Voxativ Loudspeakers are located in Berlin.

From humble beginnings, Voxativ promoted 'full range' loudspeaker drivers developed from the famous Lowther driver designs of Donald Chave & Paul Voigt from the 1930s - super-high sensitivity, paper-coned drivers with large magnets, double-wound voice coils with ultra-narrow magnet gaps & originally using powered electro-magnets (field-coils) before permanent magnets became widely available.

Voxativ now have highly refined paper & wood-fibre coned drivers & also offer a range of permanent magnet & (more costly) field-coil loudspeaker drivers, together with both single-driver & multi-driver cabinet loudspeakers.

The field-coil loudspeakers require DC power supplies to energise the electro-magnet field coils & Voxativ offer battery, SS or tube-regulated types.
Also a range of vacuum tube amplifiers.

Darko visits Voxativ with owner Holger Adler in Berlin:

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A friend of mine in Aus has a pair of the Voxativ 9.87 speakers with their top field core drivers. Driven by Absolares top Altius pre/power combo. Stunning stuff for sure!!

I cant imagine how good the Appagio's sound, A dream speaker, maybe one day or not lol

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I had Lowthers for around 10 years & you can imagine the appeal of ultra lightweight cone drivers & the ability to use them with no crossover between amp & loudspeaker - super transparent.

However, the Lowthers had/have some problems, which Voxativ say they have solved.

'Field coil' drivers are a development of another vintage audio technology, not exclusively related to the Lowther concept designed originally by Paul Voigt in the 1930s.
Fans say that using a current-energised wire coil to generate a magnetic field (as opposed to a permanent magnet like most almost all loudspeaker drivers) makes for a different sound.

An Australian Voxativ user sent me some pics, a couple of which I'll take the liberty of sharing here....





If you're familiar with Lowther you'll recognise the obvious heritage.

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They look like my friends drivers. He has upgraded the bass units since those were taken. I must say Id love to hear them.