COPPICE AUDIO BRING HARDWOOD SPEAKERS TO NWAS 2022
Ryan and Mal started Coppice Audio around three years ago initially as a project to use a technique called Arborsculpture to grow speaker stands using saplings which are shaped and grafted into specific shapes at their woodland in Malvern.
COPPICE AUDIO
Mal from Coppice Audio told us: “we quickly realised that we would need our own speaker to fit on our bespoke stands and that’s when Coppice Audio was born, my colleague Ryan is a keen music producer with a good ear and it took a couple of years working with some very talented people before we had a speaker that he was happy with which is the current version of the X1, by this point designing and building speakers had taken over our primary mission to grow some stands and we followed up with the X2 which is a floor-standing version of the X1”.
SOLID HARDWOOD
Ryan and Mal are carpenters and joiners by trade and wanted to use real solid hardwoods instead of MDF which they told us in itself presented a few issues to overcome, with movement and cabinet resonances being the main ones.
Coppice Audio has a standard range of products but as all of their products are hand made in Malvern they can very easily customise to suit individual tastes including a full engraving service in 3D relief or with a laser and of course can build one-off bespoke items from the ground up, Mal says: “if it is made from wood we can build it!”.
NORTH WEST AUDIO SHOW 2022
After two years of trying different techniques, Coppice were happy with their products and are still working on characterising the sounds of different hardwoods. Coppice will be launching a lot of new products at the show, and they are putting together a wood themed room to show their speciality in bespoke audio carpentry.
Coppice Audio will introduce the X3 flagship floorstanding speaker at the show, the pair that they will be demonstrating is bringing is made from spalted Beech that was felled in Queens Park, London.