Best Build Quality Speakers You Owned.

Easy one for me.

Isobariks
Glastonburys
SBLs
Saras
Cambridge R40s
ES14s

Good call on the Epos. Forgot about the ES11's I had last year. Very decent.

S.

Ugly to naive people. Realistic to sensible people.

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Electric Beach FH3.

It made me laugh anyway. 

Mark levinson red rose rosebud II, I couldn't say best build quality without opening them up, but definitely the best finish. Shame the sound didn't match the finish.

  What, like this?

But you are the guru Paul.
Now stop posting such fantastic pictures and we can all stop drooling 

My Tannoy DC10Ts were probably the best finished speakers I've had





Not that my Legacy Ardens are too shabby, you just have to polish them yourself!

They were the first pair I manufactured Westie, and I remember importing some high quality curly birch veneer, about a 1.5 mm thick consecutive sheets totalling over £230. The front framing was from solid European Walnut and I still have the timesheets logging over £230 hours involved in their production. A mate came up with the idea of vacuum forming the curved sides rather than making loads of ribs for laminating flexible thin sheets. After lots of experiments and cracked boards we settled on 4nr 6mm Birch ply sheets vacuum formed over a custom former, the vacuum former being a DIY jobbie. The tuning was a little way out and took some refinement before getting them spot on. Like all prototype pairs, it was a labour of love but the final pair were made to a pretty decent standard and finished in water based polyurethane topcoat.

Like a fool, I sold them for half of what it cost to build them when raising money for a new 'speaker design. Each new design probably takes a good few £1000's in R&D costs if honest.

The second pair are the recently revised Mk2 pair with some dimensional changes as well as tuning changes and they're visually and sound-wise a step up from the first pair. That is a customer's pair in the photo before the drive unit was fitted. I have some spare 315 drive units knocking around and would love to make another pair for here but the Mrs wouldn't appreciate another pair joining the 9 or so speakers currently residing in our lounge!


.....post edit.....errrrr now 11 speakers as I seem to have acquired yet another pair 

These are nice little things

Mission 752, both original and revised Freedoms - Very solid build, natural, balanced, punchy, non fatiguing sound from a great Aerogel mid/bass driver, non edgy silk dome tweeter. Probs average crossover.

Spendor D7, Quality build inside and out. Tweeter, mid / bass drivers and internals all top notch, equates to excellent, natural, accurate, revealing sound / excellent transducers. Top quality real wood veneer finish cabinets.

Looking back at the rosebud mk2' the finish was beautiful but the ribbon tweeter and driver in black looks ugly.