So Steve can have his fancy dancy  Tiny Radials made up from exotic woods and using expensive drivers.

I'm just a simple guy, or as Joe Walsh puts it, Just a Ordinary Average Guy.

So I decided to build a pair of radial speakers with the crap I had laying around.

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They are MDF because that's what I had, The extra pieces that collect around when you build stuff, you know, the stuff you tell your wife that you would throw it out but the garbage can is full.

The Drivers are some sort of plastic framed 4" Dayton Audio $14.99 specials. They were ripped from my garbage can boombox project. The boombox they told me to turn down at last years DecFest because they could hear it inside over the stereo that was playing.

They are 14" tall 5.5" wide and 8" deep. The dimensions were carefully calculated with a proprietary super computer for perfect sound, or that was the sizes I had to work with, one or the other, I can't remember.



MDF was cut, plans were devised, mistakes were made, changing said plans, sometimes drastically. But morale was maintained and things were moving forward at a drastic pace.

I had to use items that I had at hand because I didn't want to go out into the wilds of Lowe's or Menard's. Both places are a jungle, full of crazy cabin fevered, Corona carrying, semi rabid people, just a half of a week away from sure death.

Anyway, things got done, some details aren't what I would normally be proud of, but times like these make average guys desperate.

Eventually, things started coming together and something resembling what I had envisioned appeared.







They now sit in a place of honor in my stereo room, one on a cardboard box, a fitting resting place for such a high end speaker.



How do they sound?
Passable, the image does float above them.
Currently they sound kind of hollow, perhaps needing some fiber fill stuffing. So I'm eyeballing up a pillow on the couch over in the downstairs family room that no one uses.
A ordinary average guy has to do desperate things in these desperate times.

The stolen pillow stuffing fixed things right up. The hollow sound went away.

And my wife hasn't even missed the pillow, yet. The secret is to only take one, that way she thinks that it must be misplaced.

I'm starting to wrap my mind around the radial sound. These sound a little better sitting on the floor instead of on the "stands" that I was using before. The sound from these seem to bloom upward and outward, somewhat like how a water fountain in a park looks.

There was a lack of room filling bass so I hooked my cardboard box sub woofer up. Now things are starting to sound a lot better.

It is fun to have a low effort project with a small amount of time and effort invested work out so well.

Pretty neat outcome for a project just made with items found on hand.

What a great story.  Thanks for sharing a fun read and a really entertaining build.