Finish:

The Razz comes with real wood veneer applied in a vacuum bag for a glass-smooth surface.  We use a “permanent” two-part glue to bond the veneer to the cabinet.  By contrast, many manufacturers use PVA glue or contact cement, which are not ‘permanent’ glues.

Volti Audio is known for beautiful finish work.  The lacquer finish used on the wood veneer of Razz cabinets is catalyzed and designed to resist damage from UV light.  We use a medium-rubbed lacquer finish to allow the character and texture of the wood grain to show through, so you always know you’re looking at a real piece of wood.

The durable textured paint finish used on some panels of the Razz is a commercial grade coating designed to handle wear and tear better than typical paint finishes.  This coating is easy to clean and is not damaged as easily as smooth, glossy coatings.

Your Razz speakers will be veneered on the top, sides, and front edges, with paint applied to the backs, inset fronts, and bottoms.

Cabinet:

You will never find MDF or ‘flakeboard’ used in the construction of a Volti Audio speaker cabinet.  We think of our speakers as 100-year products, and we use the finest wood, adhesives, and fasteners in the construction of the Razz cabinets.  The Razz cabinet is built from 1” thick Baltic Birch plywood, fully braced, and properly damped.    We welcome comparisons to any other speaker – especially in the same price range as the Razz.

Components:

Driver and crossover components are Pro-Audio grade, meaning they are very durable and capable of being used a lot harder than they ever will be in your home.  This means that the drivers are never near their max, and will last a very long time because of that.  The Razz woofer for instance, is capable of continuous 600 watt input – ten times what it will ever handle in the Razz – and unlike woofers with rubber surrounds, it has a resin impregnated cloth surround that will last for decades.

Cloth:

The cloth used on the standard grills for the Razz is a high quality, acoustically transparent black stretch cloth.  There is an available upgrade to Premium woven cloths, which add a beautiful texture to the front of the speaker, and resist fading and tearing much better than the standard stretch cloth.   All of our cloth is stretched tightly and secured in place with plenty of staples.

The Razz speakers truly do offer both Beauty and Durability

The materials used in the Razz are meticulously selected for their physical beauty, durability, and sonic characteristics.

The look, feel and sound of the Razz is the combination of great craftsmanship, great materials and attention to details.

Consider the workmanship and high quality materials for the grill frames.  They align and snap onto the cabinets with magnets and are made from a solid piece of ½” thick Baltic Birch plywood, cut by CNC, sanded, primed, painted, and then covered with a durable cloth.

Go ahead, find another speaker on the market at any price point that is made with 1″ Baltic Birch plywood.  Most cabinets are made with inferior materials, such as MDF or ‘flakeboard’

Take a look at the crossovers in other speakers, even ones costing many times more than the Razz.  You probably will not see the quality level of components used in the Razz, nor will you see one of the very nice features of the Razz, crossovers that are separated into two plates inside the cabinet to minimize interference between the low and high filter components.

Many other quality details can be found on Razz speakers, like laser cut Lexan input plates with high quality five-way binding posts (bi-wire-able), drivers mounted with machine screws and inserts (rather than wood screws into flakeboard), the use of ‘No Rez’ brand damping material, and polyurethane ‘lifetime’ adhesives.

The Razz features a 2” outlet midrange compression driver with a dome shaped composite diaphragm, an annular phase plug, and a neodymium magnet – feeding into the 2” throat of a large midrange horn with a shallow profile.  The midrange is carefully voiced and integrated through the crossover and with extra damping applied to the horn lens.  The midrange of the Razz is where the music lives!

The Razz features a cutting edge woofer, with low distortion, high sensitivity, a neodymium motor with a built-in demodulation ring, cast-aluminum frame, and a host of other features that all work together to help the Razz produce tight, low bass that is unexpected at 97db sensitivity in a cabinet this compact.   The bass from the Razz is the foundation of the music and it is an impressive foundation!

The Razz features hand-built crossovers with very high quality Metalized Polypropylene Capacitors, 14ga air-coil, hand-wound copper inductors, and metal-oxide resistors, all mounted on separate high and low frequency wooden boards that are carefully located within the cabinet to reduce vibration and interference with driver magnets.  These Volti Audio crossovers are the key to the great integration and overall voicing you hear from the Razz.

The Razz is able to reproduce nine-full-octaves of rich, smooth, ultra-low distortion sound because of these great drivers and components.

The quality of materials, the craftsmanship, the meticulous finish work, and our direct-to-customer sales approach make Volti Audio loudspeakers the best value for money loudspeakers available.

Standard grill cloth for the Razz is a black stretch cloth made by Mellotone Fabrics.  Unlike many other black grill cloths which can look a bit washed out or even a bit purple in color, the Mellotone cloth is very dark black in color, and we like using it for this reason.

The Premium black woven cloth has a great vintage look to it.  One of the nice things about this cloth is that it does not show dust or cat hair like the black stretch cloth does.  It is also the most durable cloth we use,and will likely last for decades on your speakers.

I’m often asked about acoustic transparency of the various cloths that we offer.  The black stretch has the best sound transmission, with almost no noticeable change in the sound of the speaker with the grill on or off.  The Premium black woven cloth is a close second to the black stretch, and is a cloth that you can leave on the speakers even during critical listening sessions.

The light beige, tan mix weave, and gray all make a slight but noticeable difference in the high frequency transmission.  Fine to leave on for most listening, but when it really counts – you know those late night sessions when the AC power is clean and you’re in the zone with the music – you’ll want to remove them.  Easy to do, just pull the bottom out and the drop right off the magnets.