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Review of Giya G3's
There is a very nice review of Vivid's Gaya G3 speakers in the April 2014 issue of Stereophile by John Atkinson.
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Jim.......I haven't read the review yet but I just can't get past the shape. No matter what they sound like I could not live with the way they look. I'm sure they have their enthusiasts, just not me.
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The good thing for me is that not only do I find them hideous, but I found the sound wanting every time I heard them. So... no love lost there!
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Vivid makes a world class speaker, you should listen to them, you may change your mind...
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[QUOTE=jdandy;589612]Jim.......I haven't read the review yet but I just can't get past the shape. No matter what they sound like I could not live with the way they look. I'm sure they have their enthusiasts, just not me.
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I agree with you Dan. They might be great sounding speakers, but they are the ugliest speaker I've ever seen
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They look like a morphed Alien, I mean B&W Nautilus.
Last edited by GaryProtein; 03-14-2014 at 05:48 PM. |
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Since they were designed by one of the original Nautilus Tam, makes sense to me.
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Very interesting. I never knew there was a connection.
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Gary
I pulled this from a Stereophile article from about July 2010. Vivid Audio is not a familiar name to many audiophiles, but the company has its roots in one of the most iconic audio designs of all times, the B&W Nautilus. Among Vivid's owners are Robert Trunz, erstwhile co-owner of Bowers & Wilkins, and Laurence Dickie, who used to design B&W's drivers at their R&D facility in Steyning, England. When Trunz left B&W, in 1996, he emigrated to South Africa, where he met Philip Guttentag and Bruce and Dee Gessner, who had been in the retail hi-fi business but were now interested in building high-end loudspeakers in South Africa. Trunz suggested that they bring in Dickie to design drivers rather than rely on OEM designs. Vivid Audio launched their first products, the B1 and K1 floorstanders, in 2004. By 2006, the partners felt the range needed a flagship product, a design process that would take over 18 months before a prototype could be shown at the 2008 CES. |
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