I counter with this: http://xkcd.com/368/
(Although modified a bit…)

What would one use this for, unless it’s sole purpose IS to “oppress” people with loud music..
I wonder if this, or similar, could be used in conjunction with an iPod mod I had seen about taking the audio from the DAC, before it went through the internal amps, to achieve higher sound quality…

Posted at 5:30 pm on Jun 30th, 2008 by michaelb

the only thing I see wrong with this design is that those speakers have magnets in them, and if you were to keep a HDD-based mp3 player (creative, zune, ipod, etc), you’d probably end up wrecking the internal hard drive, would you not?

Posted at 5:41 pm on Jun 30th, 2008 by jaket

jaket: Doubtful. Magnets around hard drives, in my experience, aren’t as dangerous as you are led to believe. Hell, my last computer case had the case speaker positioned right under the hard drive. Damn thing went right over that magnet many, many times…got suck to that magnet many, many times…and I never lost any data from it. And it was a damn powerful magnet too. It’d suck a screwdriver to it from several inches away.

As for portable media players…I accidentally put my ipod right on top of a hard drive magnet once and it survived. Though I wouldn’t really recommend that…lol

Posted at 6:25 pm on Jun 30th, 2008 by Urza

@#1 It is a 2W chip so it won’t be that loud.

When they say “optimized for loudness” I think that means LF boost. Those speakers likely need the tweeters to fill in the upper end.

I like the use of the tin as I just hate paying for enclosures.

Posted at 9:45 pm on Jun 30th, 2008 by Gio

Agreed, magnets would be the least of worries in this design. I would say the biggest problem with this project is the flimsy enclosure he chose to use. It would cause a horrible box effect with it resonating horribly.

Posted at 10:48 pm on Jun 30th, 2008 by poisonfist

Classic tobacco cigarettes are so passé, hooray for the revolutionary electronic cigarette and e-cigar! ^^

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Posted at 10:17 pm on Nov 12th, 2009 by Vincent Perreault