Ghetto Headphone "Amp"

Step 4 Earbud holder and other ideas

So now we need to figure out a way to hold the earbud in position to achieve a little bit of a sound boost. I used a small peice of cardboard from the extra triangle we cut in an earlier step. place the cardboard in the "groove" formed by the two folded flaps that you taped together. Once this peice is in position, it's possible to place an earbud into the "amp" (I use the word amp loosely in this howto :P). The cable will tuck nicely between the flaps where they were taped (if you avoid taping right to the very end of the carboard the cable will fit). The flaps will pinch the cable if you taped them tight enough and the earbud should sit snugly. Try to place it so that there is a little room around the earbud for sound to bounce off the cardboard and reflect.

Now that you have one, make two! or just play around with one, check the pictures for my finished products.

Again I stress that this is not a replacement for even half decent laptop speakers, its simply a trick for when you'd like others to hear what you have on your music player etc in a group setting. Another good use I found was for music at night, I listen to plenty of music and this provided the right volume and I could keep it right next to my bed (where I charge my ipod). Usually I use these at around 70-80% volume.

Enjoy, and please toss up some suggestions if anyone comes up with better working results, after all I posted it here for feedback.

Comments

[domokunrox]

i tried making this, and it didnt work. Any idea why??

[Johnnymo88]

This was a great time killer and it saved me a bunch of money!