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Sonic Impact Stick-On Speaker SoundPad Pair - 5029 | 
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| Brand: Sonic Impact
Category: CE
Buy New: $19.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Media: Electronics
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 3.3
MPN: 5029
Model: SoundPads
UPC: 648027050297
EAN: 0648027050297
ASIN: B0001HKVKQ
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Great for experimenting | | • | Perfectly portable |
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Product Description
SoundPads stick-on speakers convert and transfer sound to most high density thin walled surfaces you put them on. Converts poster art, bookcases, thin tables, door panels and ceiling tiles into permanent stereo speakers. You cannot get a better quality speaker for the price. Sound quality will vary from excellent to awesome depending on the surface you peel and stick them on. SoundPads let you literally feel the sound. They will blow your mind! Simply connect them as you would any conventional speaker to your existing stereo using the amplifier or tuner. Once attached they are permanent.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 4 more reviews...
 pretty cool September 15, 2008
they work like they say they do. can get really loud and can fit almost anywhere flat. i put them inside my jetski and one got soaked but it still works fine
Fun Toy March 28, 2008
These could be used as speakers in non-traditional ways (vibrate your car door panels instead of cutting holes for speakers, use your trash can for a speaker...), or you could use the them in a science project. Either way, for $20 they are fun to play with.
Make anything a speaker February 17, 2008
A fun project finding what these speaker pads can stick on to to turn it into a speaker. I found that my wood doors work great, but the best use is hooking it up to my sound system and attaching the speakers to the bottom of my pillow. Works Great.
Definitely fun stuff, but don't expect miracles October 1, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I bought these along with my first SI 5066, but bought them for very different purposes. I figured the SoundPads would be good for either a cheap pair of auxillary speakers or a few low-tech noisehound options for the home studio (I make funny noises with scads of gear and computers when I'm not teaching or listening to music). I was particularly intrigued to see if I could get a "weird" guitar speaker out of these (no, I don't use 50-watt tube amps)- haven't tried them yet for that purpose, but initial results are very promising.
I "sampled" them by pushing them loosely up against various materials and items I had sitting around. If you want to make a "hi-fi" speaker, I think a small cardboard box (the corrugated variety, a little bigger than a shoebox) would be optimal and yield the most normal-speaker-like results (SI seems to agree with this, since they either make or made a pair of cardboard speakers of similar size using the SoundPads as drivers). It does, however, sound a little "boxy." Rimshot, please. No, but seriously. It sounds boxy. And cute. Larger boxes do not work very well.
I had some 1/8" thick melamine material around that resembles a dry-erase / whiteboard - was not happy with those results (a little too heavy for these to push suitably). Ended up affixing them to a piece of 20x30 foamcore split in half, based on another review here (tried a full size piece too-- slightly better bass response, but a little less loud and much more impractical).
These things do in fact get pretty loud (I can hear at least 300Hz and up throughout my house without issue). However, the bass response seems to be strongly centered around the driver, at least on most of the materials I tried. This might also vary depending on how you've set up the material (I am thinking about playing with the foamcore partially inside another box). The overall frequency response is very much dependent on where the SoundPad itself is located. I would try and mount these *suspended* with the SoundPads aligned with ear level if I was going to use them for incidental speakers and mount them to a larger chunk of material.
The sound with the foamcore on the whole is akin to an extremely loud boombox. It's midrange-heavy and a bit harsh in the room if you do not have them at ear level, but still very interesting. You can hold or suspend the pieces of foam up parallel to each other on either side of you for the world's largest set of earphones, no earbands required. It's definitely an experience.
The only thing that makes me sad about these is they are meant to be permanently affixed to a surface-- the "attached adhesive" is not reusable. You could probably reaffix them with some care and creativity, and experimenting by simply holding them gently against a material gives you an idea of the sonic results that's approximately 85% of the way to the "affixed" result.
Poor man's Magnepans? Absolutely not. Fun? Yes. If you are looking for a $20-25 pair of utility speakers, well, you don't have many options... and these would in fact do better than most in that range (I agree with the reviewer who states that a hundred bucks would get you a better "real pair," especially on eBay armed with a little dangerous knowledge). I look forward to having some fun with these on the foamcore in the studio and think I will probably buy another pair in a couple months.
Hey, where's that sound coming from? June 8, 2007
These speakers are wonderful! They don't necesarily work with everything you'd think they would, but when you find something they do work on, they are great. I found that they best work on pieces of cardboard. lean them up against the wall and the space between creates a mini woofer for bass. If you want a cheap but great sounding pair of speakers, these are it!
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