What's in a name...?
However it may have begun, perhaps with man's duplication of the rhythms of nature, or simply through the call of the human voice, the origins of music stretch back long into our prehistory. For thousands upon thousands of years, music as entertainment developed, and until the relatively recent years of the last century all music shared a single unifying quality: it was LIVE.
With the coming of recording and replay technology, music became a conveniently transportable medium, but all too often at the expense of the emotional engagement that comes with the live event. It is our emotional response to it that defines the very essence of music. Different in all of us, and often profound, it defies explanation, though we all know when it is absent or diminished. Intangible though the reasons might be, we can all sense that the immediacy of a performance, the sense of "being there", heightens our emotional response to it.
This then, is why we do what we do. We are dedicated to building the highest fidelity loudspeakers which bring all the nuance and emotion of live performance to the listener. Through doing this we enjoy all that music, and only music, can offer us.
Translated literally from the latin, "Vita Vox" means "Live Voice". We think this perfectly sums up what we're all about.
Our philosophy
Since the company was first established in 1931, the Vitavox approach to product development and manufacture has been underpinned by the same core philosophy:- excellence and attention to detail in both design and engineering.
It is no surprise that Vitavox products from many years ago are still in operation all over the world. Put simply, they were built to last. Elegantly simple design coupled with a no compromise approach to materials specification and build quality means the perfect integration of high quality performance and longevity.
Of course there have been technological advances over the years, such as the advent of CNC and a growth in the understanding of materials, and these have inevitably had an impact, but that impact is surprisingly small. The truth is that Vitavox hi-fi products today are built using largely the same technology and processes that have always been in place. The same tools that pressed the pressure unit diaphragms and wound the bass driver coils, the same patterns from which the chassis components are cast, the same assembly jigs to ensure precision fit of both pressure and cone drivers: all are still in use today just as they were in the 1950s and 60s.
We make no apologies for this; quite the reverse in fact. We feel that to maintain such strong links with the past constitutes the best way of ensuring that the intrinsic qualities that have always made a Vitavox product special remain so for years to come.
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Diaphragm press