If the height of your pandemic achievements – your honed banana brand recipe or hula-hoop PR, perhaps – was put into perspective by Taylor Swift writing and releasing two albums or American comedian Bo Burnham’s award-winning, one-man musical, get a load of this: when Laurence Dickie, the speaker engineer behind the iconic Bowers & Wilkins Nautilus and now the technical director of the Vivid Audio brand he founded, was quarantined in a hotel room during the pandemic, he designed his dream loudspeakers: a five-way, 13-driver design that is now launching as Vivid Audio’s new flagships, the Moya 1.
Look at the accompanying images and it’s hard not to stare at those side-firing, proprietary bass drivers, of which there are eight, each one capable of handling 800W and together horizontally opposed on either side of the towers. Vivid Audio found that extending the speakers’ bass response also improved the perception of higher frequency bands, and so these bass units became even more pivotal to the design.
