Pioneering audio guru Gilbert Briggs said: "Loudspeakers are somewhat like boxers. In general, a good big one will always beat a good little one." Sixty years down the line, I am convinced that nothing has changed. If you have any doubts about this, I invite you to bring your highest end nearfield monitors to one of the rooms in which I have installed custom Main Monitors, and do an A/B comparison.     

There are very good big speakers out there. I have heard some of them in great sounding rooms and they are spine-tinglingly good. But here's the thing... The smallest commercially available Main Monitoring System will set you back upwards of twelve lac rupees... This is not so much because they are ten times more expensive to build than good nearfields... it is merely because they are far more expensive to transport and store, at many stages over the course of the supply chain. 

I got interested in building big loudspeakers when I realized that the full potential of the Control Rooms that I build can only be realized when large speakers are putting out life-size sounds. Meanwhile, many of my clients cannot afford to pay ten to forty lac rupees on a pair of loudspeakers. So I turned to the DIY community and found it to be very interesting. I think that several designs that have evolved out of there are absolutely well suited to perform the duties of Main Monitors, in studios. They can be built at less than a fourth of the cost of equally robust commercially available Main Monitors, and luckily for us in India, many of the key components are available locally, at prices that are surprisingly inexpensive.

I never profit from the designs of the DIY community - and give credit wherever it is due. I merely choose which open source design matches best with the room I am building. My charges for building a studio remain identical, whether or not my team builds the loudspeakers.