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When I packed for "Camp
AOA" I decided not to bring speakers and run the headphones. All was
well until I sold The Spyder my K7master-s and started running a K7s5a. If you've
ever messed with this board you know that the onboard sound output is not nearly
enough to run a pair of phones, so I started lookin for a cheap set of powered
speakers to plug them in to. The cheapest ones I could find with a headphone
jack were $20, but I could get a pair for $4 without, so I decided I would do
that and add my "headphone
jack mod" to it. The mod went well , but when I plugged the speakers
in was treated to what sounded like music playing from the receiver of a telephone
left on the table, fortunately the headphones sounded great.
After deciding the speakers were about as useful as tits on a bull, I rallied
a plan to do away with all but the amp and make a headphone break-out box with
it. I grabbed a "project box" from the local "Shack" and
got busy.
Here's them cheap @$$ speakers
gettin stripped. |
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And here's the guts. (I'm adding some
length to the LED legs). |
Now it's time to hack up that plastic
box. |
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Gotta have some power and input! |
Look! it's gonna fit! |
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A little hot glue for that sloppy OEM
look. |
Here's what its gonna look like. I was
gonna black out the buttons with a marker, but Spode stopped me saying
he liked the contrast. |
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It really don't look too bad!
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Now my headphones have plenty of power and the best part about this mod was
the price, I shelled out less than $10 for the speakers,box and jack combined,
and I don't have to lug around some crappy speakers for people to laugh at,
thus preserving my "Huggy Bear" image.
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