Good evening, I wanted to share my silly project about making two speakers from stuff I had lying around / was gifted to me
All the information relative to this are well written and illustrated on my blog https://www.mimifactory.com/, otherwise this post would've become too long.
A friend gifted me some old car speakers, instead of throwing them away. Plus I got some broken panasonic speakers that I had laying around for a while.
It was quite simple taking the plastic cover away, but then i realized there was no hole for the tweeter and there were two big open slots, that I had to cover if I wanted to make an enclosed loudspeaker.
I drilled a hole with a hole saw but it was too big so I had to 3D print a gasket lol
And make two wood pieces by hand to fill the two big slots.
Capacitor in series with the small speaker = high pass filter kinda
Disconnected central coil from second speaker otherwise I had too many highs
Glued everything, filled with silicone, covered the outer silver parts with some wood grain texture adhesive, and then made a front cover mesh from unused wood and old cloth.
I am currently using them with the subwoofer unit of a LM1875 based 2.1 sound system that had its satellites missing.
I wouldn’t call this Hi-Fi, but it’s pleasant enough to allow me to not always use my headphones and have my hair always messy xD
Great for youtube, videocalls, etc. Basically free as well
All the information relative to this are well written and illustrated on my blog https://www.mimifactory.com/, otherwise this post would've become too long.
A friend gifted me some old car speakers, instead of throwing them away. Plus I got some broken panasonic speakers that I had laying around for a while.
It was quite simple taking the plastic cover away, but then i realized there was no hole for the tweeter and there were two big open slots, that I had to cover if I wanted to make an enclosed loudspeaker.
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And make two wood pieces by hand to fill the two big slots.
Capacitor in series with the small speaker = high pass filter kinda
Disconnected central coil from second speaker otherwise I had too many highs
Glued everything, filled with silicone, covered the outer silver parts with some wood grain texture adhesive, and then made a front cover mesh from unused wood and old cloth.
I wouldn’t call this Hi-Fi, but it’s pleasant enough to allow me to not always use my headphones and have my hair always messy xD
Great for youtube, videocalls, etc. Basically free as well
What happened to the Panasonic speakers? The tweeters from that set should provide better highs than a car coaxial speaker.
Trashed. Both coils of woofer and tweeter sadly were burned to a crisp, I opened them up to check.
It's ok though. Highs are good, thanks for the concern.
It's ok though. Highs are good, thanks for the concern.
Only other things I'd suggest for quick and easy improvement would be placing a rigid cup chamber over/behind the coaxial4" on the inside lightly stuffed with damping, adding internal bracing, and stuffing the cabinets with damping material.
As is, you saved something and made something. I applaud your efforts!
As is, you saved something and made something. I applaud your efforts!