Comments on: Cigarette tin amp

By: Vincent Perreault

Vincent Perreault — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:17:45 +0000

good article. i bookmarked your blog for future reference. thanks!

By: killercig

killercig — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:10:54 +0000

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By: poisonfist

poisonfist — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:48:06 +0000

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.

By: Gio

Gio — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:45:23 +0000

@#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.

By: Urza

Urza — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:25:07 +0000

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

By: jaket

jaket — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:41:57 +0000

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?

By: michaelb

michaelb — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:30:12 +0000

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...