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I wanted to share a video/channel i watch about making the best speakers. This guy is a font of useful knowledge. I highly recommend his stuff over watching Netflix. I wanted to share one of the coolest ones i have watched yet...

He tests a bunch of materials as a medium for producing quality sound using a Dayton audio thruster/exciter. I want to build these very badly and test. Make some pop corn, put your thinking cap on and watch this guys videos. The comments section maintain the quality of the sound reproduction. As a DIY project this is something about everyone can do because the budget requirement is soo small.

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I see i included the newer video which is $115 speakers. here are the $30 dollar ones i thought i was posting.
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That is VERY cool. I want to build a set just because, but I really don't have a place to hang/use something like that.
 
I think the coolest thing is he gets incredible sound out of styro foam sheets and acoustic tiles... It almost seems like magic. Granted the panels are much bigger than a box speaker but If you had a dropped ceiling with acoustic tiles you could put in one heck of a sound system. This all started because he used a Dayton exciter attached to a piece of cardboard and the sound was pretty good. So he started making lots of panels of different stuff and testing those. The $30 video is what i watched first. the $115 is a little too technical. I think you have to watch the others first. His moonshine videos were really cool too. He is also making a rail gun... Guys a mad scientist.
 
I watched the first 8 or 9 minutes, but I couldn't get past the idea that his evaluation of “really good sound” is his ears in a barn playing mp3s from his computer. If he was going to get more scientific about it he needed to at least tease that somewhere in the first 8 min. His explanation of nodes sounded good, but was wrong at least as relates to the comparison of the two types of speakers being discussed. He’s wrong in much the same way that Bose 901’s are wrong, but plenty of folks liked those.
 
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I watched the first 8 or 9 minutes, but I couldn't get past the idea that his evaluation of “really good sound” is his ears in a barn playing mp3s from his computer. If he was going to get more scientific about it he needed to at least tease that somewhere in the first 8 min. His explanation of nodes sounded good, but was wrong at least as relates to the comparison of the two types of speakers being discussed. He’s wrong in much the same way that Bose 901’s are wrong, but plenty of folks liked those.
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He is a big nerd and like a lot of them they may not get to the meat of the matter fast enough for today's short attention span. But the end he puts up a high end mic, then runs reference then a signal sweep through sound band we can hear and all the different materials and shows the graph. he uses a Polk speaker as a reference.
 
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Jim B are you an audiophile? I tell you I wonder how good these are and how they compare to higher end speakers. I paid a lot of money for my speakers. I wonder how his 115 dollar set up compared to much higher end sets.
 
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He is a big nerd and like a lot of them they may not get to the meat of the matter fast enough for today's short attention span. But the end he puts up a high end mic, then runs reference then a signal sweep through sound band we can hear and all the different materials and shows the graph. he uses a Polk speaker as a reference.
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Now that I know he gets there I’ll watch the rest. It does look interesting to play with.

At 55 I think I’m too old to be an audiophile, too much hearing loss, but I still use a pair of Meadowlark Audio speakers and a Rogue Audio Zeus amp that I bought maybe 15 years ago in my den and a Benchmark audio dac and amp with B&W CM5 speakers in my small office. Want to try the Benchmark equipment with the Nighthawks, see how they sound without the tube “warmth” of the Zeus. Lots of FLAC audio files, rarely use the turntable these days.
 
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Now that I know he gets there I’ll watch the rest. It does look interesting to play with.

At 55 I think I’m too old to be an audiophile, too much hearing loss, but I still use a pair of Meadowlark Audio speakers and a Rogue Audio Zeus amp that I bought maybe 15 years ago in my den and a Benchmark audio dac and amp with B&W CM5 speakers in my small office. Want to try the Benchmark equipment with the Nighthawks, see how they sound without the tube “warmth” of the Zeus. Lots of FLAC audio files, rarely use the turntable these days.
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Uhh yeah, you sound like an audiophile. I would be curious how foam boards and acoustic tiles stack against expensive speakers. Granted they are much larger than a typical speaker but still. It's a fricken foam board. Anyway, it would be interesting to hear from someone who knows more than i do. Which is very little.
 
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Uhh yeah, you sound like an audiophile. I would be curious how foam boards and acoustic tiles stack against expensive speakers. Granted they are much larger than a typical speaker but still. It's a fricken foam board. Anyway, it would be interesting to hear from someone who knows more than i do. Which is very little.
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I’m interested enough to consider building a set, worst case they end up in the garage. I threw away a couple old 225w solid state amps last year, now I wish I’d held onto them.

I’ll watch the rest of both videos today while chained to the exercise bike.
 
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