Project SUBi!
Walking the dog the other day I found this lying amongst a pile of hard rubbish on someones lawn.
It's a Home Theater subby from the late 90's! As I scurried away with my treasure I wondered "does it work?". "What would be wrong with it?" I'm sure the original owner peered through the blinds as I made off with it, chuckling to himself "heh, wait till he fires that piece of crap up, boy will he get a surprise".
So of course I plugged it in and ran tests. Horrendous humming and buzzing ensured
What is kaput here? I replaced the standard things that don't age well over the years. Capacitors all new (cost about $12). Then had a closer look at the input side of things. The RCA sockets were so worn that my input cable was not making ground contact. Thus the buzzing. Removed sockets and replaced with new shiny gold ones.
Re-ran tests. Ahhh thumpin clean Danish designed BASS. Who's laughing now neighbor?
So this hardware is destined for a subby to compliment a pair of bookshelf speakers I'm building. It will be sealed unlike the ported original enclosure. I'm only interested in a frequency output that fills the gap just below these speakers. More punch and not so much rumble if you know what I mean.
The real value in this is the 90watt Jamo amp. The rest can go in my hard rubbish. I'm going to build a new sexy enclosure for an 8" driver to go with the amp. I won't be using wood or MDF at all to make that...
Stay tuned.