Model 61 (see the pretty pictures) (build a pair yourself using HUMAN parts!)

I build these beautiful speakers to be the best system possible. The cabinets are a high grade selected composite material thicker than normally used in speakers of this size and price range. Combined with my hand made drive units and a carefully designed crossover network, the result is a wonderfully sweet and linear "mini-monitor" type loudspeaker.

This model uses my proprietary parts. I build them myself here in my own factory for use in my speakers. The custom crafted six inch woofer yields tremendous bass for such a small enclosure without the "boomy" coloration often encountered in smaller speakers. It combines high power handling with low distortion. The aluminum concave dome tweeter has been praised by many, including long time loudspeaker industry veteran designers and salespeople. The crossover network is built using carefully chosen, audiophile capacitors and heavy gauge internal wiring that I had custom made. The speaker terminals are gold plated, five way binding posts for maximum sound quality.

The cabinet is veneered with real oak, in a natural finish or stained black. The size has been fine tuned to work perfectly with the woofer, and chosen such that the internal dimensions are in "golden ratio" proportions to each other, to minimize multiplication of standing wave effects. Each pair is built symmetrically, with the drivers placed off-center to reduce coloration due to cabinet edge reflections.

An ideal speaker for the discriminating music lover, where space is an important consideration. Anywhere you want uncompromised sound in a small package, you will not find a better product.

As surround speakers in a Home Theater system, their high power handling and linear response makes them ideal for the demanding listener. Their linear output and lack of coloration perfectly complements the larger speakers I make, as well as speakers built by EPI and Genesis in their heyday.

I was building a small speaker to put in my bedroom back in 1989 and I used two cabinets I had received as samples. I knew I was going to use my Aluminum Dome tweeter (PRO 002 B). I decided to use my own handmade PRO 007 woofer in them since it is such a fine unit.

The first day, I can't really tell how a speakers sounds, partly because the person who builds a speaker just can't be objective at first, and partly because the drivers and the crossover components have to break in a little before they stabilize. So I just detune my FM receiver in the factory and play the speakers at a moderate level all night on interstation hiss. This will break in the suspensions of the woofers, distribute the Ferrofluid in the tweeters, and depolarize the dielectric materials in the crossover capacitors.

So in the morning (ok, the early afternoon) I get to find out how bad of a job I've actually done of getting a design started. Well, with these I was a little taken aback! They actually sounded quite happy already. Over the next couple of days I played a fairly wide variety of music through them. They were sweet and strong on classical, supple and enigmatic on jazz, revealing yet not ruthless on rock ....

Now usually when I build something like this, I am lucky if it even works. Most of my speakers are the result of painstaking trial and error, a lot of guessing and calculating, and a fair amount of suffering. The early versions sound miserable and I spend a lot of time refining them. Not so with this speaker! I guess some serendipitous combination had been activated by my lucky estimations and borrowings.

While the first pair were built in some "hand me down" boxes, that were vinyl clad and not truly made to my specifications, the production version of this speaker is assembled into a beautiful, carefully designed cabinet.

I still get a thrill when I build a pair for a customer because the next day, after the overnight break-in period, I get to look at them and listen to them for a few hours before I pack them up. They are nimble, accurate, and in spite of their small size, they generate a clear, concise bass response.

I still have the original experimental pair in my bedroom. Maybe it's time you acquired yours?