The detail that jumped out at me first: these are small bookshelf cabinets, yet the maker reports bass reaching around 30 Hz anechoically, with only about 0.75 cubic feet of internal volume needed for both Epique drivers combined. For a desktop-sized pair that claims to work without a subwoofer, that seems remarkable, and the maker admits being surprised by the output of the little drivers too.
Construction looks clean and methodical. The enclosure panels and internal window brace were routed from MDF on a CNC router, using just a half sheet for the panels. The front baffles are solid walnut, crosscut on a miter saw and then milled on the CNC for the driver openings, glued on slightly oversized for alignment tolerance and sanded flush. The wood-grain baffle against the light side panels gives the pair a nice contrast. The window brace does double duty here, holding the walls parallel during glue-up.
The crossover choices stand out to me. The CSS LD25X tweeter gets a third-order section, which the maker says keeps tweeter distortion out of the final response, while the Epique mid-woofers run a second-order section. That is a serious approach for a compact build, and the stated extension of 20 kHz up top against 30 Hz down low is an impressive span for the cabinet size.
Two things remain open. The maker planned edge chamfers to soften the square cabinet profile, and a decision on swapping the current passive radiators for matching ones, once those are released, is still undecided. At roughly $1000 a pair, I think the trade-offs look reasonable.
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