I have one of these speakers in my collection but can't find much information about it, only people selling the manual on eBay. Does anyone know the specs for it or what the pot on the back is for? Thanks.
Sorry, can't recall ever being exposed to any small Heathkit speakers 🙁; I assume it's for tweeter volume/shelving to 'taste'.
The pot was either going bad or getting noisy so I opened up the speaker and there is only a single driver rated for 3 watts and the pot is actually an l-pad. The pot looks clean inside but seems to be making bad contact along its travel.
I wonder if they ever made a rain-sounds type of clock that can be set to a specific time.
The gentle rain sound for sleeping, and a wake-up alarm that sounds like increasingly loud thunder.
Back in the 1970's, Soundesign made a fully-featured am/fm digital clock radio that when set for radio wake-up alarm, it would start the radio at a low volume, and over several minutes ramp up the volume to get you out of bed.
Yes, but that Soundesign clock radio sold for $49.95 in the 70's....
Bose?...... such a ripoff.
Yeah, a now long gone buddy was a B0$3 aficionado, paying $800 IIRC to an authorized door-to-door salesman when it came out.
The thing is, if you've ever had the chance to open up any of those Bose radios, it's really nothing special.
I had several left in my shop from customers, who refused to pay Bose the rediculous repair fees they wanted.
Bose made them so that they're going to require THEM ONLY to do repairs. (same deal as the B&O equipment)
I opened them up, and saw first hand what the "secret" was about them, and honestly, I was not impressed.
Typical chinese assembly, some sound-enhancement circuitry, certainly not warranting their selling price.
But people buy them anyway.
Not very interesting at the moment. This is veering a bit offtopic but the board is a Sipeed Lichee RV. It's based on the RISCV architecture so the board schematics and even Verilog code for the cpu is available. The dock board is really handy because it has a little built in 3 watt amplifier. It's not very fast but has plenty of power to play an mp3. This is my test setup for getting the pushbutton switch working with the scripts. I'm terrible at programming so it's taken a full day to get the button to call the program that plays an mp3 on loop for a set time. Pressing the button again kills the program. This project could have been done with better supported hardware but I thought the idea of using a new RISCV board intriguing. The scripts are finally working so later on I need to cut a small aluminum plate to attach the pushbutton switch. The board will mount inside.
