[mcullinan]

Youve dug a moat around your listening room, added 3 grow your own vicious crocodiles to said moat... bought a portatoilet and have been listening without sleep right? How do they sound?
 
Mike

[Albireo]

Has Chris even received them yet? If I understood Bob correctly in his last update, the cabinets may have arrived from Tim last Friday, and even if they did Bob wouldn't have been able to get them out until some time this week. But then I'm being defensive only because I'm next in line, after mixit.

[mcullinan]

idk... I thought that meant they were done when they come from Tim.
You probably know more than I do.
Mike

[lonewolfny42]

Youve dug a moat around your listening room, added 3 grow your own vicious crocodiles to said moat... bought a portatoilet and have been listening without sleep right? How do they sound?
 
Mike

Ah...Mike. Now you should know that a normal pregnancy does take 9 months...and that time is almost at hand....so....as of yet...no stork has arrived.

When the Mini's do arrived....I'll post their arrival....

As for crocodiles....none here.....but I really do have three dogs....and their not real friendly ...and they do have sharp teeth....woof,woof.

[lonewolfny42]

Youve dug a moat around your listening room, added 3 grow your own vicious crocodiles to said moat... bought a portatoilet and have been listening without sleep right? How do they sound?
 
Mike

Ah...Mike. Now you should know that a normal pregnancy does take 9 months...and that time is almost at hand....so....as of yet...no stork has arrived.

When the Mini's do arrived....I'll post their arrival....

As for crocodiles....none here.....but I really do have three dogs....and their not real friendly ...and they do have sharp teeth....woof,woof.

Mike.....



At 9:45AM EST......the stork arrived....twin packages...very well packed.

Their out of their boxes....and sitting on the dining room table....
and.....looking very good.

I have no time now to listen ....and I still need to move things around in my audio room.

I'll post up another thread with photos and comments by Sunday....busy work schedule right now.

Thank You Bob.....their looking good .......

                               Chris

[woodsyi]

At 9:45AM EST......the stork arrived....twin packages...very well packed.

A boy and a girl!   

One with binding post and one with receptor? 

[Albireo]

A boy and a girl!   

One with binding post and one with receptor? 

I believe you mean one with a binding post and the other with a bana... OK, enough already. 

Chris: I'm sure you're going to be well-pleased with the Minis. I know I am.

[Goosepond]

You guys are not very encouraging. I didn't realize it took 9 mos. for the mini's to be born. That means, in spite of what Bob says, I've got a while to go.

Any idea what premature mini's might sound like? 

Gene

[Aether Audio]

Guys,

Remember this?:
http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=54677.0

Finally, we find ourselves in the position of having completed most of the CNC programming for all of our own enclosures.  The Minis are done and are being produced.  Timepiece 3.0s are done, likewise.  Today, the Continuum programs will be completed.  Revelation Grand Masters are partially done (bottom enclosures) and Revelation MR-1 bottom enclosures are yet to be re-done, but we have some in stock.  Finally, we are back where we started – doing everything in-house ourselves.  Hindsight being 20/20 as it is, this should have been the plan from the beginning.  The Mini saga is nothing more than an example of the pitfalls a company encounters when trying to solicit outside vendors.

As slow as we have been up to this point, all I can offer is that future orders will not suffer the same.

To reiterate and and offer even further detail... things are different now.  FINALLY... for the first time since we officially started the business by moving into our present facility and investing in a plethora of woodworking equipment, we are in  the position we should have been 3 years ago.

Since the very first day you guys have been reading about us here on AC, we have been engaged in an ongoing process of R&D and Industrial Engineering.  Along the way we were forced to go into production, simply for the sake of survival - while still trying to refine every step in the process of building enclosures...and we had 3 people to do it all (and one was part time)... then last summer even then the part-time partner completely left our ranks.

