While other companies rely on endless measurements, British company Living Voice designs its famous loudspeakers using the most precise instrument of all - the human ear.
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British sound design company Living Voice was established in 1991 with the goal to manufacture ultra high performance audio products for the most critical music lovers.
The Living Voice Auditorium Series of loudspeakers has been designed to provide the committed music enthusiast with a coherent, artistically convincing and emotionally engaging experience. The Auditorium Series consists of four models with the option of inboard (IBX) or outboard (OBX) crossover electronics on the two top models.
It's important to anyone with a passion for music that their hi-fi system has a natural tonal balance and more importantly an even and consistent dynamic balance. Many people and technophiles in particular, believe that this balance can be achieved through objective quantitative analysis. At Living Voice they have a different outlook. The company develops products using natural musical sensibility, and their experts measure progress against the artistic expression and emotional communication that we all are able to see in recordings of great musical performances.
Ironically, by working backwards in this way, Living Voice found that its finished designs stand the closest possible objective analysis. All of the Avatar models have even, benign impedance characteristic, high sensitivity and extremely wide, even dispersion - very desirable objective characteristics. The simple elegantly proportioned cabinets of the Auditorium Series conceal an obsessive approach to the complex problems of loudspeaker design.
Each model shares the same external dimensions, rear venting and mid-treble-mid drive unit configuration. The advances in performance as you move through the hierarchy are determined by improvements to the circuit topology, driver quality, the cabinet construction and crossover component quality. The unusual bass-mid drivers employ shallow profile light paper diaphragms, light narrow diameter voice coils and light foam suspension terminations. These unusual physical characteristics allow the reproduction of music with the finest touch and filigree.
The above average sensitivity of 94dB and benign load impedance facilitate the use of superior quality class "A" valve amplification. All Auditorium loudspeakers have been developed using valve electronics including the peerless Kondo KSL electronics from Japan. ■