If you visited Living Voice at their Definitive Audio headquarters at the old mill in England's Midlands, you'd be able to hear their Vox Palladian / Vox Basso system fronting a few tonnes of vinyl.
If you are attending the Munich HighEnd show this year, you can, too. Fronting the works will be this Grand Prix Audio Monaco with two arms, one of them…
… this VivLabs with Ortofon cartridge. For digital, there'll be this tubed Canary CD300 player with Kevin Scott's turbo mod.
Because this stuff doesn't just magically float in midair, there'll be Living Voice's very own…
… G2 rack with sundry Kondo valve gear. For transducence into transcendence, expect this pair of Vox Palladian mated to…
… the new 18" front-ported Vox Basso subs preceded by 500 watts of class B Brit power with an electronic crossover. Or as Lynn Scott previewed the affair, "2019 sees the unveiling of our new R25A model which celebrates the 25th anniversary of our Auditorium loudspeaker, the most affordable model and a solid step onto the Living Voice ladder. The Vox Basso is also making its first public debut and is the latest addition to our Vox series of loudspeakers. The Vox Basso is our take on a more physically demure subwoofer design with a smaller footprint than the Vox Elysian. It's ready to partner with either the Vox Olympian or Vox Palladian horn speakers and quite possibly a whole host of other loudspeakers, too. In between times and throughout the show we will be playing our classic Living Voice OBX-RW3 wearing its new Piano Ebony livery.
"All of this will be partnered with vintage Kondo electronics as well as analogue and digital sources gracing a few G2 equipment tables. For analogue we'll be playing records on the sublime Grand Prix Audio Monaco 2.0 turntable with a Kuzma 4-point tonearm and CAR 60 cartridge plus a second tonearm of the Viv Labs RF7" with Ortofon SPU Century or Royal GM MkII cartridge. The digital source will be our trusted high-octane giant killer, the LV CD300 for no frills, just pure performance. Once again the power supply duties will be delivered by the Living Voice Pure Music battery power supply system, allowing us to cruise off-grid all day with 600Ah of headroom."
Lest you think the Scotts leave anything to chance, Kevin preselects each tube used on the exact show system long before it ever hops onto a lorry to cross the Chunnel into Germania. Contrast that to folks who take receipt of a room sharer's hardware one day prior to show opening, then excuse poor performance with "we hardly have any hours on this". If you want to hear how true professionals conduct a show demo, be sure not to miss the Living Voice room. For many years in a row already, they had one of the best if not the best sounds…
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