Where do I start? The BF2 series of speakers was a direct follow up of the completion of the first set of BF1 speakers. The original thought for this design was to scale down the BF1 speaker to a more condensed form. This felt like a heavy constraint at the time due to my artistic nature pushing me to flesh out avant-garde audio enclosure designs. I Battled with this constraint for many weeks, With me coming to the conclusion that a small format, well executed speaker enclosure would allow more people to have access to the pure metal aesthetic I'm offering. The initial sketches of these small format designs came about well before any serious thought was involved. I find sketching constantly without any purposeful direction allows total freedom, this requires a child like approach to "Play". These drawings are quite often crude looking and show no hope of being brought into reality. Variations of tapered forms similar to the TF1 speakers were dominant at the start but with my recent experience of simple rectangle forms already in motion I felt it was necessary to investigate this format of enclosure design. Although rectilinear shapes seem simple from first glance they can be incredibly difficult to proportion well. The driver selection has a big influence on the overall size as this can alter how the driver responds to the different volumes of air within a particular enclosure. The driver selection was made easy with me wanting to explore the smaller drivers in the "Mark-audio" range. This was due to my previous experience using the "Alpair 12p" in the BF1 speaker design. The CHR-90 & CHP-90 were the drivers selected due to it being suitable for the enclosure volume and its quality build profile. 3D modelling the first vertical enclosure was a quick process, with the tedious task of deciding where to place the circular driver on the front baffle. I was constantly shifting the driver location around before arriving with the proportions on the front baffle plane. While staring at the vertical enclosure for many minutes it struck me to rotate this same enclosure to visualise a horizontal enclosure variant. I feel this lowered stance would sit well either side of a low credenza furniture piece. Minor modifications to the horizontal enclosure had to be made to ensure binding post and bass reflex port locations were correct. Material & parts were ordered the following week with the first two enclosure prototypes being built only 4x weeks after the initial 3D design process. I felt slightly uncomfortable when building the first prototype enclosure's, this feeling is brought about due to the possibility of myself making errors in the design or build execution. Luckily there were only slight alterations to be made to the 3D files for the actual production units. The first two sets of speakers were now completely metal finished and ready for the clear powder coating to be applied around 6x weeks after the initial 3D modelling process started.