
I’ve been working behind the scenes on some ambitious projects, and struggling to find machinists who are not only willing to work on one-off designs, but prepared to challenge what they believe to be possible in terms of precision. The struggle to find machinists has been a steeper hill to climb than learning CAD modelling,…

The primary engineering challenge in developing many of my projects, most notably Leoht Version 2, has been component modelling in CAD (computer-aided design). While Leoht Version 1 relied on hand-fabricated templates remodelled into CAD, this workflow lacked the dimensional precision required for tighter tolerances and prevented direct design iteration.

This is a pair of speakers built based on a kit from Hi-Fi Collective, the Speaker Kit No. 1.

A year ago I introduced Project Leoht, my take on an ultra-low mass turntable inspired by Rega Research. I learned a lot from that project and version 2.

My friend Michael Fidler was having a clearout, and offered a surplus pair of MarkAudio Alpair 10.3 drivers.

A pair of AR35BX were local to me and the price was right. They needed some work, with pealing vinyl, degraded driver foam surrounds and failing components in the crossovers.