The Perseids is our first speaker to fully embrace both of our goals for design and sound. It is a 3-way design housed in a cast concrete enclosure with an Osage Orange (Hedge!) front. This particular design has two port tubes - one on the rear for the main enclosure and the one in the front that ports the internal enclosure for the midrange driver. That port is terminated with a wheel-thrown porcelain fitting.

    Concrete was chosen for the main enclosure because it's heavy, it's solid, and we love concrete. These are cast in a mold then polished and finished once cured. These speakers weigh in at 250 lbs. each and have zero rattle or ring. Concrete is natural material for speakers for that reason. It very much deadens any sound waves and prevents them from going where they are not supposed to go. As a material matrix, our concrete is composed of Portland cement, sand, gravel and a few other ad-mixtures, or material components, added to help with the casting process and the performance of the final product. Concrete also contains a large amount of air which makes it ideal for sound containment.

    Osage Orange was also chosen because we love it, but it's also a fascinating tree in American history. It is a native North American species, and it was planted in numbers into the hundreds of millions on farms throughout the Midwest to function as a "shelterbelt" in the 1930s as part of the efforts to stave off the agricultural disasters brought on by the Dust Bowl. Before that, Native Americans used it for bows and other tools. It caught the attention of French explorers in this area when they saw it in action as a bow, calling it bois d'arc. It has been said that one bow of Osage Orange was worth a blanket and a horse in trade.

    Osage Orange is locally known here as HEDGE, and we borrowed our name from that. It is the hardest and hottest burning wood native to North America. The lumber is a beautiful orange color and is incredibly strong and fun to work with. It bends well, finishes well and it can even last for decades out in the weather.

     As a speaker, The Perseids lives up to those standards set by those amazing materials. The sound is smooth, clear and strong. Beautiful mids and bass, topped by a clean upper end. These can be auditioned with an appointment, and they customized by color of concrete and species of wood if desired.

    These are on a limited edition run of 10 pairs and the price is available upon request.