Pro-Ject Strauss User Manual

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4. March 2004 
CABINETS 
 
Our speaker designs feature massive and inert cabinet 
construction. Vienna Acoustics cabinets are designed with the 
latest computer modelling 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 build construction using furniture grade 
finishing techniques and complex internal damping produce 
designs capable of accurately rendering music. 
 
 
CONNECTIONS 
 
The massive Vienna Acoustics input terminals are designed to 
accept banana plugs, spade terminals or bare wire connec-
tion. Make certain that all connections are well tightened 
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. We use gold plated terminals which do not 
oxidize, but contaminants or surface build-up on your spea-
ker cables and connectors may degrade sound quality. 
 
While it is popular among some audiophile circles to fit 
duplicate sets of binding posts for "bi-wiring", we have cho-
sen to follow sound engineering practises. Our crossovers are 
configured as an organic whole, intended to optimize every 
known aspect of driver integration.  
 
It is our belief that with the high quality of wire currently 
available, it is in most cases possible  to obtain  higher  
performance  from a single  run of superior cable to two lesser 
runs of cable. By keeping a single ground plane in our