Vivid Audio in Munich
 

Very Nice!

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Would like to spend some time in that room. The speakers look great in white.

What electronics?

CH Precision!

for me is amazing. a Friend that have listen this system in München say that is not good:sigh:

I have listen the CH Precision in combination with Meitner: one of the best player available.

Vivid? i like.

Every room that had Vivid demo were outstanding in Munich!
To me only the look of them is hard to compose with....:icon_thumbsdown:

More images from the show!
 

Here are some other images from the show - a very successful show for us. It's really great to meet fellow Vivideers, fans and enthusiasts. I think that being able to explain in person why it is that we do what we do is really important, and so many people were surprised when they found that there's really solid engineering and science behind our shapes and forms!

Graeme, thank you for sharing!

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I'm amazed those speaker cables actually fit in the cutouts in the base!

I had a good look at the picture; the speaker is not on its usual spikes but on metal discs, elevating it higher off the floor. That might be why the cables fit in the cutouts. Graeme, which discs did you use under the speakers, and did it make a difference in sound?

Hi Tompy

I asked about the disks - they were there to get the tweeter height up a bit to improve the sound heard by the second and third row of chairs. Ideally a plinth should have been used.

Because we mount our bass drivers in a reaction cancelling arrangement, spikes have no effect whatsoever on our speakers. No vibrations are transmitted to the cabinet and thus there is no need to couple it to the ground as spikes do. We provide spikes mostly to aid stability on carpets and also obviously because most people want them, but they provide no acoustic enhancement.

The other interesting thing about using reaction cancellation is that because there is no vibration transmitted, our cabinets can be made lighter. This is hugely advantageous as the heavier your cabinet is, the lower the primary harmonic resonance. The lower it is, the more likely it is to be excited by the bass drivers which possess the highest kinetic energy of all drivers. Making the cabinet light allows us to push this modal frequency up, further and further away from the highest energy source and therefore avoiding this common cabinet problem.

If we didn't cancel out the driver reactions, we would be forced to make the cabinets heavy, and thus miss out on a really crucial advantage, one that really benefits the acoustic performance .

Next time you play Vivid speakers really loud, put your hand on the cabinets and appreciate just how "dead" they are. They're not contributing to the acoustic waveform and since they have a lot of surface area, even a small contribution can really mess with the intended output.