We have a great-sounding speaker in our house that we use with our Echo Dot. OK, I’m exaggerating when I say it’s ugly, but it just doesn’t go with our house.
There’s really no reason for me to tolerate this aesthetic mediocrity with a Glowforge around. So, I made a fake, retro radio cover for the whole setup. It’s mostly PG Medium Walnut. We got a cheap sparkly fabric remnant for the grill. The dial art is sandwiched between two pieces of PG clear acrylic. The knobs are painted soda bottle caps. I used gold Rub and Buff in the engraves.
That’s awesome. I am looking at the doing something similar! I working on designing an old school boom box from the 80’s and I am going to embed the Echo dot in the center. I can’t wait to share my design.
I was concerned about that so I used very sheer fabric on the grill. There is a slight difference in sound; a tiny reduction in volume. Strangely, it isn’t muddy or muffled. Sounds good!
