Voice Victory Premium – Premium Entry!

Intro

A floorstanding, Premium Loudspeaker for 5500 Euro per pair? That can’t be possible, can it? After all, with premium car brands, you always pay a LOT more for premium. Purely for the ‘badge’ and the nice, tidy materials and finish. Translated to audio, a set of ‘premiums’ should therefore cost at least 10,000 Euros. Right?

With 21Kg each, two fast, powerful woofers and a nice Morel soft dome tweeter in a round, resonance free tube, this is already a very different kind of speaker than we normally have in front of us. Now, we recently tested the Voice Victory Supreme, so we are used to it by now. But when this Voice Victory Premium is in a store among the standard boxes, of course it stands out! Especially in this cool bronze color (you pay a bit more for that color).

Round = better?

We already explained in the review of the Supreme that a round shape has its advantages: significantly less to no standing waves and extreme rigidity. That’s just inherent to the shape.

The Supreme does have a different tube thickness than the Premium. The Premium is 10mm instead of 12mm. The front in which the units are mounted remains 25mm. Now the diameter of the tube is different, so in terms of stiffness and resonances it will not make a huge difference, we estimate.

As with the Supreme, we see a metal top plate with the logo in it and a base with a cushioning rubber on which the Voice Victory stands neatly. We would, however, like to see an option for a nice base on which the speaker stands more firmly. The Supreme stands a bit firmer because of its weight and diameter; the Premium wobbles a bit more on its feet, allowing larger pets or children to really knock the speaker over. And that would be bad for both the speaker and (worse) the animal or child. But Ferdinand said he is working on it. So that’s good!

Units

Like the Supreme, the Voice Victory Premium uses Dayton Audio’s dual voice-coil woofers, but a Morel soft-dome tweeter. These units are then in a two-way configuration (crossover at 4300 Hz!). The woofers are helped by a bass reflex system to get a little deeper. We measured that it picks up nicely from 45 Hz. 35 Hz is achievable (-9dB approximately), depending on placement. But more on this later in the measurements.