Speakers and other Bright Ideas… Maybe not so Bright...

[Phillip Lontz]

Re Speakers and the KX3 and the KX1…
Has anyone considered the speaks used in the iPad, iPhone, iPad Mini and the iTouch?
The iPad speaker sounds darn good!
I am about to pop the top on an older iTouch that has a built in speaker… Its sound is so so but maybe it would work for the KX1…

Ideas….
Bueller ???
Anyone??

Phil
Winter has arrived in Santa Fe… Snow and cold.
K5SSR
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[ve3dvy]

Interesting idea    I did that in a speaker mic that I used on an HT
using a speaker element from a dead blackberry.   it sounded much better
than the original.    My only worry is the original speaker used and its
magnetic shielding may be important.    If I replaced it would I be
creating potential problems if I cant shield the magnet properly.

(i dont have either KX1 or KX3  but often thought a better speaker
driver in the K3 would be nice but dont want to take the chance of
adding a problem)

On 12/10/2012 1:17 PM, Phil Townsend Lontz wrote:

> Re Speakers and the KX3 and the KX1…
> Has anyone considered the speaks used in the iPad, iPhone, iPad Mini and the iTouch?
> The iPad speaker sounds darn good!
> I am about to pop the top on an older iTouch that has a built in speaker… Its sound is so so but maybe it would work for the KX1…
>
> Ideas….
> Bueller ???
> Anyone??
>
> Phil
> Winter has arrived in Santa Fe… Snow and cold.
> K5SSR
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[ve3dvy]

This is true in many cases.   however in many small devices like phones
and such put decent modern drivers  in that will sound pretty good
without all the electronic wizardry that the device uses to make it even
better   my speaker mic was proof of that.    Its amazing how the fine
points of speaker driver  have changed  in the miniature world of today
yet the basic principle is still the same as the good old Rice Kellogg
design of 1924.


> Where the speaker, its driving electronics and the enclosure are all
> in one package, there's great scope to compensate for all the
> short-comings of the arrangement with sophisticated (software) filters
> which you will not get when you salvage just the speaker which is not
> in itself optimised for clarity - it's the whole ensemble.
>
> David
> G3UNA
>

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