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Fantastic DIY Speakers for less than $30!

Tech Ingredients shows how to build cheap, high-performance flat-panel speakers using audio exciters on sheet materials such as foam-core board. It explains how distributed-mode speakers work and walks through experiments to find good designs.

Why HN readers recommended it

Pointed to by hobbyists interested in building flat-panel DIY speakers from cheap materials.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
Tech Ingredients
Topic
diy flat panel speakers
Format
tutorial
Level
intro
HN recommenders in dataset
2
HN mentions in dataset
4
Recommendation years in dataset
2018–2023

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.

  • I kind of want to build one of these amps and connect it to a set of speaker built with these cheap exciters... One of the Youtube channels I follow messed around with them [LINK] but he got that from this other video [VIDEO] where …

    linsomniac on Hacker News · 2018-11
    In Build Your Own Professional-Grade Audio Amp on the Sort-Of Cheap
  • Yeah was going to say, this reminded me of this[1] video (series of videos actually, but this is the first in the series). Interesting stuff. [1] [VIDEO]

    staindk on Hacker News · 2022-04
    In MIT researchers develop a paper thin loudspeaker

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