External Speaker??

[togaman]

Just curious what some of you guys out there have used for your external speakers. I just hooked up one of my Paradigm bookshelf speakers in lieu of my Lil bearcat speaker. It sounds pretty good but I actually had to turn the volume up louder to hear at the same level. Seems odd being that this is a bigger speaker. This bookshelf speaker is 8 ohms, are the little externals for radio 4 ohms? Just curious, Ive thought of using a small car speaker before but I have never tried it. Anyone have any interesting ideas??

[Night Crawler]

I use an old stereo speaker someone left out for the trash sounds good.

[murdoc]

I use an RCI Texas Ranger- SRA-168GB (grey and black) same thing in chrome is SRA-168CP. Sounds descent, very Heavy though, weighs about 4 pounds, has like a 22 gauge steel housing.. I'm sure some of the sponsors on here sell them..

Murdoc

[kc4eoe]

I found an unused stereo surround sound speaker for my Galaxy. It has a little woofer, a midrange and tweeter and i just used some heavy duty velcro strips to hold it onto the bottom of the radio. It gives great audio in the truck.
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[DocRock3]

I use an old refurbished Motorola TSN6000A-1---sounds and looks great. For your external speaker, you need an 8 ohm speaker. A car stereo speaker is only 4 ohm.

[likes2grill]

I found a speaker and hooked it up then found another and another till I found one that sounded pretty good then built a wooden box for it stuffed it with r-19 that you put in your walls. sounds great.

['Doc]

Once upon a time I bought a matching speaker (name brand) for my radio. Same style/color as the radio, looked nice on the desk. Sounded terrible. Tried baffles, stuffing the cabinet, everything I could think of, still sounded terrible. Discouraged... Went to the 'Rat Shack', found a 6 - 8" speaker that I thought ought'a work okay, and it was 'cheap'. No fancy cabinet, just the speaker in a cardboard box. Got it home, realized I didn't have a cabinet that would hold the thing. Rats! So cut a hole in the front of that cardboard box, draped a hanky over it, ran the speaker wires out the back of the box and plugged the @#$ thing into the radio. Mercy! It sounded beautimus! Improved the cardboard 'speaker cabinet' in stages, 'magic-markered' a design on it, sprayed it a solid color, swapped out that hanky for some material with a 'design' on it (plaid?), that sort of thing. Also managed to poke holes in the speaker cone and other "Oops!"s. At any rate it finally 'died'. The 'Rat Shack' doesn't sell cheap speakers any more so can't do it that way again. Ain't that the way things always go? Find something that works real good, and they quit making it. Oh well...
- 'Doc


What's the point in all of that? Real simply, try whatever you happen to have, see how it works.

[Slim Pickins]

I got about a dozen 8" speakers from a PA system through a renovation I was working on about a year ago. Since then I have used them on every radio I have and even given some away. I am in the process of building a box to hold one right now for my son's base radio. They sound great and the best part is they were free. Only trouble is they are too big to use in my pickup.

Paul

[420Snowman]

I just bought a cheap Truck stop external for the car, sounds pretty good. On the base I patched together all 4 surround speakers from my old computer stereo, I have CB in surround, (not real surround, but pretty cool none the less).

[Nagant]

I normally run some smaller Jensen truck box speakers for my externals. They have a 3/4" or 1" tweeter and a 3 1/2" mid-range in each. They work well with all my rigs except my old Mirage 2950.

[420Snowman]

I have been looking into this external speaker, I just need to knock out a wall, build a roof, and run a nuclear reactor in the basement to power it!!!


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[togaman]

Right now I'm running a Paradigm bookshelf speaker, sounds decent, maybe overkill, but it works. Sounds smoooth. <---with three O's

[heavyD]

ditto on the surround sound speakers. I got no idea of the ohms but they sound way better than the truck stop speaker i had before. Have one set up on each side of me.

..................420 i think you might get some feedback with that one if you turn on your talk back.. he he he

[togaman]

Yeah mine is 8 ohm, I have to turn the volume up louder to hear it, but it works fine. Makes me think the little bearcat one I had was 4 ohms, as it was louder with the volume just cracked open.

[likes2grill]

I have been looking into this external speaker, I just need to knock out a wall, build a roof, and run a nuclear reactor in the basement to power it!!!


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[420Snowman]

I think if I turn on my talkback with that one it will be just like when he rips the power chord on the movie and it throws him across the room!!! "HOW BOUT IT DX LAND"...AHHHHHHHHH, *flying out of the shack with the sound of breaking glass*


Snowman

[Pirate]

para dynamics is what i use sounds great.. cheaper than some ive used. runs about 20 m= 25 bucks. most cb chops carry them.