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Richard's DIY Brik centre speaker is so unusual that I had to look twice to see it was not a camera warp~! Check out the detailed photos of the one-of-a-kind DIY Briks center channel in making. ( just mouse over the coloured dots above ) He's a long time Brik owner since '83 and own two beautiful systems. For pure music, a simple Naim 500 kit is hard to beat. Note that he's now running FIVE DMS in his cinema room! With the newest updates his Briks are getting better and better it seems.

Richard comments:"...I owned my first set of briks since 1983, which I sold in 2005 when I brought the 1990 pair for £400.00 on e-bay a bargain. The 1987 cinema units I have owned about two years.

In our cinema we have DVD5, AV2, NAP200, NAP250 and NAP145 in too three 1987 briks, the centre one I striped and rebuilt to fit under screen, this work well for cinema use with all the drivers forward facing. I have left the grill off so you can see the driver layout. I now have a spare barik. The rear speakers are a pair of Linn AV5140, may replace with briks one day. 

The original Linn construction is that the isobarik chamber was constructed by as separate unit so that was left intact and fitted as such. The midrange chambers are orange 6" sewage pipe with car under-seal painted inside and out, the same stuff painted on the B139 chassis. The rear plate of the mid chambers is 3/4" ply faced with Formica with metal studs clamping it to the front panel. The cabinet is 3/4'' MDF with 1" x 1" bracing, filled with wool. All very simple but it worked. " 

System updates:
2013-April

• Original KEF 139 bass drivers are now replaced with Linn Keltik drivers for his pure 2-ch system.
  Richard comments: This has given a faster base without changing the Isobarik sound."

2012-December

• CD555 is replaced by NDS/555DRPS x2
  
• Lounge Briks get the recap on their Xovers as well as tweeters are replaced by Scanspeak D2905/9700 and the Midrange drivers are now Monacor SPH-135EP.
• Cinema System gets also the updates with NaimNAP500 for front main from his previous NAP200. KEF sub woofer is also added for fun.
  

2010-May

• The Linn AV5140 used for rear channle in a home cinema system has been replaced with a pair of Briks.

Richard comments: ..."I had a long talk with Terry at Wilmslow Audio who has been in the business over 30 years, we spoke about my love of barik's and that i wanted to improve the sound but not change the caricature. So they were the units he suggested, they are not a direct replacement as they are a little larger, I was able to make them fit using a large craft knife to carve out the MDF. I asked Terry about crossovers and his advice was that no changes were needed. Since carrying out the work Naim visited my house with 555ps DR unit for me to try and said he was surprised as they were the best Barik's he had ever heard!!."

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