Wooch,

I agree that the Vienna website is irritating. If the music that comes blaring out was Schoenberg, I think that would pretty much seal the coffin for it LOL.

The rumor is that they are re-designing it, but that's been the rumor for a while. Some other websites that have been crappy for years, despite having excellent products, are Odyssey Audio (http://www.odysseyaudio.com) and Von Schweikert (http://www.vonschweikert.com/_products.htm).

As a former Flash animator, I guess what is most irritating to me is that Flash sites are never timed to be intuitive, almost as if the person designing the site wasn't well trained. NHT is another example of good design, but poor timing (http://nhthifi.com/2006/s-s-ultimate.html). It's unfortunate that Flash is getting a bad rap because of bad designers.