First post, by Socket3
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Hi guys.
Most of my retro PC setups use modern 2.0 speakers - specifically the Logitech Z200 witch I find to have decent audio quality for a decent price, and also come in white!!!
The problem is they are not magnetically shielded and that's annoying. I have to keep the speakers at least 20cm away from my monitors, making my setups all but compact. I have too many retro setups and not enough room.... I have a few period correct shielded speakers, but all of them are very cheap basic noname speakers and sound horrible. High end stuff wasn't really a thing in my country - nobody would shell out the $$$ for Roland or Creative computer speakers as they would sometimes cost more then a Yamaha OPL3-SAx....
Do any of you know if it's possible to modify modern speakers like the Z200 and add magnetic shielding?
I took apart a pair of old speakers and they seem to have a metal cup glued over the magnet. One solution would be to destroy a set of these (witch I don't really want to do) and glue the cups over the drivers on the Z200, but that would only work if the magnets on both drivers are the same size or the ones on the donor drivers are slightly bigger then the ones on the Z200... witch they are not.
What about aluminum foil? Aluminum is diamagnetic, would lining the inside of the Z200's shield the monitor? Is there anything special about the metal cups found on old speakers or is it just plain steel?
[EDIT] on second thought maybe I should have posted this in "Sound"...