Loudspeakers, Horns, Cases & Cabinets
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This will be a pair of 1.7m long horn path bass horns. 50-350Hz. These are 2.15m tall on the stands and with driver enclosure
Complete finished and with special round metal grilles
Rear panels are foam sealing stripped and removeable for access. Fitted here with bi-amping binding posts
Current build. These will house HPD drivers and feature custom grilles and plinths
My special narrow GRF-N cabinets in 21mm premium birch plywood. These have the same horn dimensions as the rectangular original cabinets.Drivers fitted and custom half length grilles
Solid 21mm premium birch plywood
Fader installed and power supply
Connections and power supply. Fitted by customer in HK
Tractrix profile
Tractrix Profile
Le Cleach profile + designed to match the throat angle of the Faital HF10AK compression driver
Fitted with Eminence Kappa 12 drivers. These horns were modelled for true 80-400Hz frequency response. The are fast, dynamic, punchy and very natural sounding.
Turned on my lathe. In Poplar wood.
A pair of premium birch plywood Tannoy GRF replica cabinets bound for Scotland on a pallet. These feature HPD 15" dual concentric drivers and bi-wire / bi-amp capability. They also include the tear drop baffle for improved bass claity. Finished in gloss lacquer.
Made from 21mm and 24mm premium birch ply. Computer modelled to faithfully reproduce the GRF backloaded horn characteristics but in my own Narrow or Slim design. Easier to fit in smaller rooms. Here fitted with Tannoy Golds. These feature the tear drop internal baffle
Wilmslow black cloth was chosen by the customer. Wilmslow fixing studs where used with a 12mm plywood grille framework made to fit perfectly.
A complete re-case in 1.2mm sheet copper. The entire contents of this Audio Note Step Up Transformer were transfered. My bespoke Copper phono sockets were fitted. Ebony turned feet were also fitted. The earth strapping was improved as it was a problem in the old case.
Completely constructed in Copper this bespoke case has copper shielding between PSU and Phono stage and my custom OFC copper phono sockets. Rewired with Hifi Collective pure silver signal wire and I installed the AN upgrade pack too.
Complete build and installation of a Najda DSP board. PSU, wiring the lot. Commissioning and testing in my setup.
Volume knob in ebont for the Najda case project
This time in solid oak. Also featuring aluminum turned feet
This was a birch ply speaker project that I veneered in American Cherry using my vacuum bagpress.
Tannoy GRF-R replica cabinets for 15" Tannoy drivers. Faithfully built to original dimensions but with far superior materials. Dimensions approx: 40" (101cm) high x 24" (61cm) wide x 19.5" (49.5cm) deep Made from hardwood birch ply, 21 & 24mm. You supply the drivers, I build / fit / Test. I can also source drivers if required. These sound fabulous and have proved a very popular upgrade from Berkeleys, Ardens, Lancasters etc. Collection is welcome, or delivery can be arranged.
A shot of the regular sized Tannoy GRF replica speakers.
Pair of black lacquered 550Hz horns complete with aluminium screw on adapter rings for Vitavox S2 compression drivers
These are my own design / a speciality of mine and are proving very popular. I have computer modelled the back-loaded horn to ensure the horn size is maintained and thus the GRF sound is preserved. Where the usual wide GRF-R foot print is too wide to accommodate. Dimensions approx: 50" (127cm) high x 18" (45.7cm) wide x 19" (48cm) deep.
Birch ply
Made from redwood pine (softwood) or wood of your choice. Throat fitting Vitavox 2.160" 16 TPI Whitworth screw thread. Other throat adapters e.g. JBL 4 bolt pattern available. Range of finishes available. Finished here in matt slate grey. See my Customer feedback section for more info.
Made from curved laminated high quality birch ply thiis exponential horn is 1.4m long and covers the frequency range 90Hz to around 500Hz. See my Customer feedback section for more info.