When you think about why the Needle is so successful, it’s hard to find a really obvious reason. It features a small full-range speaker that wobbles around in a much-too-big cabinet, and its membrane area is much too small to reproduce the bass – but at the same time far too big to generate high notes. That brings us to the next weakness, the extreme bundling at increasing frequencies, which means that at most one pair of ears can be in the sweet spot at any given time.
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It all started with a couple of loudspeakers from a used-goods shop. I live in an apartment with several roommates, and we were looking for a cheap sound system for our living room. In a well-known secondhand store in Hamburg, we found a couple of homemade boxes at an unbeatably low price. We took them home, hooked them up, and they started working right away.
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Prologue
“Become an author,” we challenge our readers, so that they can share their experiences with others about building and of course listening to the new boxes they have made using our assembly suggestions. Björn took us at our word, and we received his report with the text and attached images. It is available here for public use, free of charge.
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You just can’t say it loud enough: the creations known as “Needles” have long ago become synonymous in the DIY world with the trick of pulling greatness out of small wide-range speakers. When we measured the small wide-range speakers from Dayton Audio, we thought of the Needle right away. Would they work well enough here, too?
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Recently, I got a couple of pedestal loudspeakers out of the attic to set them up in our living room. My wife’s reaction was, “Oh, those are pretty!” She almost petted them. I thought to myself that this loudspeaker box had that certain something – you know, the famous “wife acceptance factor.”
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... and then there was the keepsake that we tailor-made for the Midwest Audiofest.
We had successfully avoided taking part in the contest, but since we were still barely known as speaker builders in the United States, we wanted to make a positive impression. That meant we couldn’t be obnoxious show-offs, but at the same time we didn’t want to be dismissed with an “Oh, that’s nice…”
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Let’s see, where is the best place to start an assembly report? We’ll start with the background – how we came to be interested in DIY projects. In August 2012, we got a new television to replace our outdated one.
... read more
When you think about why the Needle is so successful, it’s hard to find a really obvious reason. It features a small full-range speaker that wobbles around in a much-too-big cabinet, and its membrane area is much too small to reproduce the bass – but at the same time far too big to generate high notes. That brings us to the next weakness, the extreme bundling at increasing frequencies, which means that at most one pair of ears can be in the sweet spot at any given time.
... read more
Recently, I got a couple of pedestal loudspeakers out of the attic to set them up in our living room. My wife’s reaction was, “Oh, those are pretty!” She almost petted them. I thought to myself that this loudspeaker box had that certain something – you know, the famous “wife acceptance factor.”
... read more
It all started with a couple of loudspeakers from a used-goods shop. I live in an apartment with several roommates, and we were looking for a cheap sound system for our living room. In a well-known secondhand store in Hamburg, we found a couple of homemade boxes at an unbeatably low price. We took them home, hooked them up, and they started working right away.
... read more
... and then there was the keepsake that we tailor-made for the Midwest Audiofest.
We had successfully avoided taking part in the contest, but since we were still barely known as speaker builders in the United States, we wanted to make a positive impression. That meant we couldn’t be obnoxious show-offs, but at the same time we didn’t want to be dismissed with an “Oh, that’s nice…”
... read more
Prologue
“Become an author,” we challenge our readers, so that they can share their experiences with others about building and of course listening to the new boxes they have made using our assembly suggestions. Björn took us at our word, and we received his report with the text and attached images. It is available here for public use, free of charge.
... read more
Let’s see, where is the best place to start an assembly report? We’ll start with the background – how we came to be interested in DIY projects. In August 2012, we got a new television to replace our outdated one.
... read more
You just can’t say it loud enough: the creations known as “Needles” have long ago become synonymous in the DIY world with the trick of pulling greatness out of small wide-range speakers. When we measured the small wide-range speakers from Dayton Audio, we thought of the Needle right away. Would they work well enough here, too?
... read more
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