silky smooth highs, perfect balance in mid-range, beautiful workmanship. these guys sound large and just melt into your room. Detail is unmatched

None that aren't apparent with most bookshelves. If anything the bass, but hey, it's a bookshelf, not a sub.

You owe it to yourself to give the entire vienna line a listen before you buy any system. The haydns stood out tremendously for me. Every time I went to test another bookshelf, I always end up back with the viennas. Beautiful, nicely weighted cabinetry is only matched by the superb sound that just oozes out of these guys! Detail and imaging is virtually unmatched in the industry for a speaker of this size. The silk domes are unreal and actually are used in othetr speakers that cost 3-4x as much.

to sum up: these guys get as close to live as you can get. MOVIES are absolutely superb when you use these as fronts and rears. The center is also a must to complete the system. DO NOT MIX WITH OTHER BRANDS!!! The viennas will pick apart any weakness found in another make of speaker. That is how good they are!! Get a good sub and enjoy!
MUSIC is superb as well. They can handle anything you throw at em. Rock, r&b, classical, concert...no problem. These are the most diversified speakers on the market.

The great thing with these is that you don't have to do any surgery with them. They can't be bi-wired and they don't need to be. Just plug them in and let them do their job. Other speakers like b&w's need surgery to get their full potential and still can't get to where the viennas are. The closest to them are the b&w's cdm1nt's, but I feel the haydns are a little bit smoother and definately better looking.

They list at $1000 at tweeter, but remember my friends, they work on commission and are willing to drop them down to 850 or 900 if you push the issue.

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I agree with Robert Poole review that the VA Haydn are among the best in their class. I auditioned these speakers at local store driven by Manley amps and Sonic Frontiers front-end. The sound was incredible with transparent midrange and smooth treble. Bass was tight and very well-defined but didn't go low enough for organ and large scale orchestra, and they also sounded congested when you listen at a very high-level. These limitations seem natural enough for a small monitor with 5.5" woofer, plus an excellent subs such as the REL should be able to overcome these. I don't think that the Haydn are sensitive to placement. During my audition of these speakers, they were placed in less than ideal position but still offer an exceptional imaging, which I think is their best trait. A real bargain overall.

I am so pleased to have a chance to write regards Haydn.
I bought a Rosewood Vienna Acoustic Haydn for a thousand USD in Seoul.

I have been using a dozen of bookself monitor speakers for ten years,
ever since, I trust everybody so love this narrow speaker.

Ten days, a month, whatever it goes, it will give you a great pleasure
pf listening music.

Quite frankly, your dinner will be held at Radisson Hotel in London
every single day... always... wherever you are in your home.

Good matching speaker with many sort of amplifier, possibly, need a good
stand for your lady.

Lovely speaker I have ever had, good value for money.

I believe Haydn to be the largest single influence in creating
good music atmosphere at your home or room.

Kisung Nam from Seoul, Korea

I had achance to review the entire Vienna line, including the Hayden, as well as some other high quality speakers (Martin Logans and Sonus Fabers). My initial impressions of the entire Vienna line was quite favourable, especially the Hayden a this price. The sound seemed open and full, however, there was a noticeable mid-bass hump at about 50 Hz. The back-up equipment was of high quality (Sunfire Amp and new tube stage pre-amp, Sony XA7ES CD player, Audioquest silver cables) Next in line was the Sonus Faber Concertino, as these were the same price. The Concertino's abolutely sparkled! They had the same high frequency resolution and extension as the Hayden, without the siblants that I found in the Hayden. Also the Concertino's exposed a very "cuppy" or "muffled" midrange that masked over female vocals. Also the Sonus Fabers did not possess the mid-bass hump that the Hayden's did. The lack of bass extension in both of these speakers was solved when I listened to the Conus Faber Concerto's. All the same qualities of the Concertino's, with better bass extension. finally, I auditioned the Martin Logan Aerius II's. WOW! Aboslutely fabulous for the money. The sheer transparency of the upper frequencies was spooky. I did notice a little of the bass integration problem, but not enough to take away from the positive aspects of this great speaker.As for the Vienna Hayden, and the entire line right up to the Mozart, I found that they had a slightly veiled midrange and peaky top end. The bass was full and lush, but also very humpy at 50 hz, as is typical with 5.5" woofers. The cabinets are outstanding, but the sound is disappointing. for my money, I'll go with the Sonus Fabers or, if my pocket book will allow, the Martin Logans.

