What can be made from an old music center

Every average person still has old stereos from the nineties and two thousand. Why spend money on buying new computer speakers or Bluetooth speakers when you can use the old speaker system in different variations.

Making a modern music device out of an old music center

Car acoustics. How to make it?

1. We take out the old stereo system from the storage room and take the speakers from it.
2. We find an amplifier in the car (if it is missing, turn off the rear speakers), thoroughly strip the wires on the old speakers, it is important not to confuse the polarities, and connect.
3. The sound from the old speakers from the center is much louder and better quality than ordinary car mugs, some of them will replace the subwoofer, the main thing is not to burn it or turn the music volume up to maximum. You'll have to find the best option for setting the volume so that it doesn't gurgle.

The disadvantage of this assembly is the short service life and the likelihood that the speakers will burn out.

Universal Bluetooth speaker system. How to collect it?

1. To make it, we take an old stereo system and buy a Bluetooth adapter with an aux or a standard 3.5 mm jack.
2. It all depends on the inputs on your speaker system. The price of adapters varies between two hundred and five hundred rubles.
3. It is important to choose the right adapters so that you do not have to solder them in the future.
4. We connect Bluetooth to our music center, set up a computer, laptop, smartphone.

This assembly is perfect for an apartment. You can take the device with you to your country house by connecting your smartphone. In the car, you can connect a Bluetooth adapter to the radio and listen to music directly from the Internet via a smartphone (mobile phone).

This is the most ideal option in terms of price, sound quality, ease of connection and versatility (USB receivers need to be soldered in, running around with flash drives, so I don’t recommend it).

Making columns for the “control panel”

Important! All work on the equipment must be carried out by turning it off from the power supply.

This section describes the most inexpensive and multifunctional method of resuscitating your old music center, which is suitable for a “control panel”.

1. Everything is very simple: we buy simple wired adapters - one end with a standard headphone jack, the other with tulips or an aux connector. It all depends on the ports of your music system.
2. With this adapter you can connect a TV, desktop computer, laptop, smartphone, DVD, or any sound-reproducing device that is available.
3. The downside is the extra wires.
4. You can think of many ways to arrange old equipment. There are many options, I will describe the most optimal one. We take the head, separate and throw out the cassette reverses and the CD block. All that remains is the amplifier and the motherboard, to which we will mount the available modules.
5. We make a new case to match the color of our furniture (we do the same with the speakers), advice on the material is 80 mm plywood. (it will be two to three times more compact).

That's all! The old music center will still be useful to you.