The goal was to construct a simple tower speaker to replace my small 5 1/4" Advent speaker mounted on a pedestal. After listening to many speakers from the price range of $500 to $2000 each I couldn't find one that I liked the sound of. What I was looking for is a tower speaker with crisp highs, bright mids, and bass to fill in where my subwoofer left off.

I started off looking at the PE 5-1/4" Dayton that a friend has in his home theater because I liked the sound he achieved. Then he showed me the Dayton 5-1/4" aluminum drivers and I thought that they would look nice in a tower. Yes I was concerned how they would sound but I decided just to go for it.