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What I found captivating in the story of the Living Voice speaker is the he motivation of the Living Voice people to go from their former model to this new one.  This itself. is a very interesting to me subject.

If you look at the image of the former commercial version of the Living Voice then you can see a tweeter that is more or less anechoic positioned.  The speaker reportedly use Vitavox S2 driver for MF and they looks like complimented it with a tweeter in time-aliened position. I think it looked very good and it was a sensible solution for that speaker. However, it looks like Living Voice was not pleased with S2 + tweeter configuration and they build up some complicated addition to S2.

This begs a question: what in S2+ right tweeter was not good enough that made Living Voice to go for something that looks like 2 tweeters and one of them in “retarded” tweeter. If Living Voice knows what they do then I see two possible explanations:

1)   Living Voice still has no good tweeter and they keep experimenting. In think case what they do now, I am sure is juts intimidate phase that will be replaced within a proper tweeter later on when Living Voice found it.

2)   Living Voice found a very specific configuration where this “retard tweeter” somehow talks acoustically with output of the S2 driver and make some differences in its very upper knew. In thin case it might be interesting to see what Living Voice was trying to accomplish and what they accomplished.

On a hunch, I would propose that the option #2 is less likely as it would be too advanced for a commercial loudspeaker. It is not that commercial loudspeaker might not be build with those aims but how many people out there would appreciate all of those satellites? 

Sure, there is an option #3 – they created some kind of crap just in order to let the Morons from 6moons to make distinctively deferent pictures. This would be like some manufacturers put sexy glowing tubes on chasses that are necessary or even not connected to the circuit. However, it makes the amps more photogenic and allow the cretins-revelers to write long articles how the change those decorative tubes with only filaments connected to some kind of Amperex “Bugle Boy” SE/LP/UQ/HS (Special Edition, Limited Production, Unusual Quality, Higher Specification) would dramatically improve the presents of Patricia Barber on the listener laps.

There is also a ridicules option #4 – the Living Voice might use a digital filtration with room correction option driven by a microphone.  In such case the cannon sticking in front of the speaker is not a transducer but a “listener sniffer” that reads the reflections from a listener. I know it is absurd but mo more absurd from my point of view then put a tweeter inside a pipe…

So, what knows what they do but I would be curios to learn what motivated them to do it, particularly if they use my Vitavox S2 driver.

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