Ikea Speaker?

[nikongod]

This is a spin-off of another thread:

 

Why not just find a box at IKEA and put speaker in there? If you don't mind, I won't soil my sheets over your design, but I am sure the speaker could be voiced to sound very "audiophile".

 
I have long wondered why IKEA does not make flat-pack speakers. 
 
Either a simple, but relatively large (larger than what you could conveniently load into a very small car anyways) single driver or 2-way speaker in a rectangular box (maybe with a port?) OR a crazy-super-sexxy single driver folded horn. 

 

I wonder if the market demand for a nicer speaker is just too small  

[spritzer]

It is but I've seen somebody turn basic Ikea wooden boxes into speakers.  It was at the Euro triode festival. 

[spritzer]

Found it:

 

[aardvark baguette]

i know it isn't the same without the driver, but someone needs to make an open source version of this box

 

http://www.voxativ.com/en/loudspeakers/ampeggio-due-2/

 

it could be done with two hundred bucks worth of wood.  i think.

 

plexi version which shows the simplicity of recreating the design.

http://www.voxativ.com/en/loudspeakers/acrylic-due/

Edited February 23, 2015 by aardvark baguette

[acidbasement]

There are a few Ikea hackers making spherical-ish speakers out of bowls.

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJVOJk3F2r0

[Craig Sawyers]

These http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/40104270/make awesome equipment stands.  The top is constructed the same way as Russ Andrews Torlyte - it is basically a wooden honeycomb.  Very light and non-resonant.  Price, like all Ikea is stupidly low - we're talking £8UK - so maybe 15 bucks - as compared with two orders of magnitude more for Torlyte.  So cheap in fact it is worth buying one and just trying it out.

 

And massively strong - I am using the double width one as a test equipment support at the moment with several hundred pounds of gear on it.

[n_maher]

Craig,

IKEA Uk doesn't like folks in the US so is there a name for the product you were referencing?

[acidbasement]

It linked me to the Lack side table.

Edited February 24, 2015 by acidbasement

[grawk]

Yup lack. I love my 2

[Dusty Chalk]

WTH?  I got confused guy, too, and when I googled "Ikea Lack", a couple of the google links sent me there, too.

 

WTFF?

 

[Craig Sawyers]

it is the Lack side table.  Looks like they do a wall mounted shelf under the same Lack series which might be interesting for a turntable support (if like me you returned to vinyl)

 

Go into the US Ikea site and type Lack into the search box.  The Lack side table comes up at $9.99, the coffee table at $19.99 and the wall shelf at $6.99.

 

The coffee table used to be supplied without the shelf, but since that is just a thin board you can leave it off, and the fixings for it too if you just want the top surface for gear.

Edited February 24, 2015 by Craig Sawyers

[grawk]

The older ones worked almost perfectly for mounting 19" racks on the legs too. The new ones don't have enough structure to the legs to do it tho