used, and the same high grade quality in finish and workmanship is
executed.
Just like all the other Vienna Acoustics speakers, WALTZ Grand features massive and
inert cabinet construction. Vienna Acoustics cabinets 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 designs 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 degradation 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 Grand we use 4 mm banana connectors which do not oxidize, but
contaminants or surface build-up on your speaker cables and connectors may degrade
sound quality. The speaker comes with a set of two banana plugs in which the wire is
inserted and held in place by screwing down the insert post. WALTZ Grand offers two
possibilities 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 cabling 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.
Though rated amplifier wattage bears little correlation to either sound quality or drive
capability, the user is cautioned that amplifiers of low wattage ratings, when stressed
beyond their limits will produce audible amounts of distortion.
This distortion can and will damage loudspeaker components and will not be covered by
warranty.
BURNING IN OR BREAKING IN
NEW LOUDSPEAKERS
Your loudspeakers contain a large number of precisions built moving parts. These parts
require playing time initially to develop their maximum smoothness and extension.
Very audible improvements can be observed during about 30 hours of playing. Additional
improvements will be evident after 100 hours of playing time, at which point the
speakers have reached their full musical potential.
POSITIONING
Room acoustics and positioning of a speaker within the room have an important effect
on sound quality.
WALTZ Grand offers the possibility of beautiful integration in any living room without
taking away space. This is made possible without compromising sound quality, because
WALTZ Grand has been designed and developed for placement close to the wall,
factoring in the influences on the sound of the speaker that this positioning will have.
The strikingly angled walls of the cabinet provide lots of mounting placement options:
1. OnWall application:
8 positions:
4 x 90 degrees, and in each of the 4 positions is the possibility to angle WALTZ Grand
towards or away from the listener, or parallel to the wall.
2. Stand alone application, for placing on top of a TV or in a bookshelf.

ACCESSORIES IN PAPER BOX
Wall mounting device: 1 pc. for on-wall application.
Knurled screws: 2 pcs. for connecting the cabinet with the wall mounting device.
Banana plugs: 2 pcs. for connecting the speaker cables.
Teethed washer: 2 pcs.
must be used to prevent loosening of the knurled screws.
American wall mounting screws plus wall mounting anchors: 2 pcs.
European wall mounting screws plus wall mounting anchors: 2 pcs.
Transparent rubber feet: 4 pcs.
for stand alone application only! for protection of the cabinet-bottom, if not wall
mounting.

MOUNTING
àAfter placing the wall-mounting anchor into the wall, fix the wall-mounting device
with the wall mounting screws.
ATTENTION:
Use the inner, longer hole of the wall-mounting device for vertical positioning.
Use the outer, round hole just for center position (horizontal positioning).
Center position (horizontal)
Vertical positioning
guide ways
àPut the teethed washer on the knurled screws.
ATTENTION:
The teethed washers are very important to prevent loosening of the knurled screws.
àPosition the knurled screws halfway into the inserts of the cabinet.
àNow you can put the speaker into the guide ways of the wall-mounting device and
tighten the knurled screws strongly.
ATTENTION:
Please make sure that the teethed washer sticks between the knurled screw and the
wall-mounting device.
Please make sure, that the knurled screws securely snap into the right position.

1 Knurled screws
2Teeth washers
3Wall mounting device
ATTENTION:
For safety reasons it is necessary to check the knurled screws, which fix the speaker
to the wall-mounting device, twice a year.
Keeping the speaker secure depends:
1. on the force you are able to apply on the screw
2. on the correct positioning of the teeth washer: between the knurled screw and the
black wall-mounting device.
ROOM TREATMENT
Good sounding rooms have a well-balanced acoustic. This does not mean that your
home should look like a recording studio.
Commonly found furnishings such as book-shelves, carpeting and furniture all exhibit
beneficial amounts of absorption and disper-sion. Rooms with little furniture, carpeting
or other surfaces will demonstrate poor dam-ping and will produce a hard, bright sound.
For WALTZ we recommend to test a few positions, because it can make a huge diffe-
rence in sound, where the speaker is at-tached to the wall. Some places can produce
excess or insufficient bass. A difference of only 30 cm can allow for superior perfor-
mance.
It is also recommended, that the area around your speakers is uncluttered, allowing for
unobstructed dispersion of the audio signal.
MAINTENANCE
Your speaker cabinets can be cleaned periodically with a soft, damp cloth. It is not
necessary to wax them. Please keep them out of direct sunlight and heat, since the
colour of the veneer could fade. Should the bass drivers become dusty, it is safe to use
a soft brush to clean the woofers.
Under NO circumstances you should attempt to clean dust from the tweeter. Doing so
will damage the delicate silk domes.
Happy listening!