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About Vivid Audio Since a young age, Laurence Dickie has been passionate about music and the sciences but his particular obsession has been with loudspeakers. With his insatiable zest for learning and discovering, he has been developing his passion from school days through University and beyond.  Laurence (Dic) has honed his skills in the design of loudspeakers of extraordinary performance. His achievements to date are noteworthy, to say the least. While he held the position of senior research engineer with B&W loudspeakers Dic was responsible for a number of innovations including the Matrix system for cabinet reinforcement, the pressure vessel subwoofer and most prominently, in 1993, the B&W Nautilus which set a landmark in freedom from resonance and reflection. Joining forces with the South African contingent of Bruce and Deone Gessner and Philip Guttentag (forming Vivid Audio), was the ideal career move since he could now be involved in designing and engineering products in their entirety. It meant his having a say at every stage of development, from the acoustic performance to the aesthetic design of each product. Dic’s involvement in the Vivid Audio story is one that started approximately five years ago when he set out to create a range of drivers for professional monitors. He was introduced to the other members of Vivid two years later when it quickly became clear that these same drivers would be eminently suitable for a new range of groundbreaking designs they had been developing.  For a new high-end speaker manufacturer to succeed it was clear from the outset
that such a company would have to deliver products featuring more than just innovative
engineering. These products would have to deliver an acoustic performance rendering
them virtually invisible. They would need to refine acoustic performance to a
new level which encourages the listener to want more, rather than tire and need
a break.
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