LIVEBOX Brings Swiss One-Box Immersive Audio System to High End Vienna

While LIVEBOX may be a new name to many hi-fi listeners, the project is built on some serious Swiss audio credentials. The system brings together Weiss Engineering, known for its digital audio and mastering-grade electronics, PSI Audio, a specialist in professional studio monitoring, and Illusonic, whose work in psychoacoustics and spatial audio underpins the system’s True Ambience processing.

The new system will be shown at the Austria Centre Vienna from 4th to 7th June, with LIVEBOX exhibiting on Level 1, booth 1.70. A press conference is also scheduled for Thursday, 4th June at the same booth.

At the centre of the LIVEBOX concept is what the company calls True Ambience technology. Rather than presenting itself as another wireless speaker or compact lifestyle system, LIVEBOX is pitching the product as a fully integrated high-end music system designed to create a soundstage that extends well beyond the enclosure itself.

The technology is based on crosstalk cancellation, where sound from the right speaker channels is cancelled at the listener’s left ear, and vice versa. In simple terms, the aim is to reduce the normal blending of left- and right-channel information that occurs in a room, allowing the system to present a wider, more precise stereo image from a single physical unit.

Of course, crosstalk cancellation is not a new idea in audio, and its success tends to depend heavily on careful implementation, listener position and room behaviour. LIVEBOX is therefore making a bolder claim than most one-box systems, presenting True Ambience as a way to bring something closer to the scale and emotional impact of a live performance into the home.

From left to right: Roger Roschnik of PSI Audio, Daniel Weiss of Weiss Engineering, and Christof Faller of Illusonic.

That three-way collaboration is central to the development of LIVEBOX, with Weiss Engineering contributing the digital audio and signal-processing expertise. PSI Audio has brought its active loudspeaker and studio-monitoring background, while Illusonic has added the spatial audio algorithms designed to expand depth, imaging and the overall sense of space.

LIVEBOX says the result is a system that combines digital processing, analogue speaker design and room-conscious tuning in a package intended to remain simple for the listener. The company also says the system can be set up on-site to account for both the listening space and user preference, including tonal balance.

That room-tuning element may prove important, particularly for a product that appears to rely on spatial precision as one of its main selling points. The company is also leaning into interior integration, with LIVEBOX able to be painted in almost any colour, so it can either disappear into a room or become more of a design feature.

While pricing and broader availability details have not yet been confirmed in the supplied announcement, LIVEBOX is clearly aiming at the higher end of the market from conventional all-in-one speakers. Its real test will be whether it can deliver the scale and spatial conviction being promised while still retaining the tonal accuracy and musical credibility expected from a serious high-end system.

Visitors to High End Vienna 2026 will be able to hear LIVEBOX at Weiss Engineering, Level 1, booth 1.70, at the Austria Centre Vienna from 4th to 7th June. StereoNET will also be on the ground at High End Vienna, where our team will hear LIVEBOX first-hand and bring you our impressions from the show floor.

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