Source: Press Release, Last Accessed: 2024/03/14

Vivid Audio announced the introduction of an all-new ultra-premium loudspeaker – the Moya M1. This will be the new flagship of the range. As always, the Moya M1 was developed according to Vivid Audio’s guiding principle – Form must follow function.
Like many great ideas, the Vivid Audio Moya M1 started as a sketch, the company says. Quarantined in a hotel room during the pandemic, designer Laurence Dickie had the time to dream about a speaker that could do it all. The culmination of a lifetime in pursuit of acoustic design perfection.
The first thing that strikes one on viewing the M1 is the imposing stack of bass drivers – eight legendary C225-100H woofers, each one capable of handling 800W, arranged in a new high-shove configuration. In fact, the low frequency section played an out-sized role in the development of Moya M1.
According to the press release, during the testing process, a key finding emerged – extending a speaker’s bass response also improved the perspective of the higher frequency bands. Each pair of drivers is arranged in a horizontally-opposed configuration on either side of the bass module, with magnets united by a substantial steel tie-bar to completely eliminate reaction forces and the need for a heavy enclosure. The use of Vivid Audio’s generously proportioned reaction-canceling ports eliminates cabinet vibration and minimizes any turbulent effects which may limit low-end linearity.
The experience is further enhanced by all-new Diamond-like Coated (DLC) tweeters, a material that can be applied to the surface of aluminum domes at a temperature well below melting point. The contrasting properties between the DLC and the aluminum substrate heightened shear losses and significantly dampened the Q of the break-up.
Thanks to the computer-optimized, passive, hard-wired filters (built in-house), Moya M1 delivers levels of smoothness, accuracy and phase matching once thought possible only with active systems, the company says.
The Vivid Audio Moya M1 is a 5-way, 13-driver design. The four extensively braced bass enclosures, each using two C225 bass drivers in reaction-canceling modes with aerodynamically-optimized bass ports, are complemented by two C175 mid bass drivers, one C100 mid-range, one D50 upper mid-range and one D26 tweeter. All drivers are developed from Vivid's existing drivers and optimized for use in the Moya M1. The speaker makes use of a passive, five-way, fourth order Linkwitz-Riley crossover in three parts, where the mid and high sections are placed well away from bass sections.
The Moya M1 is manufactured entirely in-house to allow for absolute control over every facet of the build process.

For more information: https://vividaudio.com/

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