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I know why people like 12" drivers, but the market seems to be saturated with them. Like @nekomatic says I think people are scared away from 15" by the marketing around dispersion, which is silly because a cabinet with a 15" can have as good a dispersion as any other sized woofer. RCF have the 15" ART-945A as having 100° coverage, which could mean anything, but crucially it's the same as their 12" ART-932A. Not cheap though.

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Trust me, you will notice the lag, and it will be a major distraction. I think some Bluetooth codecs offer low latency. AptX from a quick Google says it's less than 40 milliseconds. That's still too much in my book. I think things like laptops measure the latency for Bluetooth and delay things like videos so they sync up with the audio. If they didn't you'd know all about it!

Genelecs in terms of form factor! I don't own a pair but I know someone who does and quite frankly I was astounded the amount of noise that came out of it. He played dance music in a hall. The Vox Amplug2 comment is just a nod that I accept that these speakers don't need to sound like the Genelecs. IIRC when the speaker was released Vox made noises that it was appropriate for bass practice, but they seem to have rowed that back now looking online. I can practise just fine on it: I just need to hear myself. However it distorts too easily, which is probably not helped that it's battery powered, and cheap, and nasty. A bass-specific combo with a single 4" driver exists in the form of the PJB X-4 combo. By my maths, a pair of 3" is bigger than a single 4" (4.5π > 4π), so it's not like it's impossible. Whether its 15kHz upper bound means anything is another matter. Thanks for the advice everyone. I will trawl GumTree for spare Altec Lansings at bargain basement prices, and rebuild the cabinet. Good idea Phil.

Doesn't fulfill my first use case 😁

Thanks @nekomatic. I did see those but 6" is too big for my desk. My current cheap-as-chips bookshelf speakers at 4.5" and they're already too big. I would love to get (even pay) for plans for something like this, although I suspect I'm not going to strike gold here. People doing this stuff will be looking for performance that I don't need, and will be prepared to spend levels of money that I don't have.

I wouldn't say no to a tweeter. Principal aims, in order of descending priority Bragging rights to say I've made it myself Dinky Not sucky performance. A frequency chart looking like the Himalayas is fine so long as there's not too much distortion at reasonable volumes (looking at you Vox Amplug Cab) and a smidgen of bass. I've looked on eBay and I reckon the second two criteria could be had within £20 or so. In fact if I ignored the first criterion and spent the same amount as I would have on a pair of AN3510s and some wood I probably could get something both compact and fairly decent and active. The Creative Pebble Pro has RGB lighting to boot Doesn't scratch the woodworking itch though.

I'll cut to the chase, I want something like the Genelec 8010a, but passive and not so eye-wateringly expensive. If you've seen my other threads, you'll know I have caught the bug about building my own cabinets. It's a lot of fun, so I'd like to make one here. Trouble is I am nowhere near the stage of designing my own enclosure or crossover. Use case: Bragging rights for building my own desktop speakers Gaming YouTube watching Very light bass practising. It has to be better than the Vox amplug2 cabinet, but not by much: I accept the compromise. It doesn't have to be as good sonically as the 8010a. It doesn't have to be quite as small as the 8010a, but it should be small enough to look reasonable either side of a 14" laptop. Is there a source of designs for this type of speaker? If not I'm currently eyeing up https://celestion.com/product/an3510/ as a single driver (no tweeter) in an easy sealed enclosure. Is that madness? Sensitivity seems rather low, but it's for me sat at my desk and I don't want to wake the neighbours. The Celestion is a little larger than the 3" speaker in the Vox, and I presume its xmax is orders of magnitude higher.

Assuming the following: You have a computer You have a Hi-Fi It is just for practice and doesn't need to be portable. You can do what I do: Guitar/bass into audio interface DAW/IR software for tone shaping Blending with external audio such as YouTube or Tidal Audio sent to Hifi via said audio interface As you'll be reusing existing kit you can probably do this for a good deal cheaper than other suggestions. An audio interface from a reputable manufacturer can be had for under £100, and you can easily pick up something usable for under £50.

My experience too. My issue with BA is that there doesn't seem to be a way to build up a basket over a long period. Most other sites call this a wishlist and frustratingly there looks to be the facility on BA, except I don't know how to use it! https://www.bluearan.co.uk//myaccount/myaccount.php?wishlist=view

Blue Aran looks to be a wonderful site that stocks many items that I like to buy. However, it's driving me absolutely insane, and I don't know if it's just me not understanding how it works or if there's just some setting that I need to tweak. If I go to the site, fill up my basket then immediately buy there and then there's no problem. The issue I have is that if I leave my basket too long it wipes its contents. Okay, that's irritating but prices may change etc, but I now have no way of knowing what was in my basket. How do I create a semi-permanent basket which I can fill up over the course of weeks? Aha, I see a Quote button in my basket which turns my ethereal basket into a permanent record. Sadly there is no way of turning a quote back into a basket for purchasing, and even worse the quote page you are shown gives you no link back to the items themselves, just a link to "Open a Help Ticket". Aha, there's a Favourite list down the left hand menu. Unfortunately I cannot see any way of adding items to this list. My current workflow is creating a file in Notepad and copy/pasting the URLs of the things that I want, then creating the basket at the last minute when I want to buy which is bonkers in this day and age. Is there some setting that I'm missing? I can see my basket number changes whenever it's emptied. I make a note of the basket number with the items in, and yes, I cannot seem to recover it even with that knowledge. I cannot imagine that this would fly in this day and age and perhaps there's some trick that I'm missing, which is why I'm asking here.

Lol, I wish I'd never uploaded that picture now 🤣

Port is on the bottom. Image from https://barefacedbass.com/product-range/one10.htm

I've played with an Encore that had the truss rod adjustment down by the pickups. It was a standard 6(?)mm hex bolt. I had to take the scratch plate off which was a real pain because I think the scratch plate could have a cutout to accommodate adjustments, but it doesn't. Back when I adjusted it I didn't know any better and thought you needed to take the strings off. In a sense you do: that's how you get the scratch plate off. However if you want to adjust with the tension of the strings that is possible: loosen the strings, take the scratch plate off and bring the strings back to pitch. It's really fiddly to adjust with the strings in place, but it's not impossible. Good luck is all I can say.

That's a building defect. I'm just mixing up the wood filler for that hole now.

I never thought my dirty laundry would get an airing on this forum....

How do I put the front baffle in and maintain an airtight seal? It was easy for the BC110T what with the brace all around the edge, but here there isn't that luxury. I have some clamps but I don't think anything appropriate to clamp down on all four sides while keeping it recessed and snug against the braces. I assume that this is a glue job in which case the box is essentially permanently sealed and interior access thereafter is through the woofer hole. Have I misunderstood the plans?

This looks lovely. Congratulations. I've always had