LIVING VOICE R80 WILL LAUNCH AT AUDIO SHOW DELUXE NEXT MONTH

High End British HiFi brand, Living Voice, makers of the iconic Vox Olympian horn loudspeakers, has announced a new floorstanding speaker which will launch at the Audio Show Deluxe.

Lynn and Kevin Scott of Living Voice and Definitive Audio have given us a sneaky peak of the new Living Voice R80.

LIVING VOICE R80 LOUDSPEAKER

Kevin told us: “We wanted to create a speaker that combined the lyricism, coherence, and innate musicality of the OBX-RW4, with the scale, dynamic range, and visceral thrill of the Vox Olympian. To reach our goal we chose a symmetrical mid / treble / mid (MTM) two- way driver topology in a reflex-loaded enclosure using two state-of-the-art 8’’ bass/mid drivers and 34mm tweeter. We set out on this path three years ago and here we are – the R80 is born”.

The past twelve months has seen Kevin and the team making painstaking incremental progress and seemingly endless iterative developments on both the cabinet tuning and crossover of the new Living Voice R80.

The Living Voice R80 Loudspeaker …these pictures are the final prototype

CABINET CONSTRUCTION

The unique cabinet construction of the R80 is a development of what Living Voice have evolved for the Auditorium Series over the past 30 years and translates into this new design, being stiff, light, and diffusive. The R80’s form factor is clean and simple, relying on classic golden ratio proportions and formal relationships, making for what Living Voice say they hope is a timeless appearance.

SENSITIVITY

Although official specifications are not yet available we know that the new Living Voice R80 Loudspeaker has a sensitivity in the mid 90’s, plus an “even and very benign impedance characteristic”. It has been designed to bring the most out of partnering electronics and plays to the strengths of single ended triode electronics. As with all Living Voice loudspeakers the precision calibrated crossover components are largely proprietary and are either made by hand in-house or by specialist suppliers.

The R80 will launch at HiFi Show Deluxe

AUDIO SHOW DELUXE 2023

Find out more at the Audio Show Deluxe at Whittlebury Park on the 25th and 26th of March.

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