CMI/IUPUI Speaker Restoration Project: InDIYana 2018

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In less than a week, you’ll be able to come and listen to our refurbished speaker live as our performers play through the Speaker-less set. As we continue to rehearse through our set, however, our speaker went on a little field trip to InDIYana 2018 with Keher Neote, our student electrical engineer on the project.

InDIYana is a casual event of speaker enthusiasts who build and show off speakers of their own design every year in Fort Wayne. The theme of this year’s event was “Keeping Up With the Jones’s” in honor of Andrew Jones, designer of the famous Reference One speakers for Technical Audio Devices Laboratories Inc. in the 2000s. The idea is to showcase coaxial speakers at a budget price, and designers can compete with each other to see who has the best design. Keher’s goal, however, was only to explain his work on the speaker as well as show off how good it sounds even 60 years past its date of manufacture.




            
The experience was overall very positive for everyone involved, particularly with the surprise visit from Andrew Jones himself who was not expected to attend the event. Keher explained to me that instead of a more formal conference setting, the event felt more like a technical get-together of highly skilled speaker designers who share techniques and ideas with each other every year. Overall, he had a great experience showing off our speaker there, and I’m glad we were able to spread the word of it beyond just Indianapolis.

For more on InDIYana, their website is here. You can see all the other speakers hand-made by other designers at the event.


Our concert is fast approaching, and we hope you come down to see us at Square Cat Vinyl on Monday, May 7th at 8 pm. A lot of work has gone into this project, and we’re very excited to show you what we’ve come up with to show off the capabilities of this speaker.

-Kat


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