If you don't fancy doing this project, here's something you could just buy from Amazon instead that's pretty much the same: amzn.to/2iqQSo7

@Toalettduck

5 жыл бұрын

Man, few days ago I saved a speaker like this from the trashcan thinking I could do something with it! :)

@pinkiypanchal2192

4 жыл бұрын

Hiyourisname

@pinkiypanchal2192

4 жыл бұрын

Hi

@realcartoongirl

4 жыл бұрын

hi

Thanks for the complements! :) One of the reasons I keep going with these videos is because the audience is so positive and friendly (most of the time).

@KamranKhan-ew2yd

2 жыл бұрын

I have speakers that are powered from wall socket (AC). Can I cut there wire and add a USB head to them to power them from my PCs USB port or is it not so simple? Please help. PS awesome video, love your channel.

@vgambikai1931

2 жыл бұрын

@@KamranKhan-ew2yd u cannot just add a USB cable as ur speaker would contain rectifier circuits and transformers first you have to remove them

Incredible to watch this today and see just how far you've come, in terms of both project scope and the production values of the videos. I've got so many projects I'm inspired to work on, so thank you for doing what you do.

dude! i was just watching one of your recent videos and got this vague memory of watching you yeeears ago converting some sony ericsson speakers... and it turns out it was actually you! my converted speakers are still going strong after all these years. legend!

@DIYPerks

2 жыл бұрын

Haha, nice one! The speakers fetured here are still around and used occasionally, too!

Recent comment that's not over 5 years old. Good video, and shows that you've come a long way in the quality of the projects and videos.

Excellent tutorial, I found an old set of these speakers the other day and was planning on doing this to them. I found your video and followed your steps, it worked perfect first time! Thanks a million mate, this little mod is after saving me the cost of buying new portable speakers! Thumbs up!!

Haha I like that when you noticed your reflection, you waved! Love your videos BTW Matt!

I have to say your DIY are the best among all those I have seen. Well shot, edited, explained, edited.. No rubbish, Just pure DIY. (And I think few snapshots of layout will only add to already great video) And thanks for your awesome videos and replies.

Fantastic! :) I hope you enjoy using them as USB speakers!

Good to see your soldering has got better over the years.

I followed your guide and successfully converted my speakers. These little things really sound great. Thank you. Btw, great videos on your channel. Keep up the good work.

This is a fun and easy project to get people used to doing soldering and electrical jobs… great job. Thanks.

Excellent video! My old MPS-70 speakers were just laying around collecting dust, and I didn't want to throw them away because I always thought they sounded awesome for speakers of their size. Now I have converted them using this video and use them with my laptop and with my new phone. In the latter case I just stick the USB cable in a 5V (5W) adapter which I had since earlier and plug it into the wall socket. I'm definitely bringing these babies with me out to the cabin this weekend. Thanks!

Thank you for this tutorial! I thought i will not have any use form these speakers, and now you proved me wrong!

You are one of my favorite youtuber & i am pleasantly surprised to see this video as i had these laying around & was looking to convert them to audio jack Thanks for instructions & keep up the good work 👍

Finally I was able get my hand on one of these and mod them accordingly ^^ Worked like a charm though I think the USB cable I used has a cable break. Everytime I touch the USB cable the power gets lost for a split second. Will just replace the USB cable and all is perfect :) Thanks for this cool tutorial.

Thanks for the video! I managed to convert the MPS-70 into 3.5mm + USB speakers. Sounds so good in a small package. Great on my Acer Iconia A500 Tablet as it has a full-size USB port already.

Wow, I've already watched lots of the newer content on this channel and now I randomly found you again when looking for these speakers! 😀 (I was searching for a 3d printable grill for them to prevent my son from damaging the membranes.) My grandfather did this mod for me probably around the same time as this video was released, when I replaced my Sony Ericsson W580i with a Sony Xperia Go in 2012. 🙂

Amazing stuff, just what I needed. Thanks a bunch!

Works flawlessly! Now listening to the video through them! Thanks!

