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.
And here's the guts. (I'm adding some
length to the LED legs).
Now it's time to hack up that plastic
box.
Gotta have some power and input!
Look! it's gonna fit!
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.
It really don't look too bad!
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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