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Living Voice brought along their 600Ah battery pack power supply
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The new Living Voice R80 loudspeaker
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Kuzma front end, SJS Arcadia amps
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| Grand Prix Monaco 2 TT with Kuzma arm |
Living Voice
brought along their new (4 years in development) R80 speakers to listen
to. They look like a much larger evolution of the R25 / OBX lineage
and sit between those speakers and the Vox Olympians in the range. Here
they were fed analogue signals from Grand Prix Monaco 2 and Kuzma turntables into SJS Arcadia valve
amplification. This is a stunning system having a nicely balanced mixed
of attributes - dynamic, clear, confident, full of substance and intent
but no signs of edginess nor an over-aggressive nature. For me this is
LV's best speaker, clearly fed by a top quality signal and significantly
outperforms the Vox Olympian in terms of musical enjoyment. This is
another system that could potentially have taken a sound of the show
award but on my second, third and fourth visits were playing simple
unchallenging jazz twiddling. Come on exhibitors, have some conviction
and play some music representative of what most people actually listen
to.
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