High Quality Harddrive Speakers [PPK - Resurrection]

[cumminsallthaway]

i got a question, how does this work? plz no smart ass answers

[FurreFurre]

@cumminsallthaway It works just like a speaker. You connect the cables from your amplifier to the coil of the hard-drive reading arm (just like you connect the coil in your speaker in your regular speakers). Then to get the best quality, you need to fasten the reading arm against the hard-drive casing to get as much vibrations as possible. The reason why this work is because it basically contains the same items as your speaker; A coil and a very strong magnet.

[trabladorr]

240p videos on youtube have very low audio quality. Uploading any music as a 240p video will ruin it!

Google "h3xed youtube bitrate" to see a list of approximate bitrates per resolution.

[Satelitko]

Fake...



[moonheadd]

whats the tune called

[FurreFurre]

@moonheadd

Stated in the title; PPK - Resurrection

[dillinger9999]

at least show where to hook the wires into.

[zebigboss5121]

pff les disque dur sont statique on le voit a la poussière dessus si ils tournaient on la verrait pas --' perte de temps cette video

[HCkev]

@zebigboss5121 C'est le mouvement des bras d'écriture qui font le son.... Si le disque tournait, ça ferait juste rajouter un son de moteur....

[crisflashin]

do you try to turn on the disk at the same time?

[LHUPA]

On my side, I'm building a record cutter lathe with a turntable, an inkjet printer (as cutter head carrier) and I will experience the record cutter head with hard disk drives (as stylus driver)! So, I look forward of the results!...

[AmIStoned]

Why must they say high quality and then record it in 240p

[FurreFurre]

@AmIStoned The HDD Speakers produce high quality sound, the movie is not high definition if thats what you were thinking.

[MrSmokinbuddah]

@FurreFurre

I do agree thats what the title meant, although he would be incorrect about that also.. lol

[mnagmobile]

@AmIStoned 240p wont portray good sound so it's pointless. he was referring to high quality sound (speakers) which are clearly labeled int he video title.

[robiniroven]

@AmIStoned retard

[FurreFurre]

@aznalex0 That'd solve nothing, then you will say that I will need to do something else to prove it, damnit look at the "Proof!" video!

[MATILLEGE]

nice music, nice idea im gonna try it with the broken hdd i have when i finally break into it

[FurreFurre]

@MATILLEGE I hope you will suceed. Just remember not to put too much tension on the reading arm or it will decrease the quality, Good luck!

[MATILLEGE]

@FurreFurre i did it! kinda hard cuz it was a tiny laptop hdd so i had to take it apart to solder it, it works but its silent, im gonna make a trick to make it sound like a drum (should be nice to fill in on my speakers)

[FurreFurre]

@acfrazier Have a look at a regular speaker. It requires only minimal movement to produce sound. Here, the arm is tensed to the harddrive casing forcing the whole harddrive to vibrate. The vibrations are then amplified by the shelf the harddrives are positioned on.

[Imprezaman555]

joke:

how do you turn a hacker into a audiophile?

answer, you're watching it!

[robot797]

please tell how did you make them

[AlecTeal]

to be honnist from the three ive made (vids pending) its they are fine with low amplitude (no big currents) and high frequencies, this is not a high suiatbility set of hard drive speekers, he's just split them

[FOTPFan]

the arm on my drive worked as a speaker for about 5 seconds, now it just twitches for a few seconds, then the whole drive turns off, including the arm. Any suggestions, should I remove the board on the other side of the drive?

[renekenshin6573]

@FOTPFan Try removing the logic board (the circuit board on the bottom of the drive) as this could be shorting out the audio signal or its overloading your amplifier or audio source.

[FurreFurre]

@ALCAwesomeness

Not fake, but possibly gay...

Just google on how to make your own and you'll see that it works fine :)

[Dawid4Real]

can you explain how this works?

[FurreFurre]

@Dawid4Real

If you scroll down, to the bottom there is an explanation already.

[alistairstuart2009]

@Dawid4Real hard drives use a coil of wire around a magnet, when power goes into the wire it moves the head, this is prity much the same thing as on a speaker so it works

[tistatos]

just made my first hdd speaker, if i connect the spindle motor, will i get better sound?

[FurreFurre]

@tistatos

You will not, it will only add noice.

What you need to do instead is to control the tension on the reading arm so that it will not move all over the place, as this also creates bad sound.

[AlecTeal]

@tistatos depends, the spindle motor is often low resitance, basically a short curcuit, decent amps will cut off (self preservation) other's will heat up. be carful with any speaker acting as a full range that when mesure has a restance of less then 3 ohmes

[ScottieNiven]

I am so going to do this!!! And i will probbally use the same song.

[arktikgraywolf]

Nice tune. Brings back a bit.

[IlllIIIllllIIIIIllll]

Thanks for posting which song it is :-)

[massari4u]

@IlllIIIllllIIIIIllll

PPK - Resurrection

[ddggttff3]

What song is that? and kool! I plan on trying this with a laptop HDD I had die on me.

