Description
EgglestonWorks’ product development team is committed to two uncompromising ideals: the pursuit of musical truth and freedom from listening fatigue. Our twenty-year history of building the world’s finest studio monitors has demonstrated the importance of combining high resolution with a mellifluous sonic character that enables mastering engineers to work—and listen—for hours at a time without aural irritation or distraction. We feel that what an engineer needs in a speaker is exactly what music lover needs: fatigue-free listenability. Our philosophy might sound obvious but the truth is that accuracy often comes at the expense of listenability and vice-versa. Not so with EgglestonWorks, where resolution and musicality ALWAYS go hand-in-hand.
Another hallmark of EgglestonWorks’ design philosophy is to create the absolute best speaker at any given price point. This might sound logical–doesn’t every company want to make the best speaker possible?–but the imperative to produce a complete product range often raises concerns that a particular model might be “too good,” have “too much bass,” etc. for its price point, thereby stealing sales from other models. EgglestonWorks doesn’t share this belief. Our goal is to make every speaker we produce the absolute best performer that it can POSSIBLY be for any given price level. Compared to many of our competitors, EgglestonWorks offers a small collection of models and each speaker within our product line is intended to deliver state-of-the-art sound quality within given parameters of room size, gear and budget. This approach guarantees that each EgglestonWorks model is an exceptional value as well as a superb performer.
Our “Small Batch” production system is equally special. Rather than mass-produce on an assembly line, every pair of EgglestonWorks is hand built to order by our team of trained craftsmen. This approach makes EgglestonWorks more responsive to our customers’ desires and ensures we don’t wind up with excess inventory. Most importantly, “Small Batch” production enables us to tailor each pair of speakers to its owner’s desires (a virtually unlimited palette of custom colors is available) and enables a level of quality control which cannot be achieved in any other way. The result is a finished product designed to exceed its owner’s expectations for a lifetime.
Like all EgglestonWorks’ “Small Batch” Loudspeakers, Kiva is designed and manufactured in Memphis: America’s First City of Music. The first EgglestonWorks model named in honor of Memphis’ musical heritage, Kiva was a local recording studio co-founded by Eagles alumnus Joe Walsh. It was here that Stevie Ray Vaughn recorded “In Step” and “The Sky is Crying.” Kiva delivers levels of performance and musicality unmatched at its price.
Design Highlights
The Kiva is so closely derived from the Viginti that before we chose a name, we simply called it “Baby Viginti”. Although Kiva’s drivers are different from those found in Viginti, the cabinet design is almost identical.
