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Loudspeakers / USA

PHYSM Industrial

PHYSM Industrial designs loudspeakers and sound systems. Its social posts document the EME1 speaker and development work on its passive contour circuit.

Design & approach

Based in California’s East Bay, PHYSM builds custom hi-fi loudspeakers and works with SYMU Systems on installation, system design and tuning. The EME1 illustrates its attention to the whole enclosure: a single full-range driver, double-baffled birch cabinet and subsequent passive contour refinement. Its own development posts distinguish the design process from generic room imagery.

Maker background & design sources ↗

From the maker’s world.

Products, process and directly attributed installations.

Photos and video from the original publisher.

Inside the first EME1

Designer Jonathan James Carr introduces PHYSM’s single-driver EME1, describing its magnesium-alloy driver and double-baffled birch cabinet.

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Photos and video from the original publisher.

Refining the EME1 response

PHYSM explains the passive contour circuit developed through measurement and listening. Performance figures in the post are the maker’s own claims.

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Hear it in the rooms.

Equipment, commissions and collaborations.

San Francisco / United States

Hedge Coffee ↗

Custom installation

Hedge Coffee lists PHYSM Industrial in its custom build / install setup. Individual component models are not specified in the available record.

Inside the system

Hedge’s folded-horn loudspeaker is a Klipsch La Scala, with its exact generation unspecified. The photographed sign credits SYMU Systems and PHYSM Industrial for the installation, while visit photographs also show Ayre electronics, Technics-family decks and a rotary mixer. The other component variants remain unconfirmed.

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Further reading