Vantage 3 Live

Vantage 3 Live is a unique product: a complete system delivering stunning audio quality combined with exceptional convenience and flexibility.

Vantage 3 Live will have you re-listening to all your favorite recordings, enjoying its unrivaled dynamics and scale, breathtaking detail and delicacy. Most of all, it has a musical, natural sound with all types of music, whether recreating an intimate acoustic recording or the spine-tingling, electric atmosphere of a rock concert.

Sophisticated and natural with life-size scale, Vantage Live exceeds any expectation from an integrated system and rivals the very best achievable with multi-component, traditional hi-fi systems. Vantage Live is the culmination of many years of research and development between YG and Bel Canto.

Two compact, three way loudspeakers combine with an elegant controller to blend harmoniously with any size of room and all design aesthetics.

Advanced DSP crossovers have been tuned on the basis of extensive listening, combined with complex, multi-domain physics and acoustic models, optimized using supercomputer and cloud computing resources.

Top tier DSP and DAC circuits provide effortless dynamics, clarity and musicality. Custom amplification provides a dedicated 700W amplifier for each of the three drive units, yet the whole system is cool and efficient. The result is a velvet black background with a beautiful, smooth delivery across all types of music. Incredible dynamics, astounding realism and deep, authoritative bass.

The Reference 3 models include new technologies and design innovations based on novel theoretical models, detailed multi-domain simulations and thousands of hours of listening. An new, hybrid Lattice tweeter uses a novel airframe in a specially-selected aerospace alloy, machined by YG Acoustics. It delivers exceptionally low distortion over a huge bandwidth, with a wide imaging sweet-spot.

Speaker Type

• 3-way DSP active loudspeaker with preamp controller supporting analog, digital, phono and Roon Ready streaming inputs

Drivers

• Lattice hybrid tweeter with advanced airframe
• 18.5 cm (7.25”) BilletCore driver with advanced neodymium motor magnets
• 22 cm (8.75”) BilletCore driver with ultra-high field strength motor

Response

• Usable output extends from 26 Hz to 40 kHz
• Exceptionally low distortion throughout range

Crossover

Advanced DSP crossover optimized using supercomputer and cloud computing resources, then tuned across thousands of hours of critical listening. Exceptional phase, amplitude and impulse accuracy response at all volume levels.

Amplifier

• Dedicated 700 W amp per drive unit = 2.1 kW per channel
• 0.0006% THD+N 20 Hz to 20 kHz at half peak power
• 137 dB SNR unweighted ref. peak power
• 93% efficiency at peak power
• 250 μΩ output impedance

Digital Inputs

• AES (XLR)
• SPDIF (BNC)
• TOSLINK
• USB
• Ethernet
• AES
• SPDIF
• TOSLINK: 24bit up to 192KS/s
• Ethernet: 24bits to 192KS/s and DSD64
• USB2 Audio: 24bits to 384KS/s
• DSD64/128 (DoP)

Analog Inputs

• 2 × Line inputs RCA
• Maximum input: 2.2 Vrms
• Input Impedance: 10kΩ

Phono Input

• Sensitivity: MM: 2.5mV to 5mV; MC: 0.25mV to 0.5mV
• Input load: MM: 47kΩ; MC: 50Ω, 100Ω, 500Ω, 1kΩ
• RIAA Accuracy: +/-0.25dB, 50Hz – 15kHz
• THD+N: <0.01% 1kHz A-weighted SNR: >70dB A-weighted

General

• Controller: 94 × 400 × 316 mm (3.7 × 15.7 × 12.4”) H×W×D
• Controller weight: 8.7kg (19.2lbs)
• Speaker dimensions: 112 × 32 × 54 cm (44 × 13 × 21”) H×W×D
• Speaker weight: 80 kg (176 lbs) per channel unpackaged

Finishes

• Standard finishes are silver and black
• Please contact your dealer for other finish options