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March 14, 2024, 10:40 AM #1Audioshark
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New Vivid
How did a company go from building beautiful, graceful, elegant speakers to this fugly monstrosity?
Reportedly $465k. M1
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March 14, 2024, 10:43 AM #2Senior Member
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Re: New Vivid
Best sound, looks be damned? Actually, I'd rather look at these than the Beolab 90s! But then, that's faint praise.
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March 14, 2024, 10:48 AM #3Audioshark
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Re: New Vivid
Who knows? Looks like the took the Tekton approach. 13 drivers.
Originally Posted by slowgeezr
I think the Giya series looks elegant and sounds great. These?
. A monstrosity. I don’t get it.
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March 14, 2024, 10:51 AM #4Senior Member
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Re: New Vivid
I hear you. A very good friend of mine went from the Giya G2 to the G1Spirit and they are both graceful in appearance and beautiful in sound.
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March 14, 2024, 11:05 AM #5Senior Member
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Re: New Vivid
Expectations, you want both looks and sound for only $465K, LOL
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March 14, 2024, 11:26 AM #6Senior Member
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Re: New Vivid
Just stumbled across this video that provides insight into the design; (text below is from the caption of the video)
"Laurence Dickie is a true hi-fi originator. While employed at Bowers & Wilkins in the 1980s to early 1990s, he invented the company’s patented Matrix-enclosure and tapered-tube technologies. He also designed the legendary Nautilus loudspeaker, which debuted in 1993 and is still produced by Bowers & Wilkins today.
In 2004, Laurence Dickie cofounded Vivid Audio with Philip Guttentag. Since then, the company has carried on producing innovative speaker designs unlike anything that the world has ever seen. Now, after 20 years, Dickie has designed a new flagship speaker, the Moya M1. As this video explains, the Moya M1 is a five-way design with eight woofers, which not only provide astonishing bass depth, but also an effortlessness to the sound that no speaker has been able to convey before. Watch this video to learn how Laurence Dickie arrived at this innovative driver arrangement."
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March 14, 2024, 02:29 PM #7Senior Member
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Re: New Vivid
don't care what they sound like, I wouldn't own those
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March 14, 2024, 03:47 PM #8Senior Member
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Re: New Vivid
A true test for the well heeled only-the-sound-matters crowd.
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March 14, 2024, 05:28 PM #9Senior Member
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March 14, 2024, 05:30 PM #10Senior Member
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Re: New Vivid
They look like Jay's wet dream...
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Re: New Vivid
Good lord...eek!
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Re: New Vivid
Wow
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Re: New Vivid
gorgeous, a no brainer
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March 14, 2024, 09:03 PM #14Senior Member
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Re: New Vivid
I would never spend that much so they are simply a curiosity like all the other top of the heap/money grab speakers. I would like to hear them however.
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March 15, 2024, 09:54 AM #15Senior Member
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Re: New Vivid
I think they're cool looking, plus in person stuff usually looks better. That brown / red's gotta go though...
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March 15, 2024, 10:25 AM #16Senior Member
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Re: New Vivid
My sentiment exactly. Originally Posted by Mike
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Re: New Vivid
Funny as in some WhatsApp group I'm in, I used those same exact words for this "creation"... Originally Posted by Mike
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Matching headphones?
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This is a similar reaction to a new BMW design ….. the front end may be fugly, but the performance is exhilarating!!
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March 19, 2024, 07:28 PM #20Senior Member
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Re: New Vivid
Natural evolution of the specie, Mike! Originally Posted by Mike
How did a company go from building beautiful, graceful, elegant speakers to this fugly monstrosity?
Amazing!
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