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New Project - PlunkBox Arcade (Single Player Vertical Bartop)
spOOf:
Very impressive work. I wish I could work as fast as you are (I'd even be happy with your progress over a few weeks). Keep it up!
drventure:
Hi
Excellent work on that cab. I like the clean lines.
Did you decase your speakers, and what type did you use?
I've got a pair of powered Altec lansing pc speakers that I'm considering, but the case appears to be glued together, so decasing them is likely to be a one way street, and I'm concerned about the resultant sound.
However, these have a separate ub, and the speaker boxes themselves don't appear to be ported, so it might not be a big deal.
Any thoughts?
splunkett:
--- Quote from: drventure on July 02, 2009, 10:33:00 am ---
Did you decase your speakers, and what type did you use?
I've got a pair of powered Altec lansing pc speakers that I'm considering, but the case appears to be glued together, so decasing them is likely to be a one way street, and I'm concerned about the resultant sound.
However, these have a separate ub, and the speaker boxes themselves don't appear to be ported, so it might not be a big deal.
Any thoughts?
--- End quote ---
Yes I decased a set of (cheap) PC speakers (these ones - http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=35128). Space is tight in the cab so I needed to get the size down to a minimum. Like yours they were glued so there was no going back once I started opening them up. I had thought of building something from scratch with components but it would have been a lot more trouble so I hacked these apart. Only real work was to resolder new cables to the drive units, fit the electronics into a plastic casing and mount these along with the transformer behind the upper panel at the rear of the cab in such a way that I could extend the volume control to an external volume knob.
Sound is good, not something I would use as a music centre but more than adequate for the purpose and it has that sort of classic arcade sound.
drventure:
Cool
Thanks for the reply.
I think I'm just going to go for it with these. They were fairly cheap so it won't be a huge loss in any case ;)
splunkett:
A few more updates on my new build. The best part is that it is now fully functional, so I have been busy playing some of my old favourites. The CP is installed but I am still working through some ideas on artwork, so what's there now is in draft form and looks a bit rough .
Admin buttons will be LED lit once I finish wiring them up from a hacked USB powered cable and a few resistors. Marque is not in place yet either put am close to completing that. Finally the paintwork is ready for the last finish.
Playing around with Mala today (what a great front end) so will complete in a few days.
Anyway, here is how it looks now:
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