I have listened to these and was VERY impressed with their performance. So much so, I bought a pair. 😀

@dilbyjones

Жыл бұрын

Those just look like they make sense. Wonderful.

@keplermission

Жыл бұрын

You bought a pair (of socks). Tell it how it is.

@dougdavis8986

Жыл бұрын

​@keplermission you should quit your job and become a comedian. You're that good!

@paulupton5557

Жыл бұрын

@@dougdavis8986 Thank you, I already am. 🃏

@mariuszzurawski498

Ай бұрын

What are your thoughts on this? Is it as holographic/3d/airy/transparent as they say?

Great review Steve, you really described well. Love the shirt!

@manuzach

Жыл бұрын

Shirt game is best in the industry…it’s part of room treatment

I love youre review, Steve! ❤️

Great shirt Steve 🙌!

You review my future speakers, how great is that, thanks a lot, that really helps me with my decision.

Love shirt and the review and the review.

Your shirt is BEAUTIFUL!!! I L-O-V-E it!

i love your shirt and reviews.

Steve you are the very best and always offer up some great Hifi gear for use to find out more about and always so interesting as well, thank you!

@SteveGuttenbergAudiophiliac

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, you made my day!

Great shirt great show thank you.

Steve: love the shirt!!! as usual!

It looks like something you would find in an arcade back in the 70's early 80's... Kind of cool.

Love the printed circuit shirt!

Steve, my old brain must be corroding - I've done a 180 from 'transducers first' to 'source first' but man do these make a statement. How often do you see a speaker that actually IMPROVES the aesthetics of the room it's in ? Kudos to Vivid ; truth in branding .

Thanks Much!

those RCA Living Presence recordings still hold up well after 65 years, engineering is everything

@keplermission

Жыл бұрын

Just to help US buyers of the B&W Kaya 25, the British stuff was always insular and at $11,000 a pair, we're looking for an amplifier near $5500, so what has the designer intended? Well, not NAD, you know Steve used a NAD, but they're not hi-End and not British. NAD is far eastern, the first owner was British, but NAD was an outsourced bargain product, 'cheap' is the word. Musical Fidelity M6s PRE + M6s PRX is going to be nearer the mark. The British scene is very specialist and to get the best you'll need an all British speaker/amplifier and usually Marantz inputs at the that price point.

Well, I'll be darned! Aliens are real!! 👽😂 Thanks for the review, Steve, it is, seriously, one to check out. 😃👍

Excellent video aș always. Ever think of doing a "Questions for Steve" episode? Questions like: What is your wardrobe budget? How many shirts do you own? Where do you buy your shirts and glasses,(love the glasses)? If speaker wire is so important why are the internals of speakers wired with ordinary small gauge copper with Crimp connections? You know, questions on any thing? ☮Peace

Hey Steve - I just noticed you have Harry Nilsson box-set of CDs on your shelf behind you. He was by far one of the very best!

I saw an SPQR in the back - I loved that book

Thx for reviewing. I was interested in this exact model (ironically, I'm one of the guys who likes how they look), but for a combined music/home theater system,. I've given up because Vivid has never come through with their C35 center channel speaker (as of today, their site web says "coming soon", as it has for a couple of years).

@RichardDiamond-wz7rs

Жыл бұрын

The C35 center channel speaker is now in production (the website is slightly out-of-date). Great review on the Kaya K25.

Great review! I heard the S12 at a local audio show last year. They played Lie Still Little Bottle by They Might be Giants, and that really showcased their exhilarating presence and breathtaking speed. The messy little crescendo in the middle followed by the hard piano chord - those little drivers damn near blew our hair back. Very impressive, very clear. Not the type of sound I was after, but for what they were - incredibly nice. Would have loved to hear these big brothers.

