SPL Question

[stochastic]

I've seen those things for sale in lots of ~50 on ebay for $25. No real specs listed with them at the time but I seem to recall them being dell computer speakers - cheap ones at that.

I asked myself if I could ever recall enjoying the sound from a dell computer (but wanting it louder). My conclusion was that they're probably not worth the money if dell didn't even want them all.

Maybe the ones you've found are different.

 

[OffGridKindaGuy]

" My conclusion was that they're probably not worth the money if dell didn't even want them all."

LOL.. Now that's funny stuff..

The ones I found didn't have specific SPL information. I kinda "Guessed " by finding another driver ~ the same size. Midnight Baseball is fun! Found some real jewels that way a few times..

As Frank Zappa said..

"Without Deviation, (From the Norm) Progress is not Possible"

 

[stochastic]

Quite right, for $25 one can give it a try and see.

I've personally found that in general, full rangers below $10msrp tend to have bumpier and bumpier frequency response the cheaper you go. But there's likely some exceptions to this rule of thumb.

 

[chris661]

Ah, but with the headroom of 10s of drivers, you can afford to throw quite a lot of EQ around if you choose and level up the response somewhat. Tradeoffs, tradeoffs...

Chris

 

[OffGridKindaGuy]

Well.. 16 arrived today. Got 4 of 'um out and started "Playing" with them..

Wasn't impressed at first. Sounded like a plastic box! (No internal damping material, I'm sure) Wrapped the outside of each one of them in some cloth and stuffed a little pinch of cotton batting into the ports to stop some of the internal crap from gittin' out. Big difference!

Grindin' some Alvin Lee through 'um now. More to come..

 

[EddieT]

On the subject of dell computer speakers I would like to open a couple I have from an old Inspiron to see if I might try to use them in better boxes. I have tried gently prying here and there with nothing popping loose. I don't want to destroy them as they might be used by someone else as is. Has anyone successfully popped any of these?