Living Voice, UK manufacturers of exceptional high fidelity loudspeakers designed by Kevin Scott, including the award winning Auditorium, Avatar, OBX R2, OBX RW and horn ranges.
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Frequently Asked Questions
You design your loudspeakers using valve amplification. What about results with solid-state amplifiers?
Many Auditorium Series owners get excellent, musically rewarding results with transistor amps from manufacturers as diverse as Lavardin, Sugden and Naim. Nevertheless, we consider the thermionic valve to offer the best options available.
Why the outboard (OBX) crossovers?
Ironically, one of the worst places to place a crossover circuit, for a number of reasons, is in a loudspeaker cabinet.
This is normally done for reasons of cost, reflected not only in the product pricing itself, but also in shipping costs - plus of course the extra floor space and cabling required.
Accordingly, for optimum performance, we offer the OBX-R2 and OBX-RW with external crossover boxes.
For those reluctant or unable to accept the demands of the external crossovers, the IBX-R2 and IBX-RW are otherwise identical, with only a marginally compromised performance in comparison to the OBX variants.
Why do all your speakers look the same?
The glib answer would be we prefer to spend the money where it's heard, not necessarily seen (we're an ad man's worst nightmare).
Although at first glance visually identical, there are substantial - and crucially inter-dependent - differences in every aspect of design and construction as you ascend the Auditorium range.
The relatively recent adoption of Kondo KSL amplification and cabling revealed that a further substantial increase in performance was possible. This led to the introduction of the OBX-RW which, gratifyingly, is coming to be regarded as one of the world's most musically persuasive loudspeakers.
Are all Auditoriums designed for bi-wiring?
Yes. The speakers are designed to give optimum performance in this configuration, but a single run of high quality cable, such as Kondo KSL SPz (silver), will sound better (though regrettably, not cost less) than bi-wiring with SPc (copper). It is of course quite possible to gain highly satisfactory results with less expensive cables. And truly astonishing results with Kondo KSL.
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