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Hello everyone. Volti Audio was established in 2010, the same year the New Orleans Saints won their Super Bowl! You might notice the Volti Audio logo colors. Not that I was a huge fan of the Saints at the time (Steeler Fan for life) but I was rooting for them in their only SB appearance. I began Volti Audio after a successful 20-year career as a home-builder in Maine. The recession of 2008 really hurt our business, and I remember in March of 2009 sitting down and having a discussion with my wife about the state of our business and making plans for the future. For the first time in twenty years, we had no contracts to build homes. I didn't mind the time off, but I'm not a person who can sit around for very long doing nothing. So I began building my own wooden midrange horns (later called the V-Trac horn), designed to fit perfectly in place of the original ones supplied in Klipsch Klipschorn speakers. I had been working on upgrading my own Khorns for a couple of years, and people on the Klipsch Forum were asking me if I would build horns for their speakers. Next thing I knew, I was busy everyday in my shop building midrange horns, and soon after I learned how to design and build crossovers. I bought dozens of compression drivers and spent a great deal of time discovering which ones I preferred the sound of. By the end of 2009 I was able to offer my customers a complete upgrade package for their Khorns, and the feedback from my Khorn Upgrades customers was amazing and humbling at the same time. Volti Audio was becoming a real business, and I was beginning to see a pathway out of the stressful home-building business and into a small manufacturing business, doing something I was very passionate about. Having designed and built and discovered everything necessary to replace the top end components of Klipsch Khorns, a new bass horn design is all I needed to have my own fully horn-loaded speaker to offer for sale. It didn't take long for the Vittora to gain recognition in the industry as one of the best sounding horn speakers you could buy. 'Not your Father's Klipsch' was a common phrase uttered by the people coming out of my show room at the trade shows. Volti Audio horn speakers are much more refined sounding, much wider in bandwidth, and they do not suffer the vices that have plagued lesser-quality horn speakers for decades - colorations, honkiness, harshness, glare, etc... Audiophiles have long had to put up with these vices in order to enjoy what is inherently great about horns - dynamics, effortless power delivery, low distortion. It was always a tradeoff that some were willing to make, others not. Volti speakers offer all the dynamic fireworks that you expect from horns, without the vices. They are also beautifully built. Build quality is very important to me. I'm trying to build products that will last a very long time. I use Baltic birch plywood, CNC cutting, high-quality adhesives, proper bracing and damping, and proper building techniques to offer the highest quality wooden speaker cabinet on the market. Volti now has a range of horn speaker offerings with prices starting at $7,500 per pair as of this writing. Please check out our website for more information. https://voltiaudio.com/ When you're there, please consider signing up for my newsletter, which will provide you with some interesting reading and keep you up to date on any new product offerings and specials. My hope here on AudioCircle is that we can have good conversations about horn speakers, the systems built around them, and how we can all find happiness in the music that these systems bring to our lives. Greg RobertsVolti Audio
Hey, Greg!Huge fan of your stuff, man. Welcome!!
Hi Greg and welcome. I saw the new Vittora announcement on Part Time Audiophile. Looks awesome. Don P
See you in February at the Florida show
Hey Brother Greg,Great to see you here!See you in Tampa in a couple of weeks!Cheers,Pete
If I win the lottery, Volti Vitorra would be on an extremely short list
