VIVID AUDIO KAYA 90
Vivid Audio’s loudspeakers not only look different, they sound different too, something that Vivid Audio’s lead designer Laurence Dickie knows all too well. But since that’s what they said about B&W’s flagship Nautilus — which he also designed — he’s not too concerned.
EQUIPMENT
Putting aside for a moment the industrial design of the unconventional curvy cabinet, the acoustic design of the Vivid Audio Kaya 90 is also unconventional, because it’s a three-way, six-driver bass reflex system using four 125mm-diameter alloy-coned bass drivers, a single 100mm-diameter alloy cone midrange driver and a 26mm alloy dome tweeter. Both the midrange driver and the tweeter are ‘loaded’ at the rear by tapered tubes, and the two bass reflex ports are also loaded by exponentially tapered tubes. The purpose of these tubes is to eliminate destructive resonances and reflections.
The four bass drivers are mounted in
