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Surround Sound on a budget
Adaption of cheap Genius stereo speaker sets for multispeaker prototyping:
I've done quite an amount of prototyping using components from cheap speaker
systems - some are a little odd and some whimsical - but why not? Here are a few pics...
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| First of all the 'monitors' I chopped up for parts: the Genius SP-S110 | ...... and the now discontinued Genius SP-Q06S (a pity - the boxes were bigger and made nice project boxes complete with amp and speaker driver for circuit bends). Both models claim 100 Watts PMPO. Extremely unlikely :--) |
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| 4 channel 'near field' setup using Genius speaker drivers. The idea here is to find a way to use low powered speakers to mockup up surround setups. Output low so.... bring the speaker closer! Also might make sense for a small spaces. |
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| Stand alone stereo amps - speaker driver is removed and speaker connection cables from board are soldered to speaker connectors. |
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| Speaker driver connectors. Speaker flex has crocodile connectors on speaker end (not shown here). |
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| Input cable is cut short and connected to rca connectors. |
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| My custom 5.1 amplifier! - 3 x Stereo Genius amps and power supplies built into a lunch box. Just suitable for prototyping - outputs are not exactly matched - these are not high end amps. The internal wiring in these amps must have the world's lowest strand count! Just a couple of copper filaments in each cable. Disconnect one strand and you get a noticeable db drop! Possibly explains the non matched outputs (although there are likely to be a number of other reasons!). |
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| Inside.... |
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Cardboard tube as resonator. The tube provides a way of 'shaping' |
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| A close up showing crocodile connectors and holes drilled in tube (just to the right of the speaker) to 'tune' the tube. |
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| And some of those tubes in action as part of Drawing Machine. | |