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Help needed for MONTROUS sound!
Warborg:
I just put a Cambridge Soundworks 4.1 system in my Showcase, got it from a friend for $20, works good enough for me... ;)
kalkin:
Tried with a couple of car speakers but they interfered with my tv. Didn't want to go through the hassle with shielding them so I also went with the Cambridge soundworks computer speakers. Not too expensive and good enough sound, plus a separate volume control on some models.
Silverwind:
How about mixing the two?
Could you power a set of car speakers using a home reciever? I don't see why not.. as long as the impedence is correct for the specified receiver.. (don't want to overload it)
most car speakers are are 4ohm.... i'm not sure but are home speakers usually rigged for 8ohm?
Warborg:
--- Quote from: kalkin on January 13, 2003, 05:09:43 am ---Tried with a couple of car speakers but they interfered with my tv. Didn't want to go through the hassle with shielding them so I also went with the Cambridge soundworks computer speakers. Not too expensive and good enough sound, plus a separate volume control on some models.
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Yeah, I have the volume control for my Soundworks speakers mounted in my coindoor for easy access... :)
RandyT:
--- Quote from: kalkin on January 13, 2003, 05:09:43 am ---Tried with a couple of car speakers but they interfered with my tv.
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This is definitely something to take into consideration, especially if you want speakers over the CRT like in most cabinets. Typically, high power speakers have huge magnets and will take quite a bit of effort and expense to keep them from turning your CRT all sorts of undesireable colors. To give you an idea, some car 6x9's I have seen have magnets the size of a coffee can, whereas the original crappy speaker in my Defender cab had one the size of a quarter :).
CRT's also don't like a lot of vibration, so you might want to re-think putting a 15" sub in the bottom of the cab if that's what you had in mind :). Inside the CRT there is something called a shadow mask which is essentially a very fine screen mesh suspended or held in place with equally fine wires. If this mask moves, so does your picture, and if it moves too often, the wires holding it in place can loosen or break. I have about a half dozen 20" computer monitors like this, and they aren't a pretty sight. :P
RandyT
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