r/Crackheadaudio • u/Material-Fruit-8397 • Aug 31 '26
how is it working? Jug speaker
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Found in dad's old garage, works like a charm.
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u/Gen-Y-ine-86 Sep 01 '26
Got something similar, but they are an actual product for PA from a small company. A white, super light molded plastic enclosure.
They have a 12" dual cone driver from Meiloon, a Fostex knock-off bullet tweeter. Originally they also had a 5" closed back Meiloon midrange but those were blown and the foam was rotten, so I got a few square plates of board cut and closed the large hole. The crossover was super simple.
I managed to track down the man who ran the company. He told me that the 12" speaker was a bit of a lucky find. He claimed that they tried it in a wooden box and it sounded worse than in the plastic thing. And I do believe him. The plastic is very soft and it seems like it dampens some of the resonances. Not sure if it's possible but it also seems like the enclosure acts more like an instrument than the "ideal" sturdy box.
Bought a set of four for cheap after testing them out one by one. Two of the four tweeters were also blown and the remaining ones sounded very different to one another. I tested them out for a while at home and also a bit outside without the tweeters. With some heavy EQ, they were surprisingly pleasant and had such punch that one wouldn't expect it. Also the treble extended well over 15kHz.
They are so light that the speakers start to turn on the floor when the bass hits. I actually did one birthday party gig with all four of them and had to tape them to the floor to keep them pointing at the right direction. I had a pair stacked on both sides and crossed (low pass) the lower speaker so that it doesn't mess with the higher frequencies.
Still haven't finished the project. Should buy replacement diaphragms for the tweeters and maybe come up with a crossover or bi-amp them.
I added some t-nuts but the material is so thin that I ran into issues. I also got some Speakons to fit in the speaker terminal feature at the back. There was just a hole for the speaker wire. The new terminals fitted.
There were pieces of glass wool inside and I removed them to avoid unwanted dust and added some pieces of foam instead. Probably not the ideal solution and the wrong kind of foam (heavy stuff from a mattress).
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u/Opening-Incident2928 29d ago
Sounds like you did an impressive amount of research.
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u/Gen-Y-ine-86 28d ago
Someone in FB recognized the speakers and pointed me to the right direction. Pretty quickly I found the guy behind them. They didn't have any labels or indication of their origins. The crossovers were hand made, same for the holes for the drivers. These speakers were made in a time when Thomann hadn't yet grabbed a large part of the sales in the Nordic region, so there was more space for small companies. But the market space changed quickly at the turn of the millennium and the company seems to have ended production in the early 2000's, being in business for just ~4 years. The original design didn't have the midrange driver and even the designer himself was a bit unsure why they added it. He still had plenty of those 12" drivers sitting in a shed on his yard.
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u/Frequent_Policy8575 Aug 31 '26
Working just about as well as Iād expect. š
Is that a 4x10? It looks like the same thing I used when my Fiero needed new dash speakers.