Premium speaker cabinets used to come from Denmark. Today some of the geometrically most complex ones come from China. This includes the minimum-spine designs from Denmark's Raidho and Børresen brands which add concave slanted rear channels, protruding port pipes and curved side walls. One look at them tells us that the average woodshop specialized in kitchen cabinets would be at an utter loss to produce them. But Denmark's most famous speaker-based cabinet shop closed years ago and many of its clients had to look elsewhere to procure their advanced enclosures. Some have gone to Poland. Looking at Pylon Audio's Amethyst Gamma bowing in a few days at the Munich HighEnd show to follow up last year's bigger Amethyst, we can appreciate why. If that's the quality of cabinetry one can source in Poland these days, dealing with the slow boat from China might no longer be as attractive if one is a EU-based speaker house? As always, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But I for one give this design two enthusiastic thumbs up for its elegant styling. Hot dang. I count a concave narrowing baffle, a convex narrowing rear, curvy cheeks and a slanted top all miles removed from my dad's rectangular Dynaudio boxes.