Music by Cal Tjader................................ Thanks for the artist recommendation! Loving it. And the interesting & unique product reviews are always welcome entertainment. 🔈🔉🔊

Oh my God if I was married and brought these home I would be out on the street with them...no not in my home...but I'm not but just when you thought a new design would never rear it's head low and behold..here we are ...it must have a deep bass response..just saying...oh no out of my price range...thank you Steve Guttenberg..where would we be without you..!!!!! PS...What are your favorite 10 island records/ cd you would have on a desert island..maybe for another day/ post ..and also includes what system ???? Love your new shirt..low DB'S...

I have an old school set of vivid 101 love the sound

Steve, won't be buying $11,000 speakers, but thanks for turning me on to Lonnie Smith. Enjoying that album on my Maggie LRS+ & REL subs.

You should try the maya 90 or 45. Wonder if they would be more rounded wrt bass and ability to fill a room Love your new shirt btw

I never noticed the David Peace novel on your shelves before. Have you read his Red Riding quartet? Absolutely astounding books. There is also a trilogy of films made from them. B&W was interesting at the time they produced the Nautilus, which, if I remember correctly, was related to the research which went on to produce the Pod series of speakers, Minipod, Micropod and, I think, various others down the years.

@keplermission

Жыл бұрын

Yeah ... but why has Steve recommended the Kubala Temptation speaker cable? Well, because it's only $600 a meter and it's a halfway house copper silver alloy bridge to reach the British elite's choice of a solid silver conductor Atlas brand cable for the Vivid Audio Kaya 25. So you say, why would the Red Riding Quartet book or copper silver alloy cable not be included? Well listen, the British hi-End stuff is not Brooklyn for starters. That's the first stumbling block that says that we should just forget all about the British, Vivid Audio stuff. Why is Steve so loyal to these people? Joe Kubala of Kubala Sosna is you know all very well, but his cable is aimed at an Italian speaker (Brooklyn right?) and Greek electronics, so it's all Europe okay? No ... UNDERSTAND British stuff is INSULAR, it isn't Greek, it's not Italian, it's not Brooklyn. The Italian speakers have a Frequency Response that suits copper/ silver alloy but the Vivid Audio Kaya 25 doesn't suit a copper substitute for the silver in the genuine matching Atlas brand cable. Basically, you know, Steve likes the American Kubala Sosna, but these are not for British ears, they're a favor to a pal.

Steve, please list the music you listen to during the review in the description. it would really help. Thanks!

Love your reviews nice speakers would like you to review some Proac speakers as they don't get any reviews in the states. Just a suggestion. 🤔

@razisn

Жыл бұрын

ProAcs do not get any internet reviews anywhere as the company does not provide them for internet reviews.

I Will buy or 45 or 90... Stunning

Did you mean the Kef is the perfect speaker that has some of both sounds from the Kaya 25 vs Pure audio project? Anyway i would like to see a review of Danny Ritchie's nxotica's or nx' extremes.

Good Shirt!!

Sir what the brand of ur shirt?, i really gonna buy it But pls not as expensive as the pairs..peace!

I told laurance in Dublin that if i ever win the lottery he'd be getting a call.

Steve, I love the circuit board shirt! Did your wife make it for you? If not, can you put a link to where you bought it?

@SteveGuttenbergAudiophiliac

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, but no she didn't make that shirt. I bought it from GeekSoulFit.com It's "COMPUTER CIRCUIT BOARD GREEN BUTTON UP POCKET SHIRT."

What brand of shirts do you wear? I'm looking for a new brand.

@SteveGuttenbergAudiophiliac

Жыл бұрын

Many are made by my wife.I bought today's shirt from I bought it from GeekSoulFit.com It's "COMPUTER CIRCUIT BOARD GREEN BUTTON UP POCKET SHIRT."

Very nice shirt , where did you buy it , just watch your PCB shirt 😮😮😮

@SteveGuttenbergAudiophiliac

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, I bought it from GeekSoulFit.com It's "COMPUTER CIRCUIT BOARD GREEN BUTTON UP POCKET SHIRT."

Steve, are the LTA separates going to get their own review?