I did this a few days ago but used the jack, button, and microphone from a pair of smart phone headphones. I haven't used the speakers much so far but they work pretty well and provide decent sound powered by a 10,000 mAH battery pack/charger. Total cost was less than $20 with the added bonus of putting soldering skills developed long ago as a calibration specialist and biomedical equipment tech to use after many years of neglect. Tip: don't count on the rosin core from the solder. A light coat of flux from a lead-free plumbing repair kit on the wires made tinning and soldering very quick. I squeezed out a bit and dragged the wire ends through the flux and when touched to the iron the solder wicked right into the wire. The ear bud wire strands were individually coated but a bit of flux and bead of solder on the iron quickly dealt with the coating.

@tekwyzrd

10 жыл бұрын

The price of the speakers, solder, shrink tubing, and headphones was less than $20. This price did not include the power pack.

I will look into it.

The process of converting the MS-410's should be very similar (same contacts etc), but I expect that its connector is mounted directly onto a PCB, rather than wires, so the challenge would be soldering your usb connections etc to it. The only way to find out would be to open it up, and Sony's stuff is usually quite hard to get into.

Wow, a 10 year old video helps me today xD I now wanna rebuild my MPS-70 to a bluetooth box and I hoped to find the pin-out detail in your vid ^^

I love your videos, even the old ones.

Great job! I've been looking for this for a while and your video is the best.

I did the same mod with the first of these type of Ericsson speakers. Good as mobile speakers, especially if you also have a batterybank to use along with your smartphone or music player.

bruh what a good idea, I actually just salvaged the amps and made another project, but I will definitelly try to do this as soon as I get one of these speakers

i was about to throw the speakers, decided to googled about converting it and found this. Awesome video

A 9 years ago video with this incredible quality.. wow i'm speechless

Thanks ... my MPS-70 was long time lay in shelf .... BUT today I connect with pigtail of USB and 3,5 jack ... AND SOUND WELL .... thanks for your DIY step by step ... I dont buy new but repair old ones. Thanks again ... (y)

Oh didn't realise. I've got the MPS-60 which are have the amp in the connector part rather than one of the speakers. Thanks for your help!

Thank you, nice tutorial and it's working without problem!

I did it and works simply great! Thank you!!

I love this sound though Nice job Matt

I like this! It's perfect! thank u for this work. Excellent Video! Greetings from Colombia! my BRO

Thanks man :D I'm gonna do this and if they go loud enough I'm gonna fit them to my motorcycle.

Thank you. I have these. and i fortunately i see this video. Awesome.

Thank's so much for this quick video. It´s very helpful.

You are very welcome :)

thank you very much !! it's so great tutorial and my old speakers are like brand new :)

Only if the device has the ability to give power from its micro usb connection. I doubt many devices do (though my Nokia N900 does), but some Apple products have the option. You could of course hardwire it directly to the phone's battery connections...

To power the speakers from a battery, just get three AA batteries in series (no more than three, and you'll probably need a battery holder) and attach the black cable to the - side of the batteries, and the red cable to the + side of the batteries. :)

You can indeed!

Running from batteries is fine, as the voltage range of the amp is something like 3.7v - 5.7v. Great way to listen to music from a phone or MP3 player, where no usb port is available.

Great video. Very helpful. Works like a dream.

Great sound for the money invested. Can be used as travel speakers for laptop and phone. Important is to use a good quality USB cable and jack. If you use some cheap cables it might not work, it happent to me, cheap wiring bad signal or not at all!

Yes, but only if your smartphone has the option to output power over its usb port. Many do, so it's worth looking into.

Hey thanks! that was just what I needed!!! big hug bro!

Very nice tutorial! Great job!

Only that you ought to check the left and right wiring, and maybe the jack you used. :)

I need this video for long time thanks yor videos are good maybel

guess what? i have the exact speakers back in the days except it has a gray face plate. i followed the wiring diagram here and it works awesome! it's a good thing i kept it since these tiny speakers sound decent and so loud 😀

The sound is quite good thanks

There are some basic unspoken 'rules' in that usually black is ground, red is live etc, but that's all. You can usually find out what colour wires do what by looking at the circuit board, and trying to figure it out that way.

Well, you could... but you'd still need to power the speakers with a battery or even the smarphone itself (if it has a 3.3v power output, like the iphone).

You should be able to, yes. The wiring will probably be slightly different than the MPS-70 speakers, though.

