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Great Sounding NHT 3-Driver Slim Towers VT-1

Name: Great Sounding NHT 3-Driver Slim Towers VT-1
Brand: NHT
SKU: 7772
Price: 345.00 CAD
Availability: InStock

$345.00

Two 4.5-inch high-compliance woofers and a 1-inch fabric dome per column, crossed at 2.8 kHz — 90 dB, 120 watts at 8 ohms, 40 inches tall on a 5.5-inch footprint at 21 lbs each. High gloss piano black, rear ported, gold-plated 5-way posts and removable metal carpet spikes. These come without grilles, which is why they are $345 rather than the usual $395.

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Categories: Used/Vintage, Speakers, Towers / Floor-Standers

Description

Great Sounding NHT 3-Driver Slim Towers finished in NHT’s Distinctive high Gloss Piano Black

The VT-1’s are impressive speakers, particularly for their modest / modern form factor. When driven with a good quality amplifier, they sound much larger than they look.

They are magnetically shielded, rear ported, and boast gold-plated 5-Way bindings suitable for banana plugs, and removeable metal carpet Spikes.

2-Way Shielded Tuned Column Loading Floor Standers

Driver Complement: 2 x 4.5″ High Compliance Woofers, 1″ Fabric Dome Tweeter

Crossover: 2.8 KHz, using low loss, low distortion components.

Sensitivity: 90 dB

Power Handling of 120 Watts @ 8 Ohms Impedance (5 Ohms minimum)

Frequency Range: 65Hz to 21KHz +/- 3dB

Dimensions: 40″ H x 5.5″ W x 5.5″ D, Weight: 21 lbs each.

We normally list this model for $395, but have reduced this pair as they do not include speaker grills. Asking just $345 for these attractive and great sounding towers from California’s Well-Regarded Now Hear This (NHT)

$345.00

Additional information

Weight	45 lbs
Dimensions	9.5 × 17 × 44 in

About brand

NHT at Radique

We service NHT, too. Bring us your own NHT speakers and subwoofers for repair, servicing or restoration (speakers up to 80 lbs each), with a 90-day warranty on the work. See our Audio Service page

NHT was founded in Benicia, California, in 1986 by Chris Byrne and engineer Ken Kantor, and the name stands for Now Hear This. We carry NHT bookshelf speakers, towers, centre channels and subwoofers. We've had more than 40 NHT listings so far, covering more than 25 different models. Every used NHT here is inspected, tested and serviced as required, then photographed in-house and covered by our Bumper-to-Bumper Warranty and Perpetual Trade-Back Program. Don't see the model you want? Tell us on First Dibs and we'll email you when one arrives.

The NHT models we've sold most often include the Three and SuperOne bookshelf speakers, the SW2 and Ten subwoofers and the 2.9 tower.

The NHT story

Chris Byrne, who had been Pioneer Electronics' vice-president of marketing, and engineer Ken Kantor, whose career had taken in Acoustic Research, Boston Acoustics and NAD, founded NHT in Benicia, California, in 1986. Its speakers were known for front baffles angled at 21 degrees, which NHT called Focused Image Geometry.

Jensen and Rockford. In 1990 NHT was sold to International Jensen, which also owned AR and Advent and let NHT keep its design independence. The four-way 3.3 flagship followed in the early 1990s, Kantor left in 1997 after designing the 2.9 tower, and by 2004 NHT was part of Rockford Corporation.

Today. Secrets of Home Theater calls the Classic Three of the mid-2000s NHT's best-selling model, and the C Series followed it. NHT is still based in Benicia, making acoustic-suspension and in-ceiling speakers. Chris Byrne died in December 2025.

Which NHT is which?

Original Model line (late 1980s to early 1990s): from the Model 1 to the four-way 3.3, with slim baffles angled at 21 degrees.

2.9 tower (by 1997): Ken Kantor's last NHT design, with separate terminals for bi-amplifying its woofers.

Super series: the SuperZero, SuperOne and SuperTwo, often paired with the SW2 subwoofer.

Subwoofers: the SW2 with its MA-1A amplifier, and the Classic Ten and Classic Twelve.

VT home theatre towers: such as the VT-1 and VT-3.

Classic Series (mid-2000s to 2016) and C Series: including the Classic Three.

Buying used NHT: what to check

Stabilizer bars and spikes. NHT towers such as the VT-3 and SuperTwo rely on stabilizer bars or spikes, so check they come with the pair.

Amplifier match. NHT says underpowered amplifiers are the most common cause of speaker damage, so check the tweeters on any pair that ran on a small receiver.

Subwoofer amps. If an MA-1A's front light doesn't come on, an internal fuse may have blown. On a Classic Ten or Twelve, check that the line-voltage setting is 120 V.

Baffle foam. The original angled models have anti-diffraction foam strips on the baffle, so check they are there.

Everything we list is inspected, tested and serviced as required here, and comes with our warranty.