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INSIDE TIMBERWORX, THE SPEAKER-BUILDING COMPANY YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF

Never heard of Timberworx? We aren’t surprised. It isn’t a brand you will see at a dealer and it doesn’t sell products online; and yet a surprising number of speakers that you probably know and love have passed through its doors.

Timberworx is a specialist speaker cabinet maker based in Sheffield in South Yorkshire. It has been under Spendor’s ownership over the past six years and, as well as building enclosures for Spendor speakers, it also makes them for the likes of ProAc, Neat, KEF, Linn and Mission, among others.

There are some big names among those ‘others’, but they would prefer that customers didn’t know that the building of their cabinets is outsourced to a third party,

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