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Volti Audio owners, is the fire still there?

Hello all,

Short version, reaching  out to the Volti Audio owners here.  Is the fire still there for your Volti speakers?  Do you still love them today as much as when they first hit the house?  I know Greg loves long wall speaker placement with relatively nearfield listening position.   Anyone doing more a short wall setup, especially with the speakers pulled into the room?  If the fire isn't  still there where did you move to and why?

I am Florida based an plan to visit Volti in February at the Florida Audio Expo but it is always hard to fully assess them fully it that type of an environment for a limited listening time.  

 

Long version, long time listener, first time caller.  I've done the searches and read the forum for as much detail about Volti owners experience.  I have that itch again to change speakers and  I am strongly considering scratching that itch with some Volti's.  I have only heard the  Vittoras greater than 10 years ago at RMAF, so prior to Rivals and certainly the Razz.  Since that time I have used 2 different  "high efficiency" speakers.  No need to name names (not looking to rehash previous discussions about brand X vs brand Y), but one was a rear horn loaded lowther based speaker and the other a traditionally designed 2 way.  They both sound great, with with certain types of music are truely magical however neither one seems to "rock out" or have that "fun" factor that Volti is known for (yes, I want it all).

 

Front end is based on a TW Acustic TT with 2 arms and multiple cartridges

Border Patrol DAC

Pass XP25 phono stage

Pass XP22 preamp

Don't have much interest in changing those.

Current amp is a Pass XA30.8 which would be subject to change if I pull the trigger on the Volti with obvious choices being something tube based (can't pull off any of the Border Patrol amps right now) or if SS moving to the Pass XA25 which reportedly plays nicely with the Volti.

Appreciate your thoughts and input.

loki_ut

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laynes
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Sounds good - my guess is you can hear most anything you want....

Yes, I bought the American Speaker Cables (TWL) for my prior speakers, Sapphire M3s so I haven't used any others to compare.

I had originally planned on putting them (well, the M3's actually) on the long wall but that would have meant 1 of the first reflections would have been that curtain in front of the glass doors. So I wanted that wall (of glass with a curtain covering it) to be the front wall since no acoustic treatment can be mounted. I close the curtains of course when I listen and have some deflection panels I put out / front wall. I've also purchased more plants.

laynes
59 posts
 

100% yes to the fire still there. My Rivals bring me many, many SPH (smiles per hour), with a few LOL's thrown in there.

I'm running a PrimaLuna Evo 300i with KT-150s and a mix of RadioTechniques and Brimars up front. Phonostage is a Modwright 9.0x with Telefunken 6922's.

I like a big, realistic, "OMG this sounds amazing sound" and that is what my system gives me. 

I listen to about 40% rock, 40% hard rock, 10% electronic and the rest of mix of jazz, old school rap and misc.

I'll be at the Tampa show on that Saturday.

laynes
59 posts
 

I've had mine for almost exactly 1 year and they are my end game. PM me if you want to hear them when you are in town. There are a few of us going back to my place on Sat late afternoon after we are at the show. 

Mine sit on Townshend Podiums which made a big difference (doing the same that they do to most others - definition of instruments, sound stage and other good stuff I can't remember). I'm 99.99% vinyl btw. I own a cd player but haven't plugged it in, in a few months. Pics are in my profile although I've changed things up some from a year ago.

laynes
59 posts
 

Greg owns Volti. 

My wife left the building for a few hours yesterday so I was able to turn it up and still amazed at how good my system sounds. Sure there are a few things here-and-there to work on but those are upstream from the speakers (and possibly more on the room itself) but are minor. I finished with Theivery Corporation's "Symphonik" and it was LOL good.

Fairly new review of the Rivals from a few weeks ago: I like to hear of others placement with these speakers:

 

I do wonder how much difference those outside crossovers make (to my ears). 

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