L'Instrument
Grande Voix
Grande Voix (Grand Voice)
A loudspeaker like no other.
L'Instrument Grande Voix is more efficient than Fantom and more of what has made Berlin R and the single horn L'instrument groundbreaking world-class loudspeakers.
Bone shaking bass, coherent detail, dynamics-micro dynamics, air, rich harmonic textures, correct tone and timbre, real-life soundstage easily make Grande Voix one of the very best and most sonically complete passive loudspeakers in the World.
The L'Instrument Grande Voix is a dual horn, wide-body Masterpiece! Grande Voix is one of the most detailed, coherent, and dynamic loudspeakers available today: its wide-body form factor reproduces nimble to truly tectonic bass.
Grande Voix, second only to our flagship, Gottenburg.
SPECIFICATIONS:
Driver Complement:
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 massive ceramic AlNiCo motors optional 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 (PRO STUDIO has a larger different resonator)
Rear resonator:
Entire rear panel acts 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:
Semi-active, Self-damping Cabinet Architecture, In fine wood or finished in Piano Paint. PRO STUDIO version in durable epoxy 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: (low mass) 20awg solid core high tensile strength 6N copper wire in cotton silver solder (wiring optimized for detail and efficiency)
Impedance: 8 ohms
Recommended Power:
10 -100 tube watts
50+ transistor watts
Cabinet Dimensions (without plinth)
46.25" H 27" W 14" D
Total hight with plinth and horns
52.5"
Grande Voix PRO STUDIO Version
Bespoke Options:
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 + (Included on Pro Studio version)
Just-off-white + 3,000
Kabuki Red + 4,000
Custom colour: (PUR)
Driver+ cap/coil Upgrade:
Bone shaking bass, coherent detail, dynamics-micro dynamics, air, rich harmonic textures, correct tone and timbre, real-life soundstage easily make Grande Voix one of the very best and most sonically complete passive loudspeakers in the World.
Viking Acoustics
horn is based on the logarithmic shape
of the chambered nautilus
Grande Voix Copenhagen (cabinet is solid heirloom wood)
Grande Voix will come to life with higher powered tubes such as this Masterpiece stereo power amplifier from KR Audio
All four of Grande Voix horns are turned from matching timbers turned by hand by our Master wood turners.
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