Amazon Fire TV Cube Front Facing Speaker Horn

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<p>The sound of the Amazon Fire TV Cube is the weakest of any of the Alexa-enabled Amazon products. I suspect it's because the Cube is designed to have the power of the connected TV and/or AV home theater system at it's disposal for playing music etc, so they skimped out hard on the crappy buitin speaker and unlike the full-sounding Dot, the Cube doesn't have an AUX jack for connecting an external speaker.</p> <p>Even with volume at max, our Cube was hard to hear with the down-firing speaker resonating on the wooden shelf, and since we don't require sound to the sides or rear of the unit, I whipped this horn stand up for the Cube in OpenSCAD and the improvement is astonishing. Here's a sample of the difference:</p> <p> <figure class="media"> <oembed url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmVLnapNwdc"></oembed> </figure> </p> <p>I've included the OpenSCAD source in case anyone wants/needs a stand that exits the side or bottom you can modify the design to your needs.</p> <p>Enjoy !</p> <p>-=dave</p> <h3>Print instructions</h3><p>Unassociated tags: amazon alexa, amazon fire, fire tv, fire tv cube, horn speaker</p> <h3>Category: Audio Summary</h3> <p>The sound of the Amazon Fire TV Cube is the weakest of any of the Alexa-enabled Amazon products. I suspect it's because the Cube is designed to have the power of the connected TV and/or AV home theater system at it's disposal for playing music etc, so they skimped out hard on the crappy buitin speaker and unlike the full-sounding Dot, the Cube doesn't have an AUX jack for connecting an external speaker.</p> <p>Even with volume at max, our Cube was hard to hear with the down-firing speaker resonating on the wooden shelf, and since we don't require sound to the sides or rear of the unit, I whipped this horn stand up for the Cube in OpenSCAD and the improvement is astonishing. Here's a sample of the difference:</p> <p> <figure class="media"> <oembed url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmVLnapNwdc"></oembed> </figure> </p> <p>I've included the OpenSCAD source in case anyone wants/needs a stand that exits the side or bottom you can modify the design to your needs.</p> <p>Enjoy !</p> <p>-=dave</p> <h3> Print Settings</h3> <p><strong>Printer Brand:</strong> Prusa</p> <p><strong>Printer:</strong> i3 MK3</p>