Because I'm always on a budget, I've found that timber from Bunnings and 4mm perspex are cheap ways to make and enhance my personal audio projects.

 

Perspex was bent with a high resistance hot wire from Jaycar mounted on top of a hinged chip board. It's powered by a battery charger but a  car battery would be more effective. It was slow, but it did the job.

 

My current 2024 integrated StereoCoffee/Hypex uses a beautifully engineered, heavy aluminium enclosure, obtainable from Douk on Bay for under $200 and delivered in a couple of days.

 

The perspex panel was added to provide WAF by making it less shiny and noticeable. It is held in place by the push button. 

 

 

These early StereoCoffee enclosures cost around  $10 each for A4 4mm cut sheets bought from Bay.

  

 

The Pine and Tassie Oak enclosures cost under $10 each to make plus some perspex offcuts. (if you don't count tools 😉)

 

The switched attenuator enclosure with mitred sides was originally a cheap bamboo cutting board from Kmart before I discovered the benefits of LDR attenuators..

 

My Holton power amp uses a 600mm sheet of perspex on top of the front plate which I had damaged. The corners were partly drilled and sit on top of the front plate bolts position it. The power switch keeps it attached to the front plate.

 

The DIY ESLs from ER Audio were mounted between 12mm perspex supports.

 

Have fun. I did.

 

Cheers, Rob

Nice designs and work, congrats.

Thanks Andrew.

 

Desperation is the mother of invention! Or something like that.

 

Cheers, Rob

Well I think desperation can lead to some bad outcomes but these all look very stylish due to your good design and innovative use of economic materials.

Nice work.

 

Fantastic efforts! 

Hi Rob,

 

I have made my own speaker boxes, cables etc. for around 40 years, but you have given me inspiration to modify my passive preamp appropriately into a different case. 

 

Your work with perspex reminds me of when I worked with it 50 years ago making machine guards by hand.

 

Fantastic work, many kudos! 😊😊

 

Cheers Mark