@SteveGuttenbergAudiophiliac

Жыл бұрын

Yes, not sure when

The driver spacing seems to to be unusually far apart, I wonder what the x over freq is?

@SteveGuttenbergAudiophiliac

Жыл бұрын

3k, the area around the tweeter is a waveguide

😎

I’d like to hear your view on Aqua days.

YAy. Long live vivid and lawrence dickie

Did you have these on the tambaqui steve?

@SteveGuttenbergAudiophiliac

Жыл бұрын

Yes

@labalo5

Жыл бұрын

What a treat! Thx for the review

6:21 85 dB is normal and a good result for a speaker with 8 Ohm! Sensitivity has no sound! Greetz from 🇨🇭

Uncle Steve, I want to know when I can come over just to hear how different audio cables can sound so different. I get out of school at 2:00 pm. You want me to pick up Oreo cookies on the way?

I guess the real question is.... Will they dethrone the Baffles? :)

@SteveGuttenbergAudiophiliac

Жыл бұрын

No

Is there a good $11K pair of speakers that don't "need" a subwoofer?

@ColocasiaCorm

8 ай бұрын

Did you watch the review?

Co9l shirt Steve!

I like the circuit board shirt, but the speakers are bit too avant-garde for me.

The key to this sound is neodymium magnets, just buy a off the shelf neodymium driver and create a simple open baffle. You'll be surprised.

Looks like something out of that one Spy Kids movie.

This is a 2-way box speaker. Very common for 2-way box speakers to be specified as having a nominal 8 ohm impedance. Not sure why you find this is rare. Maybe it's a US thing? I'm in Europe. (Btw an 8ohm, 85db/2.83V at 1m speaker will supposedly sound as loud, when fed 1 watt, as a 4ohm 88db/2.83V speaker...of course all of this is nominal).

@keplermission

Жыл бұрын

Not a box. 6 ohm is more usual in the US and UK but in Europe, we see 5 ohm in Norway or 4 ohm in other places. 8 ohm is seen less often as it develops less power. The BBC LS3/5A was 15 ohm and later 11 ohm. The idea of "1 watt" is affected by other factors, the power bandwidth and the ability to handle peaks without clipping. You know, 'don't teach your granny to suck eggs?'

@razisn

Жыл бұрын

@@keplermission What are you mumbling about? You are either wrong or not making sense in virtually everything you say here. I can point you to a zillion specified as 8 ohm nominal 2-way box speakers starting with the well known LS50, continuing with the Focals, the ProAcs and any number of other brands and models. Of course it is a box speaker. If a speaker is not open baffle or panel or full horn, it is a box speaker. Your sentence about 'the idea of 1 watt' makes no sense whatsoever. Nor the one about 8 ohm 'developing less power'. The only correct thing you said was about the LS3/5A..

lawrence dickie is a genius

As a Porsche owner… have no idea what Porsche blue is.

85db at 2.83 Watt !! thats really unsensitive, what does this work out at the standard one Watt? - - below 80db!?

@xstensl8823

Жыл бұрын

same as the Kef ls50

@razisn

Жыл бұрын

85db at 2.83Volts not Watts which makes it 85db/1W at the nominal 8 ohm impedance.

Sounds like this speaker has Maggie type speed.

It’s a beautiful speaker.

@bennetbayer3103

Жыл бұрын

Yea, but how much bass and for 11K Euro's?

if these were to tip over would they shatter? BTW Steve, cool shirt.

@kloss213

Жыл бұрын

Looks designed to fall.

@SteveGuttenbergAudiophiliac

Жыл бұрын

The very heavy base makes it near impossible to tip over.

Finaly a speaker with a correct impedance .......

... opps sorry buddy, these chairs are for me and the lady. brb

Looks like a stretched genelec to me

Cool looking speaker........but 11k for a 2-way 52lb speaker that probably only plays nice down to 50hz(I love how they only give a -+6db rating...like they'll trick us to think it digs deeper than it does). Lame. Not an attractive buy. I'm guessing they'll sell a handful a year here in the US.

