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First conceived by Vivid Audio’s founder and designer Laurence Dickie while he was quarantined in a hotel during the Covid pandemic, the five-way Moya 1 loudspeaker has now broken cover, complete with a £400,000 price tag.

Measuring 1.66m high and 1.21m deep – and weighing 346kg a piece – the Moya 1’s distinctively styled cabinet comprises four ported enclosures hewn from a carbon-reinforced sandwich composite, finished as standard in Piano Black, Lexus Pearl White or Oyster Grey Matte, and with PPG automotive finishes available on demand. Each tapered tube enclosure features two opposed 225mm alloy woofers, with 100mm edge-wound voice-coils and 11kg motor assemblies, connected internally via steel ‘tie-bars’ to counter vibration – bass response is rated to 19Hz (–6dB). Completing the speaker’s five-way driver configuration are bass/mid, midrange, upper-mid and tweeter units mounted to its front baffle, the latter two employing ‘Diamond-Like Coated’ (DLC) alloy domes.

Vivid Audio’s fourth-order Linkwitz-Riley crossover (125Hz/550Hz/1.7kHz and 4kHz) is divided into three sections, with the mid/treble arms positioned well away from the bass drivers. The speaker claims a 93dB sensitivity and nominal impedance of 5ohm (with a 2.5ohm minimum at 40Hz).

The Maya 1 will appear exclusively at the UK Hi-Fi Show Live, courtesy of Sound Design Distribution, in Sept ’24. Vivid Audio, Utrecht, Netherlands, 0800 009 6213; vividaudio.com