VIVID AUDIO MOYA M1 FLAGSHIP LOUDSPEAKERS

The new Vivid Audio flagship loudspeaker uses an enhanced low frequency design involving eight 225mm (9-inch) alloy drivers, meet Laurence Dickie’s new flagship,the Vivid Audio Moya M1.

The Vivid Audio Moya M1 has been conceived to demonstrate “that extending a speaker’s bass response also improves the perception of higher frequency bands”.

VIVID AUDIO MOYA M1 LOUDSPEAKERS

Designed and hand-manufactured entirely in-house from Vivid’s signature carbon-reinforced sandwich composite, the Moya M1 is a 5-way, 13 driver system featuring four extensively braced bass enclosures, each with aerodynamically optimised reaction-cancelling ports. Each module houses two proprietary C225-100H, 225 mm alloy diaphragm bass drivers arranged in a horizontally opposed configuration, their magnets united by a substantial steel tie-bar to eliminate cabinet vibration and minimise any turbulent effects which may limit low-end linearity, as well the need for a heavy enclosure.

DRIVERS

Equipped with 100mm voice coils in a 45 mm gap rare-earth radial magnet system, the eight side-firing C225s are complemented by two front-firing C175-76, 175mm carbon fibre reinforced mid-bass drivers, a single C100SCu,100mm carbon-fibre reinforced mid-range, a D50DLC, 50 mm ‘Diamond-Like Coated’ aluminium alloy upper midrange dome – all with tapered tube loading – and a D26DLC ‘Diamond-Like Coated’ 26 mm aluminium alloy tweeter.

The Diamond-Like Coated (DLC) process involves a material that can be applied to the surface of the aluminium domes at a temperature well below melting point.

All drivers are developed from Vivid Audio’s existing drivers and optimised for use in the Moya M1. The speaker makes use of a passive, five-way, fourth order Linkwitz-Riley crossover in three parts, where the mid and high sections are placed well away from bass sections.

VIVID AUDIO MOYA M1 SPECS

Specifications          Vivid Audio MOYA M1

Configuration 5-way, 13 driver system

Cabinet material      Carbon-reinforced balsa-cored vacuum-infused sandwich composite

Standard colours     Piano Black, Lexus Pearl White, Oyster Grey Matte

Bespoke colours      PPG automotive colours vailable on request

Drive units    High Frequency: D26DLC – 26 mm Diamond-like Coated alloy dome unit with Tapered Tube Loading. Ultra-high flux radial magnet system

Upper Mid Frequency: D50DLC – 50 mm Diamond-like Coated alloy dome unit with Tapered Tube Loading. Copper shielded radial magnet system

Mid Frequency: C100SCu – 100mm carbon fibre reinforced alloy cone driver with Tapered Tube Loading. Copper shielded rare-earth radial magnet system

Lower Mid Frequency: 2 x C175-76 – 175 mm carbon fibre reinforced diaphragm with 76 mm voice coil with rare-earth radial magnet system. Tapered Tube Loading

Low Frequency: 8 x C225-100H – 225 mm alloy diaphragm with 100mm voice coil in 45 mm gap rare-earth radial magnet system

Bass loading Exponentially Tapered Tube enhanced bass reflex

Sensitivity     93dB/2.83V@1m

Nominal impedacnce (Ω)   5 nominal, 2.5 minimum at 40 Hz

Frequency range (Hz)        -6dB points: 19 Hz – 42,000 Hz

First D26 Break Up mode: > 50,000 Hz

Harmonic distortion (2nd and 3rd harmonics)    < -60dB > 100 Hz

Cross over frequencies (Hz)         125 Hz – 550 Hz – 1,700 Hz – 4,000 Hz

Power handling (music program) watts rms       3,000W

Loudspeaker dimensions   1,660 mm (H) x 660 mm (W) x 1,210 mm (D)

Net weight    346 kg (each)

The worldwide launch of the Moya M1 will take place on March 16th in Guangzhou, China, with Zesen Hifi, and for Europe, at the Munich High-End show in Hall 3, Room K16.

VIVID AUDIO MOYA M1 PRICE

Anticipated retail price inc VAT pair: £400,000

HiFi PiG Says: A huge and distinctive looking new flagship loudspeakers from Vivid.