Vivid Audio

The approach

After decades of working with the world’s finest loudspeakers, Vivid Audio became GTT’s reference for transparency, dynamic freedom, and musical engagement.

Engineering Philosophy

Vivid Audio is an engineering-led loudspeaker company built around a clear objective: remove enclosure resonance, driver coloration, and stored energy so the loudspeaker becomes a transparent window onto the recording. Principal designer Laurence Dickie developed the tapered-tube loading used in the Bowers & Wilkins Nautilus and has continued to refine that work through Vivid’s proprietary drivers, reaction-canceling bass systems, curved enclosures, and carefully controlled diffraction.

The portfolio spans the accessible Kaya range and the sculptural Giya series, with the Moya M1 standing at the summit. The visual language is unconventional because the acoustic solutions are unconventional. Curves, tapered absorbers, and opposed bass drivers are functional choices before they are design statements.

Listening Experience

Vivid loudspeakers are exceptionally free of box sound. They reproduce transients without hardness, resolve fine tonal differences without spotlighting them, and create a soundstage whose scale and dimensionality are determined by the recording. Bass is fast, articulate, and extended, with the pitch definition and control we look for in the finest acoustic-suspension designs.

The Giya models extend these qualities with greater ease, dynamic freedom, and spatial illumination; Moya M1 adds still more scale and low-frequency authority. Across the range, the central experience is consistency: the loudspeaker does less, and the performance becomes more present.

GTT’s Perspective

Laurence Dickie’s work is original, technically coherent, and readily audible. The technology does not ask for admiration; it disappears into the result.

We represent Vivid because the range allows us to build systems for different rooms and budgets without abandoning the qualities that matter most. Properly matched and positioned, these loudspeakers retain their value long after the first demonstration: they continue to reveal the recording rather than themselves.

GTT Perspectives & Reference Notes

These notes go further into the range, and into how it behaves in a system.

• Giya · GTT Perspective →

  The Giya range — G1 Spirit, G2, G3, and G4 — is what happens when a loudspeaker’s enclosure, drivers, and crossover are designed as one problem. Laurence Dickie has spent a career treating the shape of a loudspeaker as an acoustic decision.

• Moya M1 · GTT Perspective →

  Moya M1 is not a larger Vivid. It is the point where the usual limits of loudspeaker scale, bass authority, and transparency are renegotiated.

• Vivid Audio Kaya 45 →

  The Kaya 45 is a three-way Vivid Audio loudspeaker, designed for everyday rooms as well as dedicated listening rooms. It keeps the absorber horn that defines Giya, folded back inside the cabinet.

• Reference Loudspeakers: The GTT Perspective →

  Where Moya, Giya, and Kaya sit within the Vivid reference family.

• Amplification for Vivid Audio →

  How GTT matches TLA, Audionet, and Mola Mola to Vivid loudspeakers.