Build and Listen

Loudspeakers, Turntables and Components

The Build and Listen audio shop in the Netherlands.
We build loudspeakers with several designs from Troels Gravesen, KLang und Ton und Hobby Hifi.
We renovate Lenco's and Thorens turntables.
We organize workshops for building loudspeakers and renovating your Lenco L75/L78 or Thorens TD160.

In addition, we sell a selected set of amplifiers, DACs, streamers and phono amplifiers from a limited number of brands. The brands we have chosen are niche brands for which marketing is not the primary expenditure. These brands invest primarily in good audio products. These are PS Audio, Kleio, Spec, Lejonklou, Purify, Hypex and Lehmann.

Loudspeakers

We are developing and building loudspeakers in MDF and plywood. We are using designs from Troels Gravesen, Klang und Ton and Hobby Hifi. In the last year, our designs have become increasingly our own, with several high-end driver combinations from Scan Speak, Morel, Accuton, Mundorf, and Seas.

This newly developed small floor-standing loudspeaker is the Inn II, based on an earlier design by the Lautsprechershop Klang und Ton (February/March 2023). In the original design, the tweeter was an Audaphon AMT 1i from the Lautsprecher shop. We have chosen the standard MundorfAMT25CS2.1-R. The specs of this tweeter are a little bit different. This new loudspeaker has an impressive soundstage with the Mundorf AMT tweeter.

This is a veryy nice design. Its transparant, very open and with a huge soundstage. Its the best soundstage we have build. Its presentation is far outside the loudspeakers self.
Very neutral and detailed. Bass is good but not the best, buts its a smal floorstandig loudspeaker.

Turntables

A collection of renovated Thorens and Lenco turntables.
The Lenco L75 idler wheel turntable is from 1977. Still a great turntable with a new plinth, arm wiring and cartridge. It sounds superb.

Audio

We are selling a selection of audio components in combination with our loudspeakers and turntables. The price-quality is an important criterion in our selection. Mostly European brands, except for PS Audio from the States and the Spec from Japan.