So... for all intents and purposes we amassed 3 years of Non-Recoverable Enginering losses (NREs) and at the same time attempted to operate as a functioning manufacturer - with no more than 2.5 to 3  people at any given time.  Trust me... you have no idea how hard that was.  Add to this, the one guy I could count on - my son Jason - had essentially no prior experience in woodworking and we had no resources to send him to training classes.  God love him - he's smart as a whip... but being a single young man he didn't exactly have the kind of self discipline it really requires to take on such a challenge.  You wanna talk about figuring everything out from scratch and ungodly levels of "trial and error"?  I should go see a doctor for a sanity check for having even attempting all of this.   Oh...and it's a small miracle that either Jason or I aren't in prison right now for having murdered the other.

But... those days are pretty much over.  From the beginning of the process (a design & construction approach that is relatively efficient and nice looking) to CNC programing of all parts, to engineering assembly procedures, to sanding systems, to finishing systems... all have been figured out and are now working with repeatability and consistency in final quality.  Essentially, all of the systems are in place and are now ready for scaling to higher levels of production.  The final resource we require is hired labor in order to staff each of several positions in the production line.  Of course... hiring will be based on demand for product - just like any other manufacturer faces.

As far as orders received since the first few customers ordered the  Minis (or any other model for that matter)) are concerned, they have been and continue to be accelerated through the system such that... those who ordered first will have had the longest wait and those following shorter and shorter waits until all orders are started and completed in the shortest possible time frame.

So... Goosepond, it won't be 9 months.

-Bob

[RodMCV]

So Bob... there is a Beauty in the process!

Beauty is as beauty does and when we're talking SP-Tech,
the does is to the Nth degree!
Great to hear things are getting and going Bob.

By the way, the wood stain project looks fantastic, very even uptake.
And you know my super critical eye.

Rod

[giantsteps]

Youve dug a moat around your listening room, added 3 grow your own vicious crocodiles to said moat... bought a portatoilet and have been listening without sleep right? How do they sound?
 
Mike

Ah...Mike. Now you should know that a normal pregnancy does take 9 months...and that time is almost at hand....so....as of yet...no stork has arrived.

When the Mini's do arrived....I'll post their arrival....

As for crocodiles....none here.....but I really do have three dogs....and their not real friendly ...and they do have sharp teeth....woof,woof.

Mike.....



At 9:45AM EST......the stork arrived....twin packages...very well packed.

Their out of their boxes....and sitting on the dining room table....
and.....looking very good.

I have no time now to listen ....and I still need to move things around in my audio room.

I'll post up another thread with photos and comments by Sunday....busy work schedule right now.

Thank You Bob.....their looking good .......

                               Chris

  Excuses.....excuses....


  Frank

[Captain Humble]

Congratulations Chris 
Enjoy

[lonewolfny42]

Thank you Jeff....

And Frank....too bad I don't have all the free time that you have...

I'd have more time to listen then.....



Thats the Mini on the left....and the Timepiece 2.0 on the right....
(notice the hose on the left....these speakers are...HOT  )

[TomS]

Congrats Chris - those are lovely!  Time to make some room in there    Tom

[arthurs]

Just beautiful Chris, congrats!  I can store those Timepeices for you if you need the help! 

[brj]

Congrats, Chris, but I suspect that Bob may not warranty against water damage, however!

Hey Art, it would pretty sweet to hear a maxed out set of SP Techs in your rig, but I suspect that Chris may have a hard time fitting them in the overhead bin the next time he visits DFW!

[ted_b]

Hey Chris, I've had PAD Aqueous cables in here before (fluid filled dielectric) but never saw any that actually just take their fluid right from the source!!  Wow, and the yellow color is really nice I'd use some cinder blocks as cable lifters though).     If you turn them on high does the sound just gush out all over you;  do you turn them down at night so it's just a nice little trickle of jazz, etc?     

Have fun with Bob's transducer delights!   

[lonewolfny42]

Thanks... 

A few more photo's.....(Mini and TP2)

[lonewolfny42]

[lonewolfny42]

The Mini....dark Walnut/Black finish...