Fantastic! :)

You'd have to be a lot more specific than that :) do you mean passive 'bookshelf' speakers that work with most hi-fi players? If so, you could just add a jack to the wires (combine the ground signals) and just attach them directly. That's what I've done with my PC and the sound quality blows away any 'active pc speakers' you can buy in the shops.

Thanks dude, your videos are awesome, you should make more. Have fun :)

awesome to see videos where you started from! I wonder if you can do this to convert it to USB-C, without using any other connection for power supply :)

You'll have to find a hardware store or something. Ebay is also a great place to buy it from.

OMGGG IT WORKS - i done this, wooohooo video could have beeen slower though, iit was hard to keep up wid u

Hello, there is no advantage to directly accessing the PCB as the wires go directly to it anyway, so there is no difference in sound quality. It's perfect quality stereo, and sounds fantastic. :)

This is really good. I want to change my stereo speakers USB and outlet. I just dont know how..

Do you mean "heat-shrink"? It's available at most electronic shops (although I got mine from ebay) :) very cheap but very useful.

This video is useful! I´m trying the about and this about it works! Thanks for make the about!!!!!!!! :)

Thanks for the video.

i remember those, they got preety good quality

I've made it with my own sony speakers, thanks!

Came here for learn some tricks by this legend

@I_killed_that_beard_guy

3 жыл бұрын

Right choice

Time to revive my old mps-70s....

So Clear!! thanks!! I' ll try...

I did something like this last year only I added in the option to switch between a 9v battery and a USB connection. It does work with a 9v battery

Awesome. Great video

I recognize that pilot of old good AIWA HI-Fi system ;) I have almost the same pilot from a little older NSX TR-99 model than Yours ;) Greetings!

thank you very much, it works perfectly :D

great video.question if i wanted to make it blue tooth can this process be made or no? will u make a video on how to make any speaker blue tooth with the amp as ur other video adding components like headphones,like the boom box u made but just with more stuff lol ur videos are awesome and i can understand everything in ur step by steps ..nice work

Hey this vid is pretty useful and well done!!

if you do this mod you can use one of those portable phone chargers (which are essentially batteries with a usb port) to use it with your phone/tablet/mp3player etc.. on the go

Nice Video About Speakers!!!

Dobra robota. Good job.

I had done this myself over 3 years ago - only difference being that I initially used a 9v battery. I eventually made a USB cable with a 9v battery connector on the end.

My sister just found hers and we were wondering if we could turn them to be useful again, thanks!

Yes, be careful of that if you try this build. The wire is rubbery, and incredibly difficult to strip cleanly. I tried 3 times, each time nicking the wires. Easy enough to fix with some electrical tape, though, so it wasn't really an issue.

Very brilliant

Not really usb speakers, but usb-powered. If you buy one of those small usb audio adapters, you can make it so you only need to plug in the usb cable into computer. Basically, those speakers(audio card really) would appear as a separate audio device to the system.

@NoTaboos

6 жыл бұрын

But there would still be no connection to the amplifier in the speakers?

@lsrocha3296

4 жыл бұрын

Hi. Could you give an example of such USB Audio adaptor that you speak of? Sorry, noobie here...

Thank you

The best USB speakers in the world :)

It needs the USB connector for the power, while the audio comes in through the 3.5mm jack. To make it 100% USB operated would require some kind of USB audio interface.

Try going through all the connections again, and making sure you've got them right. But first, check that the volume on the device you're plugging it into is at full.

Thanks so much, i'll try. :)

thanks for the video

Hello dude i just watch your video it really helpful wanna ask you something

@Slendermannhn

2 жыл бұрын

Why does my speaker is not so loud this speaker came from the flatscreen tv speaker

Gracias!!! buen video!!

haha, i did this few years ago and they work awesome even now, really nice speakers for a laptop

thank , very useful!

Thanks!!

i turned a set of these onto a headphone amp when i was in high school, because the wire for the 'end' speaker got damaged and the amp circuit was in the speaker that is on the end of (as you call) the 'input' wire, taking out the driver and adding a 3.5mm socket turned it into a freaking loud headphone amp, put it this way, it got so loud i could feel the in ear headphones get hot in my ear and surprisingly didnt distort at half volume on the phone because thats the max you could go without blowing headphones or ear drums.

Thanks!