Phi Audio System – Handmade

Phi was the first wooden speaker system I manufactured. It took 2 weeks to design, simulate, and model, and 2 months to manufacture.

A minimalist approach was taken, nearing a brutalist design, which is different than most of my projects, but necessary for working with 3/4″ slabs.

This project taught me why many things in our life, such as speaker systems, are so bare and “boxy” while theory shows this to be against function, let alone form: manufacturing capabilities.

Although studies from the 1960s onwards prove the disadvantages to SPL and Q within box enclosures, this is where the majority of research and development has gone in industry. Form has Function.

Drafted on Paper – Modelled on Blender – Cut from Maple Wood and Purple Heart – Simulated in Xsim

Full Range Driver with a high-pass at 80hz, and Midrange Wooder with low-pass at 100hz with 60hz to 20khz frequency range