"It's hard to stress just how well the Giya G1 addresses the problems that usually afllict loudspeakers, it manages to seemingly eliminate perceived distortion and reveal the music in all its dynamic, tonal and temporal glory." Jason Kennedy (HiFi+ Issue 70 - UK)
"Discovering just how resolute this speaker is makes us wonder if we ever got the best out of the B1 some five years ago. Somehow we doubt it. The Vivid K1 is undoubtedly one of the finest loudspeakers on the planet. Lord only knows how the Vivid Giya manages to improve on it's performance." Jason Kennedy, Hi Fi Choice
"The first thing you notice when firing up this speaker is that it seems to have a lower noise floor than other speakers. Backgrounds are distinctly quieter." Jason Kennedy, Hi Fi Choice
"It is always nice to come across a new brand that really offers something both fresh and interesting. In doing this, Vivid Audio has come up with a product that is as good as the very best in the class. We can't wait to hear the rest of the range.
(Vivid V1.5)" What Hi Fi (UK)
"Breathtaking transparency, superlative coherence, dizzying speed and an unyielding musicality all conspire to make one of the best compact loudspeakers currently available.
(Vivid B1)" David Price, Hi FI WORLD
"... the B1 makes an incredible all round package...this has to be truly one of the loudspeaker greats."
David Price, Hi FI WORLD
"Lightening fast, beautifully integrated, very cohesive and musically expressive." David Price, Hi FI WORLD
"Every last sinewy ounce of the violins was served up with breathtaking clarity: stark, explicit and unsullied, the B1 has tremendous tonal accuracy... the B1s were able to throw images around my listening room with greater precision than any THX multi-speaker surround system I've heard." David Price, Hi FI WORLD
"The Vivids are nothing less than bracing. Rather like walking out on a beautiful bright and crisp winter morning, the music arrives brilliantly lit and with vibrant definition and colour. Switch to the similarly priced B & W 801D, and things
become more nasal, more quacky, more monochrome, while the Quad 989 seems soft and silky but as veiled as a smoggy city sunset."
David Price, Hi FI WORLD
"Temperamentally this loudspeaker is no shrinking violet. It's not the sort of thing you buy to put on the end of any assemblage of components, in the hope that is will somehow make a nice noise." David Price, Hi FI WORLD
"... the Vivid B1 is a distinctive performer, in as much as it does't do what so many other designs at this price do. By this, I mean many others somehow manage to lose the natural timing, tonality and/or phase coherence of the original recording."
David Price, Hi FI WORLD
