anyone ever tried upgrading their internal speakers for improved sound?

I was just thinking - the internal speakers in my laptop are probably $1 pieces of junk - has anyone tried replacing them with decent ones? I imagine for about $10 plus some soldering you could profoundly improve audio - anyone tried this before?
Personally I've got an i6000, not too bad on sound, but I'd be interested in hearing about upgrade mods.

 

Mine are awsome for laptop speakers, there just as good as my actual speakers if i turn the subwoofer off. I dont use the much but when i do there great.

 

even i'd like to know. can it be done?

 

Probably could replace them. Its just with the limited space it is pretty difficult to make speakers sound good. I actually ended up buying a saitek a100, which is pretty thin and small, but sounds really good for its size. I had purchased one of those folding speakers off ebay for $7 sometime ago and they work decent, but distort at louder volumes. Well the A100 doesn't distort, gets louder, and has a decent little amount of midbass/bass. It doesn't come with an AC adapter, but I was lucky since the small speakers I got off ebay came with one that works perfect for the A100.

I ended up getting the A100 for $3 shipped (some special deal). So you should be able to find it for $13 or so.

I honestly have no idea where you'd find really good speakers that are extremely thin and match the ohms/wattage rating of your old speakers. Think it'd be cheaper just to go with an external solution.

 

The answer to the question is yes it can be done. Will it get you the results you want? Might not. You need to find speakers that fit and are better, that could be a challenge. A lot of the sound problems are what is sent to the speaker, weak signal (saves battery) so upgrading the speaker itself might do nothing.