Wooden amp-box.

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This summer me and the kids built a little ghettoblaster I was thinking of bringing to the Norbergfestival. Sadly though I never brought it to the festival, since in it’s current state doesn’t produce enough volume for outdoor-listening (in hi-fi atleast)

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What we did was basically:
* Get a few planks to build the shell.
* Use magnets for the door.
* Using a LOT of glue to isolate the speaker boxes
* Adding foam behind the speakers before sealing of (even more glue)

Here is a little video of when we where  WIP.

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For amplification we first used some 0.5w RubyAmps that are great for smaller amplification projects, unfortunately they where not powerful enough to drive the speaker-elements. So I went and bought a kit from 41hz. 41hz stuff really really rule. To bad I accidentally fired the amplification IC on it when I was putting it inside the box. I orderd a replacement IC pretty fast, but in the mean-time I used two 1w amps I had for some other project. I have made one halfheartedly try to replace the IC on the circuitboard, but I really need to drill the old one away. Perhaps I’ll fix that one day.

For now it is awesome to have it as amp to my computer and or when I work outside. It’s stylish don’t you think?

oh yeah, it’s only 4.6kg

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