These are fantastic Speakers. I'm looking at buying them but the only place i can find any where that sells it is tweeters. Is there anywhere online?

Craftsmanship,sound and pretty darn nice to look at.

None so far.

I use these fine speakers for my rears and they perform very well in handling the current demands of dts movie soundtracks. I really tried them as main speakers but I'm sure they would be great combined with a good subwoofer to provide the low frequencies.
For STEPHEN the previous reviewer, HARVEYonline sells the entire line of Vienna's. Happy shopping.

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NHT 1.5

Recently purchased these speakers and have been completely satisfied. They possess an exceptionally wide soundstage for their size and bring out all the nuances of a quality recording.Although their larger floorstanding brethren like the mozart and the beethoven are superior in terms of extension and sounstaging ,if you possess a limited budget or a small room ,nothing else comes close.

After auditioning various speakers to be used for music as well as for home theater for the past few weeks, I came across these speakers and they are excellent. I've listened to speakers in the $500 range which included NHT Superone, PSB Alphas, Atlantic Technology, KEF Q15, Paradigm mini monitors among others. I think in this price range the Paradigms can't be beat. Nice full range sounding speakers. A little punchy and bassy but not bad at all. Good for movies and music listening. When I moved up to the $1,000 range, I've listened to this speaker and compared it side by side to the Sonus Faber Concertino which is also in the same price range. The sound on these speakers are definitely more crisp and detailed than the $500 speakers. This speaker for me is better than the Sonus. Don't get me wrong. My friend was also listening to the same speakers and he prefers the Sonus over the Vienna's. I think the Sonus has good top range and good bottom range with some decent bass going but lacks a full sounding mid range especially on the vocals on some of the music. The bass tends to drown out the midrange. The Vienna is a brighter speaker and if you prefer good highs, excellent mids and decent bass (but not lacking), this is the one to get. I just wished the Vienna have a little more bass. I'm not sure how it will sound with the sub. If your emphasis is on bass then you might want to consider the Sonus. I personnaly prefer the Vienna's. It just brings good separation of music, crisp and very detailed. If you listen to classical, jazz, R&B and pop this is for you. If you listen to rock, then you might consider the Sonus Faber Concertino.

After ridding myself of my NHT 2.5i speakers, I had purchased a pair of Infinity Compositions Overture 1 speakers. The Overture 1's were good, but after extended in-home listening (over a period of weeks), I became less and less impressed with them. So the Infinity speakers went back to Circuit City, and I started going to Hi Fi shops again. (Lesson well learned.)
I listened to floor-standing and bookshelf/monitor speakers from a variety of manufacturers. Paradigm, Linn, Tannoy, etc. Paradigm makes a nice mini-monitor in their top-of-the-line reference series, which runs for about $800/pair. These were nice. Linn makes the Tukans, which I like well enough, but which don't compare to others in their price range IMHO (you need to put them right up against a wall to bass-load them, and doing so muddies the sound and makes the speakers less transparent). Tannoy has some monitors that are really nice, tasty sounding.

However, my favorite speaker of all the smaller speakers I've auditioned has to be the Vienna Acoustics Haydn. It's a narrow speaker, designed to have a minimum baffle. It's 2-way. The Haydn sports a silk-dome tweeter and a transparent polymer woofer of high quality. It's a ported bass-reflex design.

The Haydn, surprisingly, has louder bass than the Overture 1's when they're set at their normal settings. I attribute this to the excellent woofer driver used and the ported design. The Haydn also is more transparent, incredibly so at times; I love the subtle nuances it reveals in music, even music I've listened to extensively on a variety of systems. In short, they sound gorgeous, especially on Jazz and orchestral/instrumental music. They even do justice to hard rock! That's a tough trick to pull off with small speakers.

There are better speakers out there, certainly, especially when you start looking at the floor-standing speaker arena. But in their price range ($1000/pair), and in their size range, they're worth every penny.

A few caveats: They are sensitive to placement, though not as much as some other speakers. They have a long break-in period (30 hours initial break-in, then 100 hours after that for additional improvements in the sound to be noticed). They're not the best speakers for home theater. (In this regard, the Overture 1's were a better choice.) You'll also need a high-quality stand for these guys. And finally, their placement will need to change as they break in.

Super overall sound. Very accurate so much so that poorly recorded CD's and tapes are hard to listen to. They are small and the cabinets are beautifully finished. They have a very adequate bass and an excellent high end.

Be sure and allow time to break them in.

At least listen to them at store and take them home for a trail. You won't be disappointed

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