protecting the back of speaker from water

[hippy]

how do i do that if i made my own holders and not using the standard ones?? will it affect the sound at all if i placed something at the back??

[PuppaDuck]

Hi Hippy...

Are you talking about the water that might get on your door speakers ?

Try and make a semi-curved cover that will steer water off from the top of the speaker - like the original ones did...

Anything you put on the back may affect your sound - but it may also improve it (or be insignificant) so try out a few things...

If you use flimsy stuff, you may hear it vibrate...so keep it solid...

good luck

[Greg]

i cut up an old basketball i had lying around (nice and curved). it keeps the water off well, but vibrates and sounds absolutely shithouse! try a marine place, i was told they sell the kind of covers we're after. or maybe the stock covers could be modified to fit custom mdf mounts? i might give that a try....

[PuppaDuck]

Just go looking around your room, work, etc and you'll find something that'll do the job...

get a cheap funnel from one of the junk shops for $2 and modify that...(you might get two out of it to cover both doors)

hell do the rounds in the junk shop and see what you can destroy for under $5

I'll keep an eye out and might pop past one during lunch to see what I can find for ya...

Actually...I GOT IT !

Use a damn mouse pad...the black foam-based ones...

I've seen a product in the states that uses cups made of this stuff...and they mounted the speaker in through the cup...

but if you use your fronts for mega bass, the cups might prove a little restrictive, and you'd have to poke a hole through it anyway...

so for your app (and going off the fact that its a custom jobby) you'd be able to engineer yourself your own version from the same stuff...and old mouse pads are all over the place...

let me know how you go...!

[Al]

BETTER IDEA!!

Go to the $2 shop or supermarket and by one of those cheap tupperware(sp?) type plastic bowls and cut in half. One half for each speaker.

[PuppaDuck]

Those plastic bowls shouldn't vibrate...

Especially if you can find one with a nice firm lip that'll keep it tight...

Let us know what you do

[KamikazeR33]

how about we use a condom

[sed8]

plastic stick it to the topside of the speaker an let it naturally hang down cheap and easy