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  1. J

    Give it a go! Subwoofer

    I'm a newbie to making anything from wood and so I was really pleased how this turned out. The main intention of this post is to encourage others and to leave a record of what I did. Firstly I watched lots of others on yt doing same and felt envy and inadequacy. I decided to build one of...
  2. Sitandlisten

    Vintage homemade speakers

    Hey folks! I just picked up these cool vintage homemade speakers off Kijiji. I have no idea what's inside, but they're super heavy and handsome as hell. My question to you all is how the heck do I hook these up? They each have 4 speaker wire terminals in the back - which are mysteriously...
  3. hifijohn

    another mic design

    Yes another on of my unique mic designs, the element is a 3" driver from a cheap boom box with a 6.3 volt transformer wired backwards to step the output up. https://imgur.com/a/0XmXsyz
  4. hifijohn

    black and gold mic

    Another unique mic design, the element is a 2.5" speaker from a small boombox I found.the sound isnt too bad and good after some EQing. https://imgur.com/a/W7FJUbw
  5. D

    Can anybody in around NE Ohio put this together for me ?

    Here is what i have..A NOS Denon Plinth and motor, home made tone arm board and a home made tone arm. Since some of it is home made i do not have spindle to pivot specs. I need someone to set the tone arm pivot to spindle distance, mount arm to the board, mount my cart and stylus to arm, set...
  6. Andre Garcia

    Home made headshell

    hi to all, Finally I finished another headshell. This one is made in brazillian cherry wood. With a homemade 4 pin connector. The pins are sterling silver soldered to the lead. The main idea was create a light headshell for the heavy Empire cart. The lead should be shorted soon, are too long.
  7. T

    Should I use my KEF T27 SP1032?

    I bought a bunch of speakers from a guy, and among them were these super heavy, but not super large speakers he threw in because he didn't know what they were, and believed they were homemade. They are two ways, with one 8 inch mid/woofer and a tweeter. I pulled the woofer, it is a KEF SP1014...
  8. RSMRecording

    Need Help Identifying Unknown Power Amp

    Hello, This is my first post in this particular section on AK, I have been member since 2015. I have an old power amp kit or homemade unit and I don't have any information regarding its origin. I searched in google for an 1 hour today trying to find a kit manual or vintage AD. I thought...
  9. Cody AOC

    What does it take to build 3 way speakers?

    To begin this it's not audiophile grade but I wanted to know if I used two 12" or 15" car subwoofers per box and used some good sounding mid range speakers and tweeters with maybe similar sensitivity and used 2 midrange speakers and 2 tweeters per box i'm not sure I just want to copycat the...
  10. Myceliumvoic

    Speakers Made from Mushrooms

    I have been experimenting with mycelium (the vegetative part of a mushroom) to make awesome sounding speaker enclosures. Check out more pictures on my website. www.myceliumvoice.com
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