Making Your Own Pair of Earbuds

>>61632960
Why would you want to? You're not going to save any money, or make anything better than you can buy.

>>61633355
Why not? With some spare wire and parts laying around I would think that something like that would be a fun DIY project of some sort.

Shouldn't be anything more than a driver in an enclosure that goes in your ear. Any idea about materials and methods for doing it?

>>61633884
No clue to be honest. What do you recommend?

>>61633884
Planning to use older pairs of earbuds that I have lying around the house and see what can I make.

>>61632960
Earbud is small guys, like fuckin small.
You'll have a better chance on building a headphone desu

>>61634021
I don't have any ideas for earbuds desu. I'd be more interested to work with headphones since you have more room to work.
I toy around with diy loudspeakers occasionally but I'm barely competent.

>>61634046
It is as simple as soldering them to a wire. If you're reusing wire from old headphones, they'll have some insulation on the wires themselves. You can burn that off with a lighter/soldering iron. The biggest challenge is housing them, and placing the wires in such a way that the solder job doesn't break in a day. If you open up an earbud, you'll often find that there's a knot in the wire that's inside the casing to relieve strain. I've repaired a few broken pairs before.

>>61634252
Any positive results?

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>>61634307
Yes I've built others' designs on a few occasions taking some liberties in a few places. I really enjoy the cabinet making part of doing loudspeakers. Pic related these aren't finished in a literal sense but sound incredible. Speedster TMM by Paul Carmody.

>>61636025
Ribbon tweeters ! my man !

But this thread is silly you can do it but it's a black art. Speaker design and simulation software is solved. Input the paremetres and make it happen

With iems the volume is magnitudes smaller and nonnlinear effects sneak in - even review sites can't reliably tie measured performance to real world performance / subjective results

Total black art - also when you can get Kz-ate for 10 dollary doos why ?

>>61633859
You said it
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