First Halo speakers ship August 2026. Limited to 75 units.

George Vanadium workshop in Vught — handmade speaker construction

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. Six colours, chosen to belong in real interiors.

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.

the honest answer

Why €1,295

Lifestyle speakers in this price range often spend more on marketing than on what makes the music. We took the opposite approach. World-class drivers. Dense MDF. Months of tuning. A finish you can live with for a decade. The price is what it costs to make this honestly.

Every unit is signed, ships in 2–5 days when in stock, and comes with a 30-day home trial.

today

Built by hand. In small batches.

Right now, every Halo is built by me, in a small workshop in Vught. Around 75–100 speakers in the current batch. I source the components, I cut and sand the MDF, I tune every unit, I sign every speaker.

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.

We'd rather grow slowly and stay honest than scale quickly and lose what makes this worth making.

See the Halo