Very impressive 3-Way Floorstanding Speakers from NHT VT-1.2

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Very impressive 3-Way Floorstanding Speakers from NHT VT-1.2

Name: Very impressive 3-Way Floorstanding Speakers from NHT VT-1.2
Brand: NHT
SKU: 7762
Price: 795.00 CAD
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Categories: Used/Vintage, Speakers, Towers / Floor-Standers

Description

Very impressive 3-Way Floorstanding Speakers from NHT boasting extreme performance in a compact footprint.

Design and Sound

Radique’s Take: We’re huge fans of NHT. We’ve recommended their slim form factor 3-Way towers to numerous customers looking for great sounding, unobtrusive floorstanders, and some of our own team members use them in their primary home systems.

From NHT

“NHT speakers are designed to deliver refined, musical sound from attractive and affordable packages. Our efforts are guided by the study of human hearing and are optimized for real-world use. Every NHT loudspeaker undergoes rigorous testing and quality control at the factory to ensure you years of listening pleasure.

Designed as a smaller and more affordable counterpart to NHT’s revolutionary VT-2 Audio / Video Reference Speaker, theVT-1.2 incorporates many of its larger sibling’s technologies, including an easily accessible Audio / Video switch on the front panel. The VT-1.2’s are designed to provide high-performance sound when used as main L-R speakers in five-channel home theater systems.

Inside the VT-1.2 are two separate chambers. The midrange and high frequency drivers are housed in a sealed sub-enclosure and located on a narrow front baffle. The 8-inch long-throw subwoofer is housed in a separate vented enclosure and is mounted on the side of the cabinet for consistent bass loading.

The Audio / Video Switch on the front baffle of the VT-1.2 makes it an ideal speaker for combined audio / video systems. The “Audio” mode (A) provides impressive imaging for music playback, while the “Video” mode (V) broadens the soundfield horizontally for a diffuse, ambi-ent presentation. This “smearing” of the sound in the “Video” mode greatly minimizes the occurrence of cognitive dissonance, a psychoacoustical phenomenon which occurs when a nonscreen visual image is accompanied by a sound that is placed offscreen in a precise location. NHT’s Audio / Video switch is a means for optimizing the speaker during home theater use to minimize cognitive dissonance, which confuses sensory perception and can compromise the realism of the experience.”

Model VT-1.2 Specifications – System Type: 3-way vented design

– Driver Complement: 8” long-throw subwoofer, two 4.5” midranges, 1” fluid-cooled soft dome tweeter, video shielded (upper portion only)

– Crossover: 120Hz 6dB/octave high-pass and 12dB/octave low-pass

Audio mode: 2.2KHz 12dB/octave high-pass and low-pass Video mode: 2.2KHz 12dB/octave high-pass and 6db/octave low-pass –

Response: 33Hz – 21KHz, +/- 3dB –

Sensitivity: 86db (2.83V at 1M) –

Impedance: 8 ohms nominal, 5 ohms minimum –

Recommended Amplifier Power : 35W/ch minimum, 200W/ch maximum

– Inputs: 1 pair of 5-way binding posts for woofer input 1 pair of 5-way binding posts for mid/high input

– Dimensions: 38”H x 5.5’W x 15.75″D, Weight: 42 Ibs. each

Condition

Asking $795 for these very impressive slim profile NHT Floorstanders in very good condition. Original Packaging available.

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Additional information

Weight	91 lbs
Dimensions	19.75 × 17 × 42 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.