Vienna Mozart Grand or Beethoven Baby Grand


Anyone compared these two? I am trying my friends old Mozart (the pre-Grand model) and its really good but considering stepping up to the Beethoven Baby Grand. I have a Moon I-3RS amp, goes really well with the Mozarts.

Also the Hifi News Aug 08 review of the Beethoven Baby Grand suggests it could be a demanding amp load as the minimum impedance gets down to 1.5ohms (average is 4ohms). Does anyone know what this means? My amp, the Simaudio moon I-3RS is rated 200W at 2ohm - could the speakers damage the amp when the impedance gets low?
Thanks for your help in advance.
acdvd

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ACDVD,
I suggest you give a call to Kevin Deal at Upscale Audio. He is the man. I have my Baby Beethovens hooked up to a Primaluna Dialogue two integrated amp at around 40 tube watts per channel. Upscale Audio has this combo in their main demo room. I could not live without it after I heard it. In fact, Jim Hannon from the absolute sound wrote of the 2007 CES report "The smaller Vienna Acoustics
Beethoven Baby Grand ($3500), in the PrimaLuna room,
was one of the best-sounding, value-oriented systems I heard at the show, driven by PrimaLuna’s Prologue 2 integrated amplifier"
Vienna Accoustics wrote in owners manual "our speakers demonstrate outstanding sonic results with a variety of amplifier types. They feature a combination of high efficiency and gentle impedence curves that allow them to be used with either solid state or tube electronics."
I hope that helps