Klipsch speaker mods
posted Aug 23rd 2009 9:47am by Caleb Kraftfiled under: digital audio hacks, peripherals hacks
[Patrick] has a pair of Klipsch speakers that continually needed the volume knob cleaned. After a bit of research, he found it was a common problem with the potentiometer chosen for the task. He decided to resolve the problem, not by replacing that potentiometer, but by modifying the speakers to be passive and running them from an external amp. While this does sound simple at first, he wanted to retain the rest of the electronics in the unit, so a bit of hacking was required. You can follow along through the whole process on his site.
Cool mod, I wonder if it would have been possible to make a touch or digital volume control that would be “immune” to the dust instead. Either way, seems like a reasonable solution to finding purpose for the speakers.