{"id":287,"date":"2017-05-01T12:50:23","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T20:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.evanyamoto.com\/?p=287"},"modified":"2017-05-01T12:50:23","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T20:50:23","slug":"workspace-speakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/01\/workspace-speakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Workspace – Speakers"},"content":{"rendered":"

My last post was about the desk I made (really more of finishing than making). \u00a0Underneath the desk are some speakers I’ve been refinishing too. \u00a0That’s taken me over two years, but they’re finally complete.<\/p>\n

My wife and I like to go to thrift stores to look for things we can fix up. \u00a0I found these KLH 17 speakers a few years ago and bought them for $20. \u00a0They were in pretty rough shape and one of the tweeters was blown.<\/p>\n

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I ended up on forums, which seem to be the best source of information on the internet. \u00a0I bought a replacement tweeter on eBay as well as a sealant to repair the seal around the woofer. \u00a0I also read that the capacitors (or something) was likely to be broken so I ordered some parts and followed a step-by-step guide to replace the crossovers (thanks again, internet).<\/p>\n

They sat like this for over year until I started working on the desk. \u00a0I ended up refinishing the cabinets at the same time and it was much faster this way.<\/p>\n

I’ve also bought some speaker fabric on Etsy before, but I found the same material for much cheaper somewhere else that I forgot too.<\/p>\n

I’ve also been experimenting with some mini-amps on Amazon. \u00a0I used a Lepai on another project<\/a>, I tried a Topping TP22, but I settled on\u00a0an SMSL SA50<\/a>\u00a0because it has more power and sounds great with these speakers.<\/p>\n

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I’ll have to make some stands to get them off the ground next. \u00a0I have plans to use some of the scrap Ipe wood I used to build our fences but this will probably take me another year to get to.<\/p>\n

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My last post was about the desk I made (really more of finishing than making). \u00a0Underneath the desk are some speakers I’ve been refinishing too. \u00a0That’s taken me over two years, but they’re finally complete. My wife and I like to go to thrift stores to look for things we can fix up. \u00a0I found […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":278,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[20,24,30],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diy","tag-made-it","tag-tried-it","tag-woodworking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}