Turning Dead Drives into Speakers?

An anonymous reader writes "Why pay 500$ for Klipsch's latest speaker system? You can make something that looks way cooler for the price of a DIY amplifier and some HDDs out of a dumpster. It doesn't sound quite as good but who cares!" Next week we'll show you how to turn a laundry basket and a speak & spell into your own segway.

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Worse than Klipsch ProMedia?

[Sivar]

"It doesn't sound quite as good but who cares!"

Doesn't sound as good as the Klipsch Promedia? Ouch...
The ProMedia series is famous for being very powerful for the money, but the sound quality is definitely below par. The mids are week and "flubbery", the highs are slightly colorized and overly enthusiastic. The lows are nice, but the transition from tweeters to subwoofer is off a bit. Monsoon speakers are good for those who want real sound quality from a PC at a sane (in fact, even cheaper than the Klipsch) price point. They are nowhere near as powerful though. Klipsch are for gamers and those who watch DVDs on their PC, where accurate sound reproduction takes a back seat to thumping. They are not good for the music listener at that price point. I have heard (no pun intended) that the new 5.1 Klipsch system solves many of these problems. Note that I have nothing against Klipsch--in fact, my home theater system uses KSB 3.1's, but the ProMedias do have their weaknesses.

Re:Redundancy Prevails

[A Guy From Ottawa]

I simply pressed ALT-F2 from KDE, typed `gg:hard drive speakers site:slashdot.org`, and the very first hit was the article.

This is a REALLY good point... why doesn't the slashdot crew hack together a perl script to check for redundant article's like this? I think (hope) they already screen URLs but going to Google (through their helpful API) for stories about to be posted would virtually eliminate double posts.

omfg

[Wakko Warner]

"It doesn't sound quite as good but who cares!"

Yeah. I buy speakers because they look good.

- A.P.