Speaker recommendations ?.

[cliff_poole]

I've never been happy with the quality of the speaker in my JAMMA cabinet and there is an empty space for a second one on the right hand side so I thought I'd get a pair. Easy, I thought, but neither Maplin or CPC do anything suitable.

What I am looking for is a reasonable pair of 4 inch, 8 ohm speakers that can be directly screwed to a flat board, i.e., none of the cone should be protruding from the surround. I know I could just get standard speakers and chock them up with bits of wood but I would rather find the perfect thing for the job.

Does anyone have any recommendations ?.

 

[trm]

I bought something very close to what you describe from Maplin a couple of years ago. What's the problem with the ones you've seen at Maplin?

I'll go and see if I can find these in a min and get the part code for you.

 

[cliff_poole]

The closest I could find on their web site was L68AW which looks good, even sheilded, but unfortunately it looks as if it has to either sit in a round cutout or mount from the front.

The speakers in my cab screw face down on a board with routed slots cut in it.

 

[trm]

Ah. Having seen the pic I know what you mean. I strongly suspect that I ended up finding some which fit the internal diameter of the cutout of the panel holding the speakers as they had a wire mesh over the front to obscure the large circle cutout of the panel.

Will still have a look, although it'll have to wait till morning now. Bloody VAT returns

 

[Stone]

These ones are extremely good for the size. I've got a couple of the next size up at work I can dig out if you want them.

I made these up into a 1U audio-out rack panel for some equipment - you could mount them with no visible mounting holes by drilling a blind hole from the reverse of the panel and using tee nuts to accept the screw thread. I chose the oval/rectangular ones so I could get a larger cone for the same height but Visatron also make normal round types. Farnell also sell speaker grilles if you want to cover them up afterwards - or you could just mill some slots in the panel in front of the speaker as on my cab.

Stone

Stone2011-05-06 11:22:32

 

[Bensonrad]

Ahh these look perfect for my speaker that blew up thanks to that bloody Haunted Castle pcb.

 

[Stone]

Was it haunted?

 

[cliff_poole]

Stone, Good call with Farnell !. It must be years since I last looked at their site, at the time they were not dealing with the general public. I'll have to start an account. They have one that looks like it might do the job, it has a card gasket around the outside of the cone.

Those eliptical speakers look like the ones in HP desktop PCs, I have always been impressed by the sound that comes out of those for such a small speaker.

 

[Stone]

Farnell are great! I use them and RS almost exclusively now - mostly Farnell because their website's way better.

I've dug out the speakers I had - they're this one from Rapid. They're brand new (never used, I bought the wrong size) and cost £5.15 each + postage, if you want them you can have both for £6 posted.

edited to add: just noticed the Rapid page on them is a bit crap! They're 50.5mm * 90.5mm * 29.5mm deep, and the front mounting holes are 4mm*6mm ovals arranged at the vertices of a rectangle 40.5mm*76mm. They're 8Ohm, nominal power handling 3W (peak 4W) and frequency response 150-17000Hz.

Stone

Stone2011-05-10 16:49:51

 

[cliff_poole]

Thanks for the offer.

Soon after my last post I got a clearance leaflet from CPC through the door that had some for £1.99 each. I have got to give them a go, it is too much of a coincidence not to be fate

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[Bensonrad]

Was it haunted?

Haunted with an electrical sound machine gun I believe!