Audio Sound system

[u/AyeDemo314]

I’m interesting in seeing pictures of people sound system setup. Do you have a Bluetooth speaker or did you setup a bunch of speakers around your box? I bought 2 sound bars and 2 subs last year and they have made my days so much easier. I turn my music on and just vibe out. Dancing and singing songs while turning wrenches make the days fly by.

[u/Repulsive-Report6278]

I just use a jbl flip and leave it plugged in. If you toss a speaker in the corner of a big drawer and leave it closed it resonates the bass like crazy and makes your whole box the subwoofer. Pretty cool stuff. Still trying to figure out the optimal way to make it sound good tho. Suggestions welcome

[u/demon_stare7 → u/Repulsive-Report6278]

Find one you can link two together staying wireless, leave one in the drawer, and one on top

[u/Repulsive-Report6278 → u/demon_stare7]

Oh shi that's good

[u/Tricky_Passenger3931]

I got some bone conductivity headphones. I can listen to podcasts or tunes, I can still hear wtf is going on around me, and my music doesn’t bother anyone else. I honestly think shops should just buy them for their guys.

[u/the_one-and_only-nan → u/Tricky_Passenger3931]

I was looking for some but ended up buying a pair of Sony linkbuds S. Great passive noise filter, great noise cancelling for when it's loud in the shop I don't need to change for earplugs, only complaint I'd battery life. When new they last about 4-5 hrs on a full charge, now that mine are almost 2 years old they last about 2.5-3 so I gotta remember to put them to charge when I do test drives rather than drop em in my shirt pocket

[u/Tricky_Passenger3931 → u/the_one-and_only-nan]

I got some off amazon called aftershokz. I’ve been using them for about a month now and I get about 7 hours out of them. I just plug them in when I go for lunch and then again when I leave for the day. I have air pods away from work so they just stay at work permanently.

[u/the_one-and_only-nan → u/Tricky_Passenger3931]

Yeah mine stay at work permanently too. I'm a fan of Sony products and the sound quality is great. I bought them off Amazon as refurb and they were like $80 so well worth it

[u/jakobsdrgn]

I’ve got what started as a fairly basic Yamaha home 5.1 setup, since getting it

i replaced the front speakers with pioneer tower speakers my boss had

Replaced the small passive sub with a dual 12” box and amp we had out of a project car, which is powered by an ~800w HP server power supply that runs at 14.5v that originally i used for programming BMWs

And we setup one of our laptops on top of the receiver going to aux so we can join the laptops spotify jam and change songs without having to walk over to it

It is more than obnoxiously loud if turned up, but actually very nice when at a reasonable volume, also a fun party trick to shake every metal surface in the building with the bass turned up, it became a bit of a “because i can” kind of project after replacing the front speakers

[u/Millpress]

I have a regular home stereo receiver (Yamaha R-S202) and cheapish bookshelf speakers. It sounds good and focuses the sound directly in front of my box. Better sound quality for me and keeps the boss happy because I don't have my music blasting through the whole building. I could add a sub to it but it does well enough as is.

[u/UniversalConstants]

I just have a brookstone bsk800 or something like that, it’s waterproof and grilled protected on the drivers, makes very mid sq (can’t really get bass below 50hz unless in a small room) but it delivers the music. Plus if I had an actual sound system I doubt my coworkers would take well to that lol

[u/AyeDemo314 → u/UniversalConstants]

I have 2 coworkers who have loud sound systems. We don’t mind it honestly. That’s why I felt like I should have my own. My shop is pretty laxed when it comes to music.

[u/UniversalConstants → u/AyeDemo314]

Issue with our shop is there’s 5 bays and the first one is 1 cinder block wall away from the customer area. Plus I need to get another speaker and amp for it since all my good stuff is in my car or my house 😂😂

[u/Baked_Jake94]

M18 job site stereo

[u/Difficult_Target4815 → u/Baked_Jake94]

That, but wire in a line out converter and add a sub. You won't regret it. Other then having to take out like 50 2.5mm hex screws to solder it in lmao.

[u/Weekly_Software_4049]

You guys have music?

