Several have asked me to provide some info on the Malbec speakers seen and heard at DIY Iowa 2010. So.... here it goes.

The Malbecs are a very high quality 3-way conceived and built as an effort to equal the overall performance of my 2008 Mid Class winners, the TzuJans, and exceed them in bass performance and top end quality.

The development and build was the quickest I have ever done. Initial thinking began about the last week if August, and build was finalized 10/13. ...

Concept and General Description.

The TzuJan speakers are a 3-way MLTL floor stander with a footprint smaller than most speaker stands and which delivers full, coherent, and most satisfying sound.

Tzu Jan is a Chinese term meaning "naturalness", "spontaneity", "self-so", "that which simply is", or "that which is so of itself" - depending on the source. I don't speak the language, but I think the meaning captures the ...