{"id":1540,"date":"2014-03-29T20:13:30","date_gmt":"2014-03-30T03:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/?p=1540"},"modified":"2014-03-29T20:13:30","modified_gmt":"2014-03-30T03:13:30","slug":"speaker-building-lite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/29\/speaker-building-lite\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker building lite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve ticked one more thing off my list of nerdy things I\u2019ve been wanting to try: building speakers. Admittedly, I didn\u2019t do the full building experience this time, choosing instead to start with an existing set of speaker cabinets and upgrading them. It was a great way to start learning about the hobby.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1543\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1543\" style=\"width: 168px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/WP_20140326_014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1543 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/WP_20140326_014-168x300.jpg\" alt=\"blown speaker\" width=\"168\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1543\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Old speaker, new home<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This project moved from the &#8220;someday&#8221; to &#8220;now&#8221; project list when Paula and I came across a pair of retro-looking bookshelf speakers at Goodwill. The speakers weren\u2019t high quality and they could have been blown out for all I knew, but they looked kind of cool and the price was right. At under $20 they were less than wood and speaker grill cloth to build my own cabinets, so we picked them up and headed home to try them out. I was pleased to find out that my newly purchased speakers were completely blown.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1544\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1544\" style=\"width: 168px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/WP_20140329_005.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1544 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/WP_20140329_005-168x300.jpg\" alt=\"crossover installed in speaker cabinet\" width=\"168\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1544\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crossover done and installed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With the help of the staff at Parts Express I selected appropriately sized drivers (the round speaker bits to us humans) and crossovers (the electronics that split high and low frequencies) for my old cabinets. When I went to buy the crossovers I was pleasantly surprised to find they would be out of stock until mid-May. Yes, pleasantly surprised because that meant I would also get to build my own crossovers.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1541\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1541\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/WP_20140329_002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1541 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/WP_20140329_002-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"inside picture of speakers\" width=\"700\" height=\"393\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1541\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Before (right) and after (left) pictures of my speakers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Now, all that remains is to sit back and turn on some music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve ticked one more thing off my list of nerdy things I\u2019ve been wanting to try: building speakers. 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