1) 2 Pi - cabs done
2) 7 Pi - tweeter and midhorn cabs done
3) SV811 amp - years behind on this one
4) Bottlehead SEX amp - first smoke test bad
5) 6V6 guitar amp
6) 3 Pi subs - cabs done
7) Rebuid Guivevere, a Group Project preamp

I'm working on two big basshorns. I really need to finish work on the matching mid/tops, but I've had other stuff stay in front of it. The first production version of one of my basshorns kept everyone in my world busy last summer, then the wood tweeter kept us busy through the fall and winter. This summer, we ironed out a revision to the basshorn to perfect it, making it more like the original prototype. Now we're putting the finishing strokes on the plans for it, and we'll build and test it this fall and winter. A smaller version is in the works too, basically just the new version prodution model cut in half, so work on both models is happening simultaneously.

I'm also working on figuring out what characteristics a speaker should have to sound good in a very small room, as I think there's a market for such. The LS-3/5a is sort of the benchmark to be beaten in this regard, and I think it can be beaten soundly by using prosound drivers - assuming a somewhat larger box can be tolerated. This may or may not end up being the same speaker as the stand-mount mentioned above; it depends on what characteristics my investigation highlights.

In the immediate future I'll be working on a fairly large hornspeaker (to make its debut at RMAF) that will have somewhat unorthodox radiation pattern characteristics for a high efficiency design. I'll post details over on my forum after the show - assuming I get 'em done in time.

Finally, if everything else gets built, I want to do a guitar speaker. I've heard a lot of bad-sounding musical instrument speakers, and maybe there are guitarists who would pay a premium for a speaker that made them sound really good.

Duke

So using something like a EV 12L or a JBL E120 for an acoustical or "natural sounding" insturment should work out pretty good since there to "clean sounding" of a speaker as electric guitarists have said.

Just look at how many different speakers Eminence makes just for there guitar line alone.

Next will be the 2pi towers. They were coupled with Jef Larson's 2A3 amp at the Dallas show and made a wonderful combo.

Jef's 2A3 is currently powering the Hawthorne's and it is a pretty nice combo, too.

I was further intrigued when I read the designer owns a pair of Selah Audio line arrays and has said this about how they compare: "My line arrays have been the most detailed speakers I‘ve ever heard until now. The Statements now are my new standard".

The parts have all arrived and I've cut all the panels and routed the driver cutouts and recesses on the front baffles. But I doubt these can be called my "winter project" since the daily high temps in Houston will still be in the 90's when they are completed.

• Jim Holtz's "Statements"

Finish my seemingly never-to-end Darling amp project--need opt's and a chassis.
Millett Hybrid Max headphone amp
Meier Corda Cross 1 xfeed
CK2III headphone amp
Hybrid headphone amp prototyping--sorry, sworn to secrecy!!
ART arrays
Possible 6em7 SE or PP amp.
Possible Tubelab Simple SE EL34 amp.

My married daughter just moved to Asheville. I'll be able to visit her every weekend with a gift-wrapped EPT kit until they finally get the message. I WANT GRANDKIDS!

Don't think I'll be inhaling solder or wood fumes anytime soon.

I think that, if I don't build the Statements, I will work out a simmilar design using paper mids (Seas MCA15RCY possibly) and a silk dome tweeter. My wife may have other plans however, as she loved Danny's Alpha LS's and is leaning towards my building the LS-6 or LS-9 project.

Keep us posted on the progress.

Bill