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(More customer reviews)I've been an audiophile since the Nixon administration. I first heard about the Sound Pads from a friend who is an accomplished loudspeaker system designer. I went over to his shop the other day and sat down to listen to his latest system configuration. It wasn't quite what I was used to hearing there, but I figured he'd been fooling around with his digital equalizer. He typically runs some very esoteric high frequency horns along with some enormous sub-woofers. What I was hearing was pretty good, but not quite up to his usual grade. Hanging from his ceiling next to his prototype loudspeakers were a pair of 2 foot by 3 foot pieces of foam core, the stuff that artists use. I figured he was doing some sort of acoustic room treatment with them. I was more than surprised when I went up to examine his speakers and found that they were not playing at all, but that the sound was coming from the hanging pieces of foam core!
The foam core pieces each had two Sound Pads taped to their backs. He was using two Sound Pads for each side to get more efficiency. The foam core was 1/2" thick. We talked about what materials he was experimenting with for use with the Sound Pads and it was agreed that light and stiff materials worked best.
No, this wasn't truly high end audio, but it was miles better than the usual dreck you get from places like Circuit City, Good Guys, and the like. It was good enough that I could have enjoyed myself listening to that all night. You'd have to spend a good $1500/pair for speakers that would be any better than these things!
Now mind you, the idea of hanging 2 foot by 3 foot pieces of foam core from your ceiling, and draping speaker wire along with it, probably won't go over very well with your wife. But if you do your listening in a college dorm or co-op, wood shop, auto shop, or some other less tidy environment, this could really work well for you. These things sound *GOOD*!
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Make any thin-walled, high-transmission surface into a speaker with these stick-on speaker pads. The SoundPads can be wired to amplifiers up to 25 watts per channel and the built-in poly switch gives protection against overload. The discreet peel and stick design can be used on bookcases, ceiling tiles and more. Two SoundPad stick-on speakers included. Speaker wires sold separately. Imported. 4-1/8Hx4-1/8Wx3/4D".
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