Vivid Audio's Laurence Dickie, Designer of the B&W Nautilus - SoundStage! Icons (June 2020)

Laurence Dickie cofounded Vivid Audio in 2004, a high-end loudspeaker brand that has its main manufacturing facility in South Africa, and has its key R&D facility in the United Kingdom. In this interview, Dickie, who is also Vivid's chief designer, explains how his interest in loudspeakers began as a child, how he created advanced technologies and designed the groundbreaking Nautilus loudspeaker while working at Bowers & Wilkins in the 1980s and 1990s, and, finally, how he came to cofound Vivid Audio, a place that allows him the freedom to chase almost any speaker-design dream he chooses.