AIR VIVACE LOUDSPEAKER LAUNCHES AT CAPE TOWN HIFI EXPO 2024

The Air Vivace Loudspeaker launched at Cape Town HiFi Expo 2024.

A HiFi Show in South Africa, the Cape Town HiFi Expo 2024 took place over the weekend of the 25^th to 27^th of October. The event was organised by the Cape Town HiFi Club.

CAPE TOWN AUDIO EXPO 2024

AirMusic and Stereo-Direct were showcasing how one can transform living spaces into beautiful sanctuaries where we can fully immerse ourselves in sound.

The team, who organised the CTHifiexp2022, took part in this year’s Expo in Cape Town in Newlands that attracted the industry and enthusiasts with gear catering to every budget and taste. This year’s emphasis was crafting a welcoming listening environment and introducing the Triangle loudspeakers to South Africa.

TRIANGLE, JADIS AND ACCUPHASE

 In the exhibition they featured systems including the Triangle Antal 40th Anniversary speaker, with Holo Audio’s digital chain, Accuphase amplification, the Jadis I35i, and Accuphase E4000. The Triangle Comete 40th Anniversary speaker also put in an appearance.

“I want to extend my heartfelt thanks to all the friends and partners of AirMusic and Stereo-Direct for their unwavering support. Your contributions, from Per Skaaning’s invaluable assistance over the past 20 years to the skilled craft and manufacturing businesses in Cape Town that helped make our dream a reality is deeply appreciated. To the AirMusic, Stereo-Direct and Vivace teams, your dedication, hard work, and friendship mean the world to me, and inspire us to share our passion for music.

We would also like to thank the music lovers who joined us over the weekend; we truly appreciate your company. We had a great time, and we hope you did too! And not to be forgotten I also want to express my gratitude to the rest of the audio industry in South Africa for showing up in full force, and especially the event organizers, the Cape Town HiFi Club”.

Stefan Botes of AirMusic

AIR VIVACE LOUDSPEAKER LAUNCH

Air Loudspeakers unveiled the Air Vivace loudspeaker, which has been developed in South Africa over the past few years. The Air Vivace is entirely designed and built in South Africa and has a striking, functional design,

 The design is a 3-way system designed to be compatible with valve amplifiers, including single-ended triodes (SETs). It is constructed around Audio Technology drivers, some of which were customized specifically for this project. The cabinet features a Carbon Fiber core and a distinct carbon fibre midrange capsule with an organic shape with no parallel walls. These enclosures are integrated into a high-mass aluminium baffle, top and bottom plates secured together using aluminium rods. A port tuned for lowest distortion levels make sure that system sound at its best even at moderate listening levels. The design is completed with solid walnut panels and slates, demonstrating the principles of constraint layer throughout the construction. The Air-Interfaces, which serve as the speaker’s feet, were specially designed and produced from carbon fibre, also based on constraint layer principles.

 AIR VIVACE LOUDSPEAKER SPECS

3 ways system: 230 mm bass driver 156 mm midrange driver 25 mm ringradiatior tweeter

89dB sensitivity

6-ohm nominal impedance

Frequency response 33 Hz to 30 kHz

Crossovers: Second-order Linkwitz–Riley phase phased optimised acoustic slopes with Mundorf components, including a zero ohm bass inductor

Enclosure:

Main enclosure: Monolithic Carbon  fibre carcass with Hexcel Honeycomb core damped with visco-elastic aluminium tape

Optimised midrange carbon fibre capsule with no parallel surfaces

Baffle: precision-engineered 20mm aluminium with optimes tweeter waveguide

Top and bottom plates: 20mm aluminium with 2 aluminium rods to torque the enclosure together

Solid walnut panels to form an exterior skin sandwich on the central carbon fibre with a layer or medium density cork

Carbon fibre optimised flow port

Dimensions: 102mm(H)*410mm(w)*210mm(d)

Feet: Carbon Fibre pods with ball bearings based on the constraint layer principle.

AIR VIVACE PRICE AND AVAILABILITY

The speakers are due to launch in 2025 with tentative pricing at a ‘little over the $20,000 mark’.

Another couple of models are also in the pipeline.

HiFi PiG Says: These new loudspeakers have a very different look, thanks to Stefan for sharing the launch with us.