So I thought I’d try one of these powered speaker boxes & even though this turned into to something more expensive, it was worth it for me. If this helps one person save some money or create a speaker box like no other then, I’m content with that…
As soon as I received this speaker box I went about disassembling the unit, the wires coming out of the middle don’t work for me as I need them along the sides of the box, just a simple modification. However, once I removed the ~24 phillips head screws, I was severely disappointed, the board for the amp is bolted to the back of one of the speakers & you have simple pigtails running to the other speaker. the worst parts was there were wires soldered directly to the header pins on the amp pcb & then hot glued in place!!! the LED power wires are the same way. another thing thats really confusing is why on earth would you use crimp spade connectors & then go back & solder them to the speaker terminals?!?! Sadly when I removed the solder, I am positive it was not lead-free solder used. All of this makes me wonder if this was a returned item or a product that needed to be reworked at the factory? In either case, it’s a poor, cheap assembly of a finely engineered product…. Shame on Planet Audio, there’s really no excuse for something like this.
After getting my fill of all the corners that were cut in the assembly of the speaker, I realized a fee things. Inside the box there’s nut inserts in the bolt pattern of the amp that’s screwed to the back of the speaker, even better is there’s one on each side of the box. So in reality you could have an amp for each side/driver & wouldn’t need to the pigtails running to the other side!!…