how it's made
Craftsmanship
Four years. Twelve prototypes. Three redesigns. One speaker built to last.
where it began
It started as a personal project.
Four years ago, I wanted a beautiful stereo for our living room. The ones I liked were either absurdly expensive or didn't sound right. So I started building one myself.
Twelve prototypes later, my wife stopped calling it the blender. We named it the Halo. And I realised this might be more than a project.
the work
01
The cabinet
Fifteen rings of premium MDF, turned on a lathe, glued, sanded, hand-finished in matte. The cylindrical form removes the standing waves that plague rectangular speakers. Different colours, chosen to belong in real interiors.
Every cabinet carries small signs of the hands that shaped it. A finish that catches light slightly differently. A surface that feels different under your palm. Two Halos in the same colour will never be identical, and that's the point.
02
The drivers
Full-range drivers, because voices and acoustic instruments live in the middle of the frequency range. Most speakers split that signal with a crossover. The Halo doesn't. Vocals stay coherent. Guitars keep their body.
03
The tuning
Months of listening, measuring, adjusting. Not in a showroom, but in real rooms with real music. Tuned for the second listening session, and the third. For long evenings, not first impressions.
Every unit is tuned by ear, not by algorithm. Which means each one is checked against real music before it leaves the workshop. If it doesn't sound right, it doesn't ship.
today
Built by hand. In small batches.
Right now, every Halo is built by me, in a small workshop in Vught. Just a small batch at a time. I source the components, I cut and sand the MDF, I tune every unit, I sign every speaker.
Which means every Halo carries the fingerprint of the day it was made. A morning when the wood behaved a certain way. An afternoon when a colour came out exactly right. Small stories that only I know, but that live in the speaker you eventually take home.
It's slow work. That's the point.
next
A bigger workshop. The same craft.
Soon, we're moving to a larger workshop and bringing on a small team. The goal is to make more speakers, not faster, but with more hands doing the same careful work.
What won't change: every speaker still built by hand, still signed by its maker, still tuned by ear in a real room. New products, new editions, more colours, but the same standards that made the Halo what it is.
Which also means every Halo will still be its own thing. Small variations. Small stories. That's what "handmade" actually means, not a marketing word, but a promise that a person spent time with the object you now own.
We'd rather grow slowly and stay honest than scale quickly and lose what makes this worth making.