Quote Originally Posted by walpurgis View Post
£500 probably doesn't buy anything special in the way of speakers these days Shane. I'm thinking the sound quality I'm getting might cost more.

Omni-directional speaker are a rarity. I can only think of MBL and Duevel as current makers, but no doubt there may be others. I have built some before and they were well liked by listeners.
In my limited experience, omni-directional speakers are highly dependent on their surrounding environment. My only experience was with a Sonab design. I heard them sounding great at an audio and record dealer's premises, where they were located in a fairly small vaulted basement underneath the shop. Obviously the dealer had taken care both in choosing them and setting them up, but they worked really well.

The second time was when a friend of a friend bought (or was given) a pair of Sonab speakers. Try as we might, we could not get them to sound right in the owner's fairly large living room. I wouldn't say they sounded awful but I wouldn't have been content.

I should add that the Sonab designs used several tweeters, whereas Geoff's design uses one drive unit: that could well make a difference.