Yay! Holidays.... Sure boh?

Daily Digest of first day of holiday....

First day of holidays!

Yea, so basically a supposingly "long" holidays started. For this holidays, planned to do a project. So lets do it on first day of holidays!

I have a old Sony TV Woofer (Still sounded very good from an old 29" CRT TV). 15 Watts, at least better than any cheap speakers on LCD or Plamsa TV on market. It does really pump up some good low frequency sound (Bass). Initially, I opened up the whole woofer to tap the speaker's positive and negative connections with wires. And it's connected to my Micro Hi-Fi, which also served as my computer speakers.

The woofer on top of micro Hi-Fi.

View from front

However, the woofer sounded disappointing. The sound generated is considered inaudible from far / on top of my micro Hi-Fi. Unless you put it in front of you, then you can really get some good bass of it.

So? My TV, which is just opposite my computer... Yo, a really old 90's 14" CRT TV, not LCD / Plasma k? If not then happy till no need blog dy la... Sanyo CAP4012L, which still can be seen on some TARC busses.

Picture: still nice as its seldom used after it "migrated" to my room.

Sound: Mono-speaker system (That's really ok in the 90's but now = disappointing)

Sounded quite bad in terms of bass as it used only a "toy-speaker". So I decided to add this woofer to it. Hoping it will have an audible bass though.

After getting some simple tools, I opened the whole back cover of the TV. Just 4 screws! (TV nowadays = 2 screws but prepared to break open other connectors).

Obvious enough, the humungous space at the back is for the picture tube.

After giving the circuit board a good vacuum (Very free), realized a sticker patched on top right of TV tube. Sanyo - Warning!... (Not important) and...

Made by Samsung, Korea. Wow! A Japanese brand took their main stock from Korea? Funny but true. 90's wei, Japanese technology is the best at that time... Korea? Not heard before until today

With enough of exploration, I headed straight to the speaker. As expected, 2 wires popping out from the speaker. But what's even better is it has 2 long positive and negative plate for the speakers wires to be wrapped around it. Just as wished gua. No need to tap wires! I quickly inserted 2 connectors and screwed tight down to the plate.

Screwed the connectors with identified positive and negative connections

Screwed the wires

Returned it back to its original place

Now is the problem of getting the wires out of the box... I have no drill (Doubt i'll drill perfectly also). So searched for holes behind the TV. Spotted 2 weird shaped but small holes behind the TV. That's great! Just that its too small for my wire to go through. I stripped of the insulator and the core wires got through. Phew! (Notice that the green wire is just an extra). Tested with direct connection to the woofer straight away. It's just wow... The low and mid + high frequency just matched each other so harmonically. At least i'm able to get some bass when watching TV3 Cinema ok? lol. It sounded even better when I played CD with my 1996 Thomson VCD. (Yea, I agree all my media can be sent to museum dy.)

Stripped wires popping out from the back of TV

Perfected it by shortening the wires and inserted a connector to it

Now it's a lot neater now. Quickly secured the woofer wires and Voila! It's just great, great and great! Got my TV cover back to its position and done.

Sanyo + Sony = Twins?

It just sounded like I have a mini theatre system running on this TV. The bass volume is good and just nice. Just nicely sync with the mono 2W speaker tone. The longer I place my eyes on this TV, the more I like how it sounds. Very satisfied with this simple and great invention. Enjoying a 14" TV was never like this before in my life.

Now what? According to principles of GP........ Must always have conclusion le. Since Malaysia Day is around the corner, I shall stress the importance of Malaysia's independance. We shall appreciate what's now. And the easiest way? Supporting people like me! All customly "Made in Malaysia". Well, we shall really be proud of our country... Because...

We're Proudly Made in Malaysia!