Prodigio Audio Vitorla looks curved. Its panel is perfectly flat. The curve you see is the outline: the frame that holds the panel. The radiating surface itself is a flat electrostatic diaphragm, and that choice is deliberate.
A curved panel can spread high frequencies more widely. But it comes at a cost. The diaphragm has to be bent and tensioned at the same time, which introduces anomalies. As it moves, the forces acting on it are not the same forwards as they are backwards. This makes a curved panel unsuited to large movements, and so to deep bass. That is why many curved-panel designs need a separate dynamic woofer.
A flat panel behaves differently. It radiates forwards and backwards equally, symmetrically. It can move far enough to reproduce deep bass from the panel itself, with no woofer.
So why the curved contour? Because form matters here too. A curved outline spreads the panel’s resonant frequencies more evenly, instead of letting them pile up at one point. And it is beautiful.
Because the panel radiates to the back as well as the front, the space behind it, the reflections and the placement all shape how the music sounds. This is why Vitorla is not simply positioned within an interior; it is carefully integrated into the acoustic environment.
The result is a sculptural object standing over two metres tall, whose character is shaped by engineering and design decisions working together. With Vitorla, design is not applied to technology. It emerges from it.
Vitorla is a full-range electrostatic loudspeaker recommended for spaces of 40 m² or more, with a choice of custom colours.
