Since I was ordering other items anyway, I somehow came across these from Toucah:
Panasonic Best Speaker? OK, why not? I ordered 2 as it looks larger in the photo, and well yes those are big. Installed 1 in my Abrams and I'd say there's 1/2 inch between the hull sides and the edges of the speaker box. It does not sit on the bottom of the hull due to the plastic gusseting inside, but it does sit on top of my wheel weights and the top of the box is about level with the top of the lower hull. Just barely fits.
Sound quality is indeed good. With the Abrams, I'd always had a hard time hearing the machine gun over the engine sound; with this speaker the machine gun is much clearer and easily heard over the engine. The engine sounds about the same. When I say "sounds the same", what I mean is that the tone (bass, mid, treble) is similar to the original speaker; it doesn't seem to reproduce the engine noise with too much treble or too much bass and it does not sound muffled. This tank still has the 7.0 board in it though. Volume is better, the larger speaker cone area does produce louder volume; we generally run full volume outdoors
Due to the size... I don't know that it will fit very well in a lot of models. We are either going to put the other one in a Leopard, or maybe a Tiger 1, depending on what my daughter decides. To me, it sounds like the speaker in the Tiger 1 is already starting to blow out so that will probably be a good candidate for this unit if it fits.
Clay
Panasonic Best Speaker? OK, why not? I ordered 2 as it looks larger in the photo, and well yes those are big. Installed 1 in my Abrams and I'd say there's 1/2 inch between the hull sides and the edges of the speaker box. It does not sit on the bottom of the hull due to the plastic gusseting inside, but it does sit on top of my wheel weights and the top of the box is about level with the top of the lower hull. Just barely fits.
Sound quality is indeed good. With the Abrams, I'd always had a hard time hearing the machine gun over the engine sound; with this speaker the machine gun is much clearer and easily heard over the engine. The engine sounds about the same. When I say "sounds the same", what I mean is that the tone (bass, mid, treble) is similar to the original speaker; it doesn't seem to reproduce the engine noise with too much treble or too much bass and it does not sound muffled. This tank still has the 7.0 board in it though. Volume is better, the larger speaker cone area does produce louder volume; we generally run full volume outdoors
Due to the size... I don't know that it will fit very well in a lot of models. We are either going to put the other one in a Leopard, or maybe a Tiger 1, depending on what my daughter decides. To me, it sounds like the speaker in the Tiger 1 is already starting to blow out so that will probably be a good candidate for this unit if it fits.
Clay
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