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Ikea Speaker?


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This is a spin-off of another thread:


 

Why not just find a box at IKEA and put speaker in there? If you don't mind, I won't soil my sheets over your design, but I am sure the speaker could be voiced to sound very "audiophile".

 
I have long wondered why IKEA does not make flat-pack speakers. 
 
Either a simple, but relatively large (larger than what you could conveniently load into a very small car anyways) single driver or 2-way speaker in a rectangular box (maybe with a port?) OR a crazy-super-sexxy single driver folded horn. 

 

I wonder if the market demand for a nicer speaker is just too small :( 

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i know it isn't the same without the driver, but someone needs to make an open source version of this box

 

http://www.voxativ.com/en/loudspeakers/ampeggio-due-2/

 

it could be done with two hundred bucks worth of wood.  i think.

 

plexi version which shows the simplicity of recreating the design.

http://www.voxativ.com/en/loudspeakers/acrylic-due/

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These http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/40104270/make awesome equipment stands.  The top is constructed the same way as Russ Andrews Torlyte - it is basically a wooden honeycomb.  Very light and non-resonant.  Price, like all Ikea is stupidly low - we're talking £8UK - so maybe 15 bucks - as compared with two orders of magnitude more for Torlyte.  So cheap in fact it is worth buying one and just trying it out.

 

And massively strong - I am using the double width one as a test equipment support at the moment with several hundred pounds of gear on it.

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it is the Lack side table.  Looks like they do a wall mounted shelf under the same Lack series which might be interesting for a turntable support (if like me you returned to vinyl)

 

Go into the US Ikea site and type Lack into the search box.  The Lack side table comes up at $9.99, the coffee table at $19.99 and the wall shelf at $6.99.

 

The coffee table used to be supplied without the shelf, but since that is just a thin board you can leave it off, and the fixings for it too if you just want the top surface for gear.

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