Home Audio DIY heaven
Linkwitz Lab is home to the Orion, Phoenix, and Pluto speaker systems. These are not sets of speakers that you will find in Best Buy or Circuit City, nor even your local high-end home audio store. The speaker systems designed by Linkwitz Lab are primarily DIY, but they do allow ordering of partial and fully completed sets. There are many reviews on the Orions in particular that compare them to some very expensive high-end audio systems, and yet they can be purchased at a fraction of the cost.
The plans cost $290 and include:
* Drawings for all cabinet parts
* Mechanical assembly instructions
* Crossover/equalizer circuit diagram
* ORION ASP printed circuit boards (2)
* Material list for electrical components
* Loading chart for printed circuit boards
* Electrical assembly instructions
* Test signal CD for crossover and speaker
* Electrical test instructions
* Speaker placement and hook-up recommendations
Whether you want to go the hardcore DIY route and make a set of these beauties from scratch or have Linkwitz Lab do some of the work for you, there is no doubt that you will end up with a set of exquisite speakers for a very reasonable price.
Heard the Orions back in a DIY hifi exhibition some years back with a bevy of chipamps, diy dac & modified transport. Very well worth money beating stuff costing 10 times more. Interestingly they need not be placed far from rear walls like most boxed speakers.