Hey guys.
I'd like to ask for your input as sort of a "feasibility check".
I have a very nice looking ceramic bluetooth speaker that sounds horrible.
What I was considering is anything between changing the driver to completely gutting it and giving it new internals.
I have attached some pictures for an idea of the current construction.
I assume the reason it sounds bad is just the limitations, like the sound going upwards, that it had to be ceramic, power consumption, unit production cost.
Maybe some of this could be exchanged for better sound..
Anyway, looking forward to hearing what you think.
Ceramic Speaker - Album on Imgur
I'd like to ask for your input as sort of a "feasibility check".
I have a very nice looking ceramic bluetooth speaker that sounds horrible.
What I was considering is anything between changing the driver to completely gutting it and giving it new internals.
I have attached some pictures for an idea of the current construction.
I assume the reason it sounds bad is just the limitations, like the sound going upwards, that it had to be ceramic, power consumption, unit production cost.
Maybe some of this could be exchanged for better sound..
Anyway, looking forward to hearing what you think.
Ceramic Speaker - Album on Imgur
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Ceramic drivers should sound better, I'm intrigued as to why you don't like the sound. Is it possible that it has a total lack of warmth and colouration that is sounds completely different ( rather than worse ) to what you've heard before?
What is the brand/name of it, I'm curious to find out more about it.
What is the brand/name of it, I'm curious to find out more about it.
Actually, it lacks clarity.
I don't know if it's distortion or bad response, but it sounds like a cheap £10 speaker.
Muffled is probably the best word.
I'd imagine the mistake was to put the internals in a plastic casing with the ceramic just being a "sleeve". So basically isolating the ceramic from the soundwaves in every way.
Maybe they chose this because they needed the electronics in there too and they made it ported because the driver points upwards and it needed to be somewhat omnidirectional and then it just ended up being a lump of plastic inside a ceramic container.
I don't know if it's distortion or bad response, but it sounds like a cheap £10 speaker.
Muffled is probably the best word.
I'd imagine the mistake was to put the internals in a plastic casing with the ceramic just being a "sleeve". So basically isolating the ceramic from the soundwaves in every way.
Maybe they chose this because they needed the electronics in there too and they made it ported because the driver points upwards and it needed to be somewhat omnidirectional and then it just ended up being a lump of plastic inside a ceramic container.
Sorry, I feel like I didn't completely answer your question...
A Google Home Hub has more clarity.
You can hear more instruments in songs with it, across genres and speech is more understandable with it.
That is my point of comparison, as I personally only use headphones.
But a dedicated speaker should preferably outperform an entry-level home assistant.
A Google Home Hub has more clarity.
You can hear more instruments in songs with it, across genres and speech is more understandable with it.
That is my point of comparison, as I personally only use headphones.
But a dedicated speaker should preferably outperform an entry-level home assistant.
There doesn't seem to be any sound deadening inside, you could try stuffing in some cotton wool and perhaps stick some blutac to the inside of the ceramic to stop any chance of it ringing. Beyond these simple mods it's difficult to give any more advice without knowing much more.
In there second last picture you can see this very coarse synthetic woolly material inside.
All contact surfaces are also padded with foam den black foam like the padding used to protect table tops from heavy equipment.
Yea it might be more a shot in the dark to try and do anything about it.
All contact surfaces are also padded with foam den black foam like the padding used to protect table tops from heavy equipment.
Yea it might be more a shot in the dark to try and do anything about it.
It could also be a limitation of the bluetooth chipset, it maybe limited to the standard bluetooth low bit rate audio codec. The user manual doesn't specify which audio codecs it supports. For better audio quality the speaker needs to support audio codecs such as Aptx, aac, Ldac.