[FurreFurre]

The song is in the title ;) "PPK - Resurrection"

[schwartzerritter]

wow nice

[dodgeman676]

FAKE !

[FurreFurre]

Hello.

This as explained many times before, they are indeed real, the disc it not spinning but it is the arm that is making the movement, hence the sound. Read up on how speakers actually work and you will find that both contains a coil and a magnet.

[molinobeer]

the HD arm are moved by galvos?

[FurreFurre]

Im not sure what "galvos" is unfortunately

[molinobeer]

galvanometer...

[xzxzxz88]

oO how it works?

[derschwarzgeist]

Actually, it isn't visibly moving at all, even though I didn't lock it into place. I was just assuming that it was some part of the read-write arm vibrating that was what produced the sound.

[FurreFurre]

It is, but the movement is too small and too quick, basicly by tensing it into the casing, you get the whole HD to vibrate in the frequencies, giving much better sound than just the arm vibrating.

[derschwarzgeist]

I made one today and it works and all (albeit rather quiet), but I have a question. Is the arm supposed to be vibrating vertically (perpendicular to the platters) or horizontally (parallel to the platters)?

[FurreFurre]

Neither, if it is vibrating you havnt tensed it down enough on the harddrive. Try using a screw and washer somewhere to be able to adjust the tension of it. You can see how Ive done on the right harddrive at the bottom right, there you can see the screw and washer I use :)

[hemii13]

hey what would happen if u hooked it up to the subwoofer

[gunx07]

there fake there not spinning

[FurreFurre]

They are not fake. Having the discs spinning would just create alot of unwanted noise. Read up on how speakers work and read the comments below on how I did to make it work and you'll understand the principle of it, its very easy.

[richardmaudsley77]

Idiot, why would they have to spin when they are only functioning as speaker cones?

[InSaneTK]

the sound isn't coming from the disc, it's the search arm that vibrates back and forth that creates the sound Gunx07

[nformby]

I'll swap you these for my KEF iQ10s. lol

[asnagangur]

how did you get them to play so loud?

[FurreFurre]

Hello.

The reason the sound is loud and clear is that the arm is almost compleatly locked in position with a plastic washer and a screw, which makes the whole HD vibrate to the sound, instead of just the arm. This makes the sound alot louder and if used ontop of a table or similar, much better quality of the sound too.

[mechfeist15]

did you lock the pivot or the head on to the platter

[FurreFurre]

The head is tensed against the platter but not locked on it, it is however locked with a screw into the casing of the HD. Basicly instead of having the readingarm vibrating at slow frequencies like others do, mine is locked so that it only vibrates at high frequencies that are within the hearing range.

[Cabroni2]

lol  FastTracker2 HDD

[coondogtheman1234]

I need to make a new hard drive speaker video its been awhile, what song should I use? im thinking of playing the scatman by scatman john

[lilgeezup]

SONG PLZ......THNX

[FurreFurre]

Forgot to read the topic? :)

Song is " PPK - Resurrection "

[Messerschmitt262a2a]

the right one looks like a seagate

[FurreFurre]

Correct, both are infact ;)

[truwarrior2007]

how did you make it

[FurreFurre]

Its quite easy. Just get two wires and a broken harddrive. Open the harddrive and figure out which solderpoints goes to the arms coil, then solder your wires onto it and connect it to your amplifier.

[TigerSlashX]

LOL the arm and the disk aren't moving!

[FurreFurre]

The disc isnt moving since it just create unwanted noices.

However, the arm is moving but maybe just 0.25 mm back and forth. The reason is that the less movement, the better sound you get.

Just try comparing mine with one that do have the arm moving more.

[redtails]

Just like with a speaker, the louder the sound the more the arm has to move. Your strategy of generating sound is by playing it as soft as possible, much like an LP needle, instead of trying to play it loud which will sound more like a squeeky cellphone

[thedcase]

how does it work, what is vibrating what

[FurreFurre]

Basicly you got most of the elements of a speaker in a harddrive, especially the most important features: Coil and strong magnets.

What will happen is that the coil will be moving, and the rest of the structure acting as a resonator. I hope I got that right ^^

[PrototypeZZ]

awesome... :D

[sjwallace767]

why would u do this? haha

[FurreFurre]

Im not compleatly sure, probably becuase it's do-able? :)

[EAGarcia8]

with the slowly dissapearing "liberty" of the united states.... "because we can" would be the right answer. =)

[LoveMeNeverMore]

tight heh

[newton3010]

I read the title but dont know exactly what you did here. did you put speakers in the drives? or did you some how make the drives into speakers?

[FurreFurre]

Well, its quite easy, just solder to cables to the coil in the harddrive, and connect it to an amplifier and you get sound :)

[n0xAn]

är den bra bas o sååå

[vibraloop]

skämtar du? :D