@razisn

Жыл бұрын

Not all the world has either the same taste or the same requirements as the US..

@ryanschipp8513

Жыл бұрын

@@razisn you are correct. But I don't care where you're from whether it's the United States or the planet Mars barely anybody is going to see good value in these speakers. They are primarily a look at how unique I look speaker versus look at what I've made of and how I perform speaker at $11,000

@TheDanEdwards

Жыл бұрын

"Lame" - describes your constant attacks on various products and outlets. Dude, products are designed to sell to targets and you are hardly the decider on what people want.

@ryanschipp8513

Жыл бұрын

@@TheDanEdwards congratulations. You are that guy that's okay with a manufacturer trying to be sneaky with specifications. I'm not that guy and I'm going to call them out on it. Seems you have a firm grip on what their targets going to be. You think they're going to sell these like pancakes?

@maxhirsch7035

Жыл бұрын

​ @Ryan Schipp IIRC you were running down the Kaya S12s when Steve reviewed them on this channel not long ago. Okay, we get it, you have a thing against Vivids. But here's the thing- every audio purchase, including speakers, requires compromises- there are a no. of very expensive speakers that do extremely well at 50hz and above but are obviously not full-range speakers. And measuring speaker value by its weight is- not a particularly great metric. Vivids may be lame in your opinion, but audiophiles who have many other choices consistently (though like any other product, not universally) rave about them. And as for the numbers they move in the US- hardly any multi-thousand dollar high-end speaker models sell more than a handful of units a year, as there are still dozens or possibly hundreds of models at 10K or above, much less 5K, and if you haven't noticed, when that's divided up among the relatively small percentage of the US population spending many thousands per speaker pair in a given year- well, what would you expect? If you think all high-end speakers are lame, that's one thing, but if you accept the premise of spending this kind of money, well, Vivid makes very competitive, highly-regarded speakers at their price points. You're not speaking thoughtfully about these issues. We're all entitled to our biases, but many of us don't realize that we have them.

It’s kind of ironic that you have spent so much money on speakers as an audiophile and yet can’t control outside noise.

you lost me at 11k

First

I think all audio reviewers should publish results of their hearing tests

there is absolutely nothing special about this speaker, it still uses heavy metal drive units, that still posses ringing frequencies that still have to be tamed and damped down. This means they don't possess the natural dynamic sound quality of a pair ATC ASL 3 way active monitors where the drive units dont have to be damped down because they are inherently made of self damped materials. The vivid does not produce natural sounds of instruments like the 3 way ATC SCM ASL 3 WAY ACTIVE monitors do. But obviously your not going to tell the real truth like it really is are you . There is absolutely nothing high end about this speaker, nor is it's sound signature . Talking about the vivid's design and sound, it is at best a lifestyle speaker, with a lifestyle sound, which means that it possess an unnatural sound signature . There is nothing natural about the way this speaker actually sounds. There you have it from me folks, the real unvarnished truth . One more thing, metal drive unit KEFS also does not posses natural sound capabilitive qualities either. People should really stop lying about speakers sound quality abilities that just are not real or true to real life sounds .

@maxhirsch7035

Жыл бұрын

You're correct, all of the audio reviewers out there who have praised this and other Vivid speakers' sound have simply been wrong - how lucky we to have you commenting about them on this channel!! BTW, have you ever actually listened to them? A lot of people online such as yourself simply start engaging in technical talk, whether it's accurate, or not at all... who because they have some knowledge, right or wrong, think they know everything there is to know about making speakers sound good...

@ColocasiaCorm

8 ай бұрын

Lawrence dickie is a god. Vivid audio speakers, namely the giya g2, are measurably superior to wilsons, magicos, focals, etc. Please refer to soundstage networks anechoic measurements of dynamic linearity. Only other speaker ive seen as good is the jbl 4367, another speaker i deeply respect.

@ColocasiaCorm

8 ай бұрын

Btw you just said the atc drivers dont have to be damped down because theyre inherently damped. Dude. What is logic?