The Speaker

Over the last several years, I have been using stand-mounted speakers in my living room system. I have been frustrated by the stands and all the little goodies between the speaker and the floor. While thrilled with the sound, I have been noodling over changing to a floor-standing speaker if there were only something out there I liked. I was not looking, just a tickle in the back of my brain, until Axpona 2025.

While working at the AXPONA 2025 tradeshow, I took some time to look around, and a little birdie told me to visit this one room with Geshelli Labs electronics and Neil Blanchard Designs speakers.

The Neil Blanchard Designs 4t4 debuted at Axpona 2025, triggered me, shot me out of a cannon, and more.

[www.nbdesigns.work/shop/p/to… ](4t4 Speaker)

These little one-meter-tall floor-standing speakers exist in a realm I know little about: DIY speakers.

What in the world is a DIY speaker? I am traveling down one lightly traveled path with few road signs. With some help from several friends, I am building speakers.