They look cool, but keep in mind that these things would honestly sound like shit. The shape and material of the earbud plays a larger role in the sound quality than many people would expect, since reverberations inside the shell make it back into your ear and reflect the overall color of the sound. Since the casings are just hollow brass (which is bad for sound quality in the first place) and especially are not in an acoustically engineered shape, these might actually sound worse than a $5 pair you can buy at a grocery store.
But hey, they make a pretty nice fashion statement if you don't mind listening to plastic music. Not everyone is an audiophile I guess.
Several years ago, I had an empty howitzer casing. I used to talk in it to imitate Darth Vader's voice. Is the same happening with the smaller bullet casing, but at a much lower scale? If so, I can totally understand your concerns!
They look cool, but keep in mind that these things would honestly sound like shit. The shape and material of the earbud plays a larger role in the sound quality than many people would expect, since reverberations inside the shell make it back into your ear and reflect the overall color of the sound. Since the casings are just hollow brass (which is bad for sound quality in the first place) and especially are not in an acoustically engineered shape, these might actually sound worse than a $5 pair you can buy at a grocery store.
But hey, they make a pretty nice fashion statement if you don't mind listening to plastic music. Not everyone is an audiophile I guess.
Several years ago, I had an empty howitzer casing. I used to talk in it to imitate Darth Vader's voice. Is the same happening with the smaller bullet casing, but at a much lower scale? If so, I can totally understand your concerns!
That's pretty much exactly what happens.
This is exactly what I was going to say. OK, so, not exactly... you put it far more eloquently than I would've.
Luckily the earbuds were a 25$ pair of TDK EB760, so nothing of high fidelity was destroyed. Nice project anyway.