Surface Transducer Turns Virtually Anything Into A Speaker $1.99 + S&H

kinev

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Huh! Sounds interesting to play with for only $2 + S&H. Have you tried them? Nobody would expect great sound quality, but are they even usable?
 

funboy6942

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Huh! Sounds interesting to play with for only $2 + S&H. Have you tried them? Nobody would expect great sound quality, but are they even usable?

I have used something like this before and it was actually fun going through all I own to see what sounded the best. I plan on getting as set of these when I get paid tomorrow and see what I can find around my home to mess with.
 

Crockett

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These things are pretty sweet. Plastic trash can in the office makes a pretty decent speaker.
 

mikeford

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Good tip on the amazon link for lower shipping, like half price for me, and nearly $12 from PE was a deal killer.

These are almost all the parts that make up a speaker, EXCEPT the cone. Whatever you glue them to gets wiggled in place of the cone.
 

killster1

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and i dont even know how they connect / work !
 

YOyoYOhowsDAjello

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In case this isn't obvious, you will need an amplifier of some kind to drive these.
 

Zap

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i dont even know how they connect / work !

There are wires attached. Those are basically speaker wires, so you need to use it with some amplified source.

The unit itself needs to be stuck on to something using double sided tape. Basically it is the "motor" of a speaker and whatever you stick it to is the "cone" of the speaker. Obviously it works best stuck to something lightweight and stiff - basically anything with similar properties to what is actually used for speaker cones. I've heard that cardboard and foam/poster board can work. Use your imagination and creativity! Note that it should be possible to remove it from whatever you stuck it to with a bit of elbow grease and reattach it to something else with some new double sided tape.

I actually own a pair (Dayton branded - PE's house brand? Cost a lot more ) but haven't used them yet.

any amp products you'd recoment YoyoJellodaddio?

If you want something cheap to play with, look for the T-amps. There are two sold under the Dayton name (I think Sonic went bust). One around $45 or so which includes a power adapter and is enclosed in a nice plastic box. The other is the bare guts plus the volume control for $20. There are also similar class D/T amps being sold at PE as Shure, ranging from 2x2W to 4x100W. These are bare PCB with no power supply and no volume control. Good for a hobbyist. Dealextreme.com also has some similar amp PCBs for pretty cheap.

If you want to be able to use it right away instead of having to build/power it yourself, get the $45 Dayton T-amp.

Pyle also makes some small amp boxes with volume control, but I'm not quite sold on the quality. For some reason many people love the T-amps, saying they sound almost as good as old fashioned tube amps. I also have a Dayton T-amp and it sounded fine to my tin ears, albeit at lower volume levels due to low wattage output.

Oh, and stop calling me YoyoJellodaddio.
 

YOyoYOhowsDAjello

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I'm listening to a t-amp right now

Yeah, that or something else cheap. Besides the typical small PCB stuff, there's also the option to get some old receiver off craigslist. Advantage to this would be a built-in tuner, possibly more inputs, etc. On the downside, it will be huge in comparison to the little t-amps or their cousins.
 

killster1

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so can i split open a headphone jack and wire the speaker cables to the whatcha ma call it and then tape it to a cone for a pc speaker? i dont need it to sound super loud any sound would be fine.
 

mikeford

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so can i split open a headphone jack and wire the speaker cables to the whatcha ma call it and then tape it to a cone for a pc speaker? i dont need it to sound super loud any sound would be fine.

Headphone jack is something like 0.1 watt, they would not make much if any sound unless you glued them to your head.

They have the same requirements as many small speakers, 5 to 10 watts, but slightly less efficient in most cases so not as loud as small speakers at the same power level.
 

s44

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There are a lot of T-amp models on eBay, some of surprising fanciness.
 

Zap

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There are a lot of T-amp models on eBay, some of surprising fanciness.

Holy crap! You're right! I see one for $36 BIN (w/o PSU though) that has what looks to be an aluminum plate face, gold binding posts in the back and a big aluminum volume knob.
 
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