The All New Volti Audio Vittora Is Here!
There’s Nothing Else Quite Like them
The original Vittora was the first speaker that I developed back when I started Volti Audio in 2010. They were an instant success at the shows and with my customers, with their unique design features, beautiful finish work, and of course their incredible sound. Back then, people were simply not used to hearing a horn speaker that had all the usual horn speaker attributes – dynamic impact, liveliness, big wide-open soundstage – but at the same time delivering a natural, refined and effortless quality with wide-bandwidth not normally found on older or lesser-quality horn speakers.
A four-year redevelopment has resulted in significant improvements in build-quality, aesthetics, functionality, and of course sound quality. The New Vittora is significantly better than the original in every way. It is the best work I’ve done to date as a speaker designer and builder.
Some of the highlights of the new design are:
- Tweeters are now centered above the mid-horn
- There is now a larger mid-horn that integrates with the bass horn even better than before
- The Bass Horn has increased in size and extends deeper into the bass and has a more intricate throat design and horn pathway with better upper bass definition
- All grills are now removable, as the insides of the Bass Horn and the Midrange Horn are completely finished (painted/veneered)
- Improved crossover design and components
- Improved crossover isolation using IsoAcoustic decoupling feet and careful inductor location within the tophat provides all the benefits of external crossovers
- A completely new ELF (Extended Low Frequency) system with two ELF cabinets, 1000 watts of power, digital processing, and a separate preamp with remote volume control
The New Volti Audio Vittora sets a new bar in effortless, powerful, dynamic music reproduction that you have to hear to believe. And you really should come hear this system. I will be bringing them to the shows in 2025, and of course you are always welcome to visit the Volti Audio facility in Baxter, TN. by appointment, where you can hear the incredible Vittora system in our demo room and get a tour of the shop where your speakers will be built
You will have the opportunity to choose veneers, cloth, and finishes for your speakers, and in our demo room you’ll hear for yourself how the Vittoras simply disappear and leave behind effortless, full-range, dynamic music like you’ve never heard or felt before
It is all about FUN here at Volti Audio – The enjoyment of designing and building great horn speakers, and then relaxing and listening to a musically engaging experience like no other.
Please call me to schedule a visit. Sign up for the Volti Audio Email Newsletter for information on the shows we will be at in 2025.
Greg Roberts – 207-314-1937
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The New Vittora webpage is coming soon.
Meanwhile, below you will find the webpage for the original Vittora system, which I will leave in place until I get the New Vittora webpage done.
The Vittora is a fully horn-loaded, three-way, high-efficiency speaker system that delivers wide dynamic range, high output, and extremely low distortion. It IS a horn speaker, and it gives us everything we like about horns while minimizing the problems that plague some other horn designs. The Vittora strikes a balance between the sound of a high-end, smooth, audiophile speaker, and the in-your-face, lively, dynamic sound of a big horn system. It is unmistakably true to the all-horn format, but polite enough to be taken seriously by any audiophile.
The Vittora bass cabinet utilizes a 15″ woofer in a folded horn to produce solid, accurate bass. Even at high output levels, the distortion from this horn is undetectable, and the result is a quickness and definition that you can only get with a horn design. There’s no ported bass sound with this horn speaker! You get tight, accurate bass, a correct sounding upper-bass/lower-midrange, and perfect integration between the bass and mid.
Made in the U.S.A.
The Vittora uses a large wooden midrange horn with a tractrix flare, designed and built in-house. The horn has a 2″ throat and uses a large-format midrange compression driver with a 3-1/2″ voice coil. This combination of large, solidly built wooden horn with a large throat and huge midrange compression driver results in a midrange sound that is effortless and easy to listen to. There is no constriction of the sound through a tiny throat, there is no edginess, graininess, or honky sound that so many other horn designs suffer from. The Vittora midrange is smooth and articulate, dynamic and uncolored. The midrange is truly the heart of this loudspeaker, and the listener is rewarded with a musicality from this midrange horn that is very rare in this industry, at any price.
The tweeter combines a 1″ compression driver feeding through an elliptical tractrix horn, and with a carefully tuned crossover filter, it delivers extended, smooth high frequencies that compliment the rest of this system.
The hand-wired crossover networks are located inside the top horn section, and are the result of hundreds of hours of listening and testing to achieve near-perfect integration between the system components. The networks provide many adjustments for balancing the system, if desired.
The Vittora system uses a carefully tuned Extended Low Frequency cabinet that is very different from a powered subwoofer.
Why not just use a powered subwoofer? Click here to learn more
Virtually all powered subwoofers are designed for use in home theaters. They are built to be able to extend the bass down to 20Hz and below (frequencies that are felt more than they are heard), and to also play these frequencies at the same output level as higher bass frequencies (frequencies that are heard more than they are felt). These frequency response ‘curves’ and low bass characteristics are better suited for movie sound effects than they are for integrating into a two-channel music system.
It is rare to find a two-channel music system with a powered subwoofer that is properly integrated. Typically, subwoofers in two-channel systems are very much calling attention to themselves as separate pieces of the system. As your attention is drawn towards the separate low bass, so too is your attention drawn away from the music.
. . . . and that’s not good enough.
The Extended Low-frequency (ELF) cabinet of the Vittora system is not like a powered subwoofer at all. The ELF cabinet handles frequencies below 50Hz with a massive 18″ driver in a very carefully tuned bass-reflex cabinet.
The tuning is purposeful and unique.
Low bass from the ELF cabinet is fast, and can keep up with the speed of the bass from the Vittora bass horn.
The ELF cabinet is musical, and never draws attention to itself separately from the rest of the system.
The low bass from the ELF cabinets sounds as though it is coming from the main Vittora speakers.
The frequency ‘curve’ and output characteristics of the low bass from the ELF cabinet perfectly integrates with the bass from the Vittora bass horn.
The end result is low bass with all the speed and effortless dynamics that you can only get in a horn loudspeaker, and no other horn loudspeaker on the market extends as low and does so in such a musically integrated way.
The MB42 has 300 watts of power and a very nice analogue, 24db slope crossover network built in. Over the years it has proven a reliable and capable component match to the ELF cabinet. The cost is $2,900 purchased directly through Volti Audio.
Vittora System Capabilities
Frequency response of the Vittora System is 25Hz – 20Khz (main speakers 50Hz – 20Khz and the ELF cabinet 25Hz – 50Hz. What is interesting here is the design of the system, utilizing a bass horn that extends to 50Hz, and a separately powered cabinet that handles the last octave below that. The end result is a system that sounds like it is fully horn-loaded down to 25Hz, but in a much smaller package than it would be if there was a 25Hz folded horn.
Sensitivity is 104db 1W/1M and power handling is 200 watts continuous. We don’t know of another speaker on the market with such a combination of sensitivity and power handling. The Vittora system is capable of whisper detail at one-one hundredth of a watt, and thundering power at 200 watts, capabilities that are very unique indeed.
