"We have just about finished refurbishing our new ground-floor studio specifically for the horn systems - at least that's the plan! I will send some photos in the next couple of weeks when it is done. I have a bit of other news for you as well, about a system we are installing at the new Spiritland venue opening in September at Kings Cross. It's coming along nicely. They have Julien Stockton doing PR now (he does PR for the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin and previously did for David Bowie) and we are building them a bespoke hornspeaker for the venue and pulling together a number of colleagues who will be collaborating to be sponsors and provide equipment. We are getting quite close to the opening date and are just about to complete making the hornspeaker. We'll be installing it in the next few weeks. For now, please see a PDF of the basic information. - Lynn


Lynn is the better half of Kevin Scott. Together they're proprietors of Living Voice and Definitive Audio, a speaker house and retail establishment in the UK's Midlands respectively. This news was so exciting, I published the initial PDF ahead of the formal press release and photos. Here's what was announced before the opening:

February 2nd, 2017: "I thought I'd give you a little update on the Spiritland cafe/bar. Here's a photo of Nick Hornby (High Fidelity / Fever Pitch / About a boy) and Bill Nighy who probably needs no introductions, during last week's discussing and playing of Bill Nighy's favourite music from down the years [lower right]: an evening of conversation on the Living Voice system. Tickets were sold out. And then Jarvis Cocker & Steve Mackey (Pulp) performed their 'Dance Floor Meditations' event [below left fronting a subwoofer], a combination of music and dialogue with lighting effects twice last weekend

"It's slightly hypnotic, slightly tongue in cheek and highly entertaining. The tickets all sold out. It's now getting real traction; a musical experience to a really transformative and transcendent degree. Should be fun. At least that's the objective! The other obvious objective is to broaden the audience for high performance audio beyond the confines of the inward-looking audiophile bubble. Brave or stupid? One way or the other, we're going  to find out.  You must come and see us soon in our new studio." - Lynn Stupid? No. Brave? Hell yes!

Here we see the Spiritland speaker system at Living Voice's ready to be relocated to London for installation.

Its "a four-box 5-way with 500-litre reflex-loaded bass from 20Hz to 70Hz whilst the rest is hornloaded (105dB/w). Bandwidth is 20Hz to 45kHz."

To follow Lynn & Kevin's Living Voice exploits on Instagram, go here. A visit this year, to their shop and Spiritland, is clearly on the books now. For more on Spiritland, go here. Obviously this isn't a mum'n'pop operation with some in-wall speakers drizzling elevator muzak on assorted consumers of java and various spirits. Soon coming to a neighbourhood near you? Certainly not. But should you find yourself on London's Stable Street at King's Cross, you best pop in and tell them 6moons sent you...