Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Home Made Ipod Dock, Boom Box


Using two Swan Hivi BN3 speakers, a Dayton Audio tweeter, full crossover network printed on a PCB board and a lepai t-amp, I've created my own custom I-phone dock. It sounds very clean, with very tight clean bass. Overall it was a great project and fun to build. It gets loud, and with the treble and bass controls its adjustable to the sound you want. It also charges an I-phone while in use and also when the amplifier is turned off. The speakers and amplifier are of excellent quality. I would buy them again and I highly recommend them to anyone trying to find nice small sized speakers or a 2-channel 20 watt amp.


Auxiliary jack on back for other non I-pod devices










6 comments:

  1. Thats pretty legit!!! :D

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    1. Thanks, it was a lot of wood working but it was worth the work and i am very happy with the way it turned out.

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    1. Yes, It is a two channel amp that puts out 20watts RMS at 4 ohms. When it is on, the volume knob glows blue because of an L.E.D. You can find more information here. http://www.parts-express.com/pe/showdetl.cfm?partnumber=310-300

      P.S. I will be adding tweeters to this boombox and hope to have pictures and information of the new box put up this week.

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  3. how you conected the ipod at speakers , whitout a jack? only with ipod cable?

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    1. The speakers are connected to a Lepai amplifier, the amp can support two inputs. One I chose to be a 3.5mm headphone jack which most everything uses, and the other is a split USB charging I-Phone/pod cable.

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