We have a customer who loves to dream about new, high-end speaker designs. He calls often to ask about this new driver or that. And when he gets the feeling that certain drivers are worth experimenting with, he asks us to purchase them and build a test pair. He may never take delivery of the finished product, but very much enjoys experimenting.
The Salk Silks were one of our collaborations with him. And there have been a few which never saw the light of day. But that is the nature of speaker design.
A while ago, he called saying that he had heard great things about Seas Exotic drivers and asked if we had ever looked at them. I told him that we had not, that they were a bit too expensive to play with (about $3000 for a set of drivers for a pair of speakers). But he had heard great things from others and so we ordered the drivers and built a test cabinet.
Dennis Murphy worked on the crossover and said he was really impressed with the performance of the woofer. So we were excited enough to build some actual cabinets in anticipation of receiving the final crossover schematics. We used some spare scraps of Brazilian rosewood left over from another project (thanks funkmonkey).
Here are some pics...
And a close-up...
The speakers are larger than they appear in the photos. I'll post the specs shortly...
- Jim