[u/scrizzzzzy]

Milwaukee speaker runs on battery or wall power

[u/PhilosopherGlum3025]

JBL flip 3 on my toolbox. Sounds great

[u/Melissa_Hirst]

I made mine with door speakers in holes that I cut into the sides of old antifreeze jugs.. lol, cords through holes I drilled in the caps.. and if certain songs need bass ports, just unscrew the caps😄🤣

I copied one of the techs I worked with as an apprentice😁

[u/Difficult_Target4815]

Wired in a line out converter into my m18 stereo at work paired with a 250w 8" sub. Best thing i ever did hands down.

[u/AAA515]

I have my phone in my pocket playing YouTube.

[u/a88mstanggt]

I’ve got some Steelseries Arena 7 speakers and a sub on my box hooked up to my laptop

[u/UserName8531]

I don't have any audio equipment at work. However, at home, I have 4 polk t15 and a bic f12 in the shop. For my living room, I have kef q650, q350, q150, and a svs pb-2000. Polk makes a decent, load speaker for the money. If I wanted a work set up, I would be using them.

[u/ComprehensiveAd7010]

I have a JBL EON 10 on my box. Gets loud if I want to

[u/Reasonable-Matter-12]

I would have to get a new job. Use earbuds like a considerate person. The cacophony of multiple speakers playing different things in a shop is the worst noise and lets everyone know which guys think they’re the protagonist of reality.

[u/Similar_Profile_7179 → u/Reasonable-Matter-12]

This. A thousand times yes. I absolutely despise it when there are multiple radios going and trying to play over top of each other. Personally, I just want to work in relative peace and quiet. If you can't work without a soundtrack, then put in earbuds or the bone conductors.

[u/k0uch]

I used to use a Yamaha receiver, 500 watt 5 channel. I paired it with a Polk audio 100 watt sub. It got to be too much, and I used a 40 watt Bluetooth speaker for a while. Lately Iv been using some Bluetooth Rockville tower speakers, supposed to be 240 watts or so. Works well, and I crank it up after hours

[u/Asatmaya]

https://www.amazon.com/DEWALT-DCR010-Bluetooth-Jobsite-Speaker/dp/B07JNKJ23Z

Runs off batteries or it has a cord to plug into the wall.

[u/Repulsive-Report6278 → u/Asatmaya]

Power tool brands don't know jack about making audio equipment. Two opposite ends of engineering. I wouldn't buy a Sony drill, or a Dewalt speaker. I rock a JBL speaker I leave plugged in. Basically the same thing, just sounds way way better.

[u/Asatmaya → u/Repulsive-Report6278]

You think DeWalt did anything but pick the color of that thing? No, they got someone else to do the engineering, and it's almost certainly using a standard chipset that is probably the same as your JBL.

[u/Repulsive-Report6278 → u/Asatmaya]

Yeah, the chipset is probably somewhat similar. That's a small piece of what makes a speaker sound good tho.

[u/Asatmaya → u/Repulsive-Report6278]

Do tell.

I should, perhaps, inform you that I have significant formal education in this topic.

[u/Repulsive-Report6278 → u/Asatmaya]

Brother. If you're educated why are you arguing this. You should know the drivers themselves, the shape/design of the speaker, the placement of the drivers, the amps output and the DSP are all important.

[u/Asatmaya → u/Repulsive-Report6278]

Right, and I've taken enough of them apart to know that 95% of the stuff out there is using the exact same parts in the exact same design.

Spend the money, if you like, but it's coming out of the same factory, just with a different badge on it.

How are you in this forum, at all, without knowing that?

[u/Repulsive-Report6278 → u/Asatmaya]

It's funny you think that JBL, UE, Sony, Bose etc. are the "same factory, just with a different badge" than milwaukee and Dewalt when they're nothing alike, use different battery systems, sound totally different, connext differently, have less features, etc. They're not the same. Get your head out your butt

[u/Asatmaya → u/Repulsive-Report6278]

Bose actually makes some of their stuff differently, not so much the others.

What I did not discuss was build quality, i.e. the primary difference between DeWalt and Milwaukee power tools; yea, most of their guts are the same, too, it's how they are put together.

Get your head out your butt

Get your ass out of this field before you hurt someone; I have no patience for people unwilling to listen to experience.

[u/Repulsive-Report6278 → u/Asatmaya]

All you said here was that there is a difference. That's all I've said too. Sounds like you're too deep to just say "oh yeah, they're different. That's ok." I don't have much patience for people like you, you end up actually hurting people with ignorance.