L'Instrument Grande Voix
Statement... dual-horn Masterpiece!
Sound and Art become Passion.
A loudspeaker like no other and second only to the Gottenburg, More efficient than Fantom and more of what has made Berlin and L'instrument groundbreaking loudspeakers is L'Instrument Grande Voix.
SPECIFICATIONS:
Driver Compliment:
Tweeter:
1.25"Textile dome tweeter with machined titanium coil former loaded within the larger double purpose horn: acting as wave-guide for the tweeter and bass-port for the woofer at the same time. A Viking exclusive innovation.
Wide Band Driver:
6.5" full range driver with hybrid motor mounted in the smaller turned wood horn
Bass Driver:
18" bass driver with hybrid ceramic AlNiCo motors non-removable frameless grill covers woofer ports through the dual horns
Horns, Cabinet, and Resonator[s]:
Front resonator: Tone-wood Instrument (resonator) with bypass port in curly maple curly cherry or curly walnut
Rear resonator:
Entire rear panel is a semi-active resonator
Logarithmic tone-wood Horns:
20.5 + 14" Hand turned tone-wood horns in American maple American black walnut, or all North American 6A cherry
Cabinet:
NorseLock© Semi-active, Self-damping Cabinet Architecture (SASDA), In fine wood or finished in Piano Paint.
Sensitivity:
98 db
Time Alignment:
Drivers time-aligned mechanically and electrically.
Bandwidth:
19Hz - 30kHz
Binding Post:
4 way low-mass tellurium copper with speaker frame Earthing terminals
Internal Wire: 20awg solid core high tensile strength 6N copper wire in cotton silver solder (wiring optimized for detail and efficiency)
Impedance: 8 ohms
Recommended Power:
6-100 tube watts
100+ transistor watts
Cabinet Dimensions:
52" H 25.5" W 13.5" D
Grande Voix' design perfected by computer models.
How to Order:
L'Instrument Grande Voix
Price Upon Request
Choose your matching wood horns:
Maple (shown)
Clear Maple +1,000
6A Cherry
Persian cedar +700
All Claro Walnut + $2500
Solid Port Orford white cedar (NA)
Choose your wood baffle:
(Rubbed oil finish or sprayed gloss, satin or matte)
Clear Maple
American Cherry-wood
Claro Walnut + 800
African ribbon Sapele +1,000
Persian Cedar +1,000
Hawaiian KOA (PUR)
African Zebra-wood (PUR)
African Ebony (PUR)
Baffles Cabinet in rubbed piano finish
(deep gloss, satin, matte)
Near-black + 3,000
Just-off-white + 3,000
Kabuki Red +4,000
Custom colour: (PUR)
Driver+ cap/coil Upgrade:
Hand-Made AlNiCo wide-band driver with ecru colored dual cone with turned spruce phase plugs (clear wood or black) upgraded cap, coil and internal wire +4,000.00 (shown)
Delivery Mid 2020
All four of Grande Voix horns are turned from matching timbers! Choose North American maple, black walnut, or American Cherry.
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