Vienna Acoustics The Kiss

Data

General

• Manufacturer: Vienna Acoustics
• Model: The Kiss / Der Kuss
• Years of manufacture:
• Made in:
• Color:
• Dimensions: 273mm/10.75" x 540mm/21.3" x 540mm/21.3" (W x H x D).
• Weight:
  • Weight per top: 43kg
  • Weight per stand: 23kg
• Original price approx.: UVP 12,000 €

Technical Data

• Type: 3-way stand system mounted, integrated subwoofer
• Chassis:
  • Bass driver 23cm patented Vienna Acoustics spider cone.
  • Mid - Tweeter Coincident 18cm patented Vienna Acoustics flat spider cone
• Power handling (rated/music b.):
• Efficiency:
• Frequency Response: 38Hz - 20kHz.
• Transient response: (for LS with multiple drivers).
• Impedance: 6 Ohm, nominal

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Remarks

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Reports

• imagehifi issue 2/2011; single test: without final score.
  • „... The Kiss offers thanks to exquisite driver placement, precision engineering and musically oriented tuning truly superb all-round qualities, at the appropriate price. ... Noble, helpful and extremely good!"
• hifi& records issue 1/2010; single test: without final score
  • „... for me ... Der Kuss is as close to the ideal audiophile loudspeaker as any, effortlessly combining the clean imaging of a studio monitor that I love with the detail, high musical tension and perfect flow of a high-end, high-powered creation ..."
• stereoplay issue 8/2009; ranked 3/4 in the test: "good - very good" (78 out of 100 points) Price/performance: "good - very good"
  • "Large compact speaker with flat coax and three-way technology. Tonally emphatically independent, powerful dynamics, fascinatingly accurate spatiality."