The Roots

WaVeInFoRm · 09:35 PM

i am very curious to know what peoples first experiance "playing" wih speakers is.....

heres mine...
when i was 13 i got a pair of black chipboard speakers with 8inch drivers, and a single kef speaker.
my friend blew the woofer in the kef speaker

so i literaly chopped one of the boxes in half and screwed it to the other one and put the tweeter in the remaining tweeter hole

http://postimage.org/image/jua5ab97f/bc5a8d9d/

it had left channel treble and a right box with no seal that was too small, and the whole thing was full of holes but i loved it at the time,
i finished it with a handle made from more junk

nigelwright7557 · 17th March 2012, 10:31 PM

My first attempt at a speaker box was a 4 by 12 inch cabinet for a disco.
Luckily I realised quickly that it would be too big for the car.
So I split into 2 off 2 by 12inch speaker cabinets.
I used 50 watt Fane speakers from Maplin.
They were remarkably loud for 50 watt speakers and worked well in a disco application.

I used a Maplin 225WRMS bipolar amp kit with them.

Wavebourn · 11:31 PM

My first experiment with speaker was connecting bicycle headlight dynamo to the 4" speaker I took from dead radio. I could ride with sound, like motorcycle, no, it sounded like a truck!

I used to be quite curious and inventive kid. If I did not have something I wanted I always figured out how to make it, or at least imitate. May be because I was not strong enough to take it by force from other kids.

picowallspeaker · 17th March 2012, 11:55 PM

Dunno...whazzat ? A grill ? To protect from the dust..and whatever .
hey ! tweeter's broken ! No highs ...Hmmm too much volume , and distortion .
Hey ! Foam's rotten ! Why ? Some glue ? don't work !
maybe new cones ...what ? 4 Ω .ok , gimme 4Ω and ...tweeters !! Domes ...silk ,yes !! And...what's this ? shiny copper , capacitors ..probably it splits the band . And those midrange AHHHhhhhh fallen on the front , one broken .
Why aren't available those cute black screws ? I want'em !!
Hmmm , this sounds nice . This cheap poly cap is far better than this cheap NP,
in this position .

11th March 2012, 09:29 PM	#1
WaVeInFoRm diyAudio Member Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: England	The Roots i am very curious to know what peoples first experiance "playing" wih speakers is..... heres mine... when i was 13 i got a pair of black chipboard speakers with 8inch drivers, and a single kef speaker. my friend blew the woofer in the kef speaker so i literaly chopped one of the boxes in half and screwed it to the other one and put the tweeter in the remaining tweeter hole http://postimage.org/image/jua5ab97f/bc5a8d9d/ it had left channel treble and a right box with no seal that was too small, and the whole thing was full of holes but i loved it at the time, i finished it with a handle made from more junk Last edited by WaVeInFoRm; 11th March 2012 at 09:35 PM.

17th March 2012, 10:31 PM	#2
nigelwright7557 diyAudio Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Carlisle, England	My first attempt at a speaker box was a 4 by 12 inch cabinet for a disco. Luckily I realised quickly that it would be too big for the car. So I split into 2 off 2 by 12inch speaker cabinets. I used 50 watt Fane speakers from Maplin. They were remarkably loud for 50 watt speakers and worked well in a disco application. I used a Maplin 225WRMS bipolar amp kit with them. __________________ http://www.murtonpikesystems.co.uk PCBCAD50 pcb design software.

17th March 2012, 11:28 PM	#3
Wavebourn diyAudio Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Pleasant Hill, CA	My first experiment with speaker was connecting bicycle headlight dynamo to the 4" speaker I took from dead radio. I could ride with sound, like motorcycle, no, it sounded like a truck! I used to be quite curious and inventive kid. If I did not have something I wanted I always figured out how to make it, or at least imitate. May be because I was not strong enough to take it by force from other kids. __________________ If I disappear suddenly, that means I finally created a time machine and pushed wrong button that brought me to Stalin's Russia. In any experiment any result is the result. Even if it is negative. Last edited by Wavebourn; 17th March 2012 at 11:31 PM.

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17th March 2012, 11:55 PM	#4
picowallspeaker diyAudio Member Join Date: Apr 2007	Dunno...whazzat ? A grill ? To protect from the dust..and whatever . hey ! tweeter's broken ! No highs ...Hmmm too much volume , and distortion . Hey ! Foam's rotten ! Why ? Some glue ? don't work ! maybe new cones ...what ? 4 Ω .ok , gimme 4Ω and ...tweeters !! Domes ...silk ,yes !! And...what's this ? shiny copper , capacitors ..probably it splits the band . And those midrange AHHHhhhhh fallen on the front , one broken . Why aren't available those cute black screws ? I want'em !! Hmmm , this sounds nice . This cheap poly cap is far better than this cheap NP, in this position .

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