Custom enclosures and kits:
For over 10 years we have been building speaker enclosures for builders across the country. Serving speaker companies, kit builders, experimenters, designers and producers with high quality hand made enclosures. Using veneer presses for veneering, never paper backed or contact cement. Our finishing department and extensive shop facilities create the very finest quality work. Each detail, from cutting in drivers, bracing, veneering to joinery; “drop dead gorgeous” (Stereophile) Customers frequent response are “your work is amazing!, I’m shocked, astonished and delighted”.
Seas Bifrost:
As seen above, designed in Norway by Seas, a kit speaker, featuring some of the best SEAS drivers every produced.
Madisound of Madison Wis. are offering the crossovers, drivers and parts, with our enclosures a stunning high quality speaker is now available for those seeking the very best.
We offer a tower tower version is well as a 22” tall monitor, produced to order, veneer would be cherry or oak with others as special.
North Creek Okara
As seen above, a speaker kit that has been one of the most popular kit speakers ever. Available from: www.northcreekmusic.com
Over the years we have produced hundreds for builders, with many veneers, in monitor and tower versions.The Okara above is done in sepele veneer. NC are now selling the kit with a choice of tweeters. We continue to offer our cabinets to builders on a custom basis. Priced at: $275 per pair without grills in MDF, add: $135 for cherry or oak veneered. Other veneers can be ordered, contact us for details. Building time typically runs between 2 and 3 weeks.
For other veneers go to: www.certainlywood.com and select a wood, curly maple, satin wood.. having them ship the wood here and we install it instead of cheery, simply pay them for the veneer and its installed for the cherry/oak price. Very reasonable way to get something very special, as the birds eye cabinet below. Some restrictions apply. Contact us before placing any veneer orders.
Each cabinet that is veneered uses architectural veneer set under high pressure, no paper back or contact cement is used. The finish is a high build conversion varnish satin clearcoat.The black is a sprayed dull black conversion varnish.
Spirit:
As seen above, many builders want to see wood in the front instead of the black.The Spirit is the same as the Okara in a fully veneered cabinet, heavy walls, finished in a high build sprayed conversion varnish. Priced at: $ 235.00 in plain mdf without grills, veneer or finishing. Add $ 135 for cherry or oak veneer with finishing. Grills are $45 per pair.
Standard boxing/handling cost for the Okara and Spirit: $ 35 per pair. Shipping costs range from as little as $28 to $38 for the west coast.
A brief word on kit speakers.
A good example would be the Seas Bifrost as seen below. The kit can be built with limited skill. What one gets is a remarkable sound at a fraction of the retail price. Most kit builders have the most trouble with the cabinet work, and that of course is where our work fits in; when building the bifrost, the drivers are clearly some of the best made, given that, most builders want to end up with something that is superb looking as well as sounding. The sepele sample shown here is a pair that we custom built for a builder. After reviewing the design, seeing the drivers and general straight forward nature of the kit, I’m offering the cabinets as towers and as a monitor. For a fee, I will provide a complete speaker, drivers, crossovers and cabinets with grills. For more information go to the Bifrost page.
At left is an example of the North Creek Rhythm sections showing bracing, baffle construct and grill detailing. Burl veneer, high gloss finish with our in shop port construction.
Over the years we have supplied a number of firms with show samples, prototypes, experimental and unique enclosures. We look forward to building custom work for customers seeking the finest case work available. Please feel free to contact us for further details.
At right is the Quintet, designed to be offered as a kit. Purchase the drivers, crossovers, wire, fill, porting.. everything less the cabinets. We will furnish builders professional shop drawings. As in the past, we will be offering our own fully veneered and finished cabinets along with the kits for those who do not want to build the cabinets, or who want the quality of our cabinets. The goal will be to offer the Taylor sound with great bass, superb midrange resolution.
At left is the Eton 8.1 tower, built for a customer. Fiberglass hex cell woofer cone with the Eton 1” fabric dome tweeter. Amazing bass, great stage, open, time alignment is excellent. The kit can be purchases from Madisound for a very fair price. The port is produced to the Eton dimensions, volume, driver locations.. all as published by Eton. Highly recommended speaker.
