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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: Living Voice Loudspeaker

Post Subject: Is Living Voice the Vitavox revival? MiniVan vs. JBLPosted by Romy the Cat on: 8/14/2009

I think guessing what the hell they did with tweeters would make since if whatever they did sound right. Since Living Voice’s is not the company that has a lot of exposure in US I do not think I will ever hear those speakers. Even if they have US representation then there are reasons why I would have very limited opportunity to hear them.

I kind of elevated the Living Voice up to the point of my interest and attention but with all honesty I do not see in them anything “dramatic” beside my interest that they the S2 driver. Since I use it as well it always interesting what kind result other folks were able to achieve with the same driver. It all might be educational; particularly knowing that Kevin is British and most likely deals very closely with Vitavox’s Mike. If Mike would live a few blocks from me then I would make him to make S2 without the problems the S2 has. Who knows, Kevin might do exactly that, even though I have my doubts.

My all doubts derive from the fact that Living Voice most likely decided to low-pass S2 and I disagree with it. Well, the time will show what is doing in, but for a time being the Living Voice is the only source that is trying to use Vitavox more or less commercially. I do not know if it is itself a big deal – Tanoy, RCA and Klipsh are still around but the only that that connect them with what they did in past is just the names. Will the Vitavox become the dead name of Mike will be able to revise it? In away, the Living Voice might be an illustration of it. Theoretically if Living Voice with let say 3 new productions of Vitavox drivers would turn out to be great speaker, not just get the stupid chocolate Stereophile and Soundstage medals but turn out to be a statement, THE Statement of timbral, tonal and dynamic capacity in loudspeaker then Living Voice might be a good opportunity for Vitavox to revise the journey, not to mention to make money. I still would like to see somebody make a driver that is able to throw under right condition timbre unmatched by anybody else and do not slip. Then put on the driver $30K price tag and challenge the world – “Match it!”.

Anyhow, let see how it goes. Serially Living Voice does not pushing anything offensively. I presume it will come with a separate LF channel. Deepens of the LF topology it might be a good speaker, something of Edgar Titan live if the Titan was not build for Moron and not used by Moron (that is very hard to find). Still, the Living Voice might use the famous US commercial: ”It's Not a simple MiniVan, baby” and promote themselves as : “It's Not a simple JBL, baby”. Well, now they need to make their speakers to make do not sound like just JBL…

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