Design and Programming

Every cabinet we build starts with the client’s engineering drawing. We do not originate the acoustic design; that belongs to the client. What we do is read the drawing closely, question anything that will not build cleanly, and resolve it with the client’s design team before any material is committed. Our own design engineering experience is there to catch the problems that only show up on the workshop floor, not to take the drawing away from the people who own it.

Every cabinet design has its own CNC programme, written bespoke from the client’s engineering drawings or developed in collaboration with their design team. The programme defines every cut, every route, every pocket, every rebate, and every hole. Nothing is left to the operator’s interpretation. The programme is the single source of truth for the entire production run, and it is verified against the original specification before a single sheet is loaded onto the machine bed.

Writing a CNC programme for a speaker cabinet is not the same as programming a standard box. Cabinet geometry involves compound angles, internal bracing positions that must align precisely with driver mounting points, port dimensions that affect acoustic tuning, and panel thicknesses that interact with the adhesive and coating systems downstream. Every one of these variables is considered during programming, not discovered during assembly.

Test cuts are run on every new programme before production begins. Dimensions are measured, edge quality is inspected, and panel fit is confirmed by dry-assembling a test unit. If anything is out of specification, the programme is adjusted and retested. Production does not begin until the test unit confirms that every tolerance is being held.

This stage is invisible in the finished cabinet. Nobody looks at a speaker enclosure and thinks about the CNC programme that defined it. But every dimension, every joint, and every acoustic property of that cabinet was decided here, before the first production cut was made.

Only once the programme is proven do we turn to the material it will cut. Every sheet is then sourced and graded to the specification set here, which is where the next stage begins.