Hand built speakers (They took me two years to build and I am a fairly accomplished woodworker). The lower cabinets house one 15" woofer and one 12" woofer. The upper cabinets house two 6.5" mid/woofers, one 5.25" midrange and three tweeters. Everything is hooked up in a four ohm impedence. Needless to say the speakers are extremely power hungry. These speakers do a pretty good job at testing the ability of the M200's (both from a sound quality point and from a load point). I can vibrate things in the house all the way down to about 15Hz and the highs are crystal clear (no hiss, static, crackle or anything normally associated with tweeters). Of course you have to spend a good bit of money on high end tweeters and crossover components (NPE capacitors and iron core inductors aren't going to cut it).

Sounds like we need some pictures.
I love it when someone breaks with the status quo and, like Frank Sinatra says, "I did it my way".

Lonster

Here is a link to a few pictures of the speakers being built and the finished products.

http://groups.msn.com/SpeakerPage/shoebox.msnw

Cool pictures, theproletariat - looks like some nice, solid cabinets. I can see why it took you so long to get them built. I also liked the gaggle of binding posts .

Not to mention that the orientation is a welcome change, kudos on that one. I'm always b*tching about plugging/unplugging my banana-term cables from the recessed boxes, being down low and recessed, and one of the leads always kinks from the bend in the cable.

Very nice!

Wow, those look like awesome speakers, so... when are we invited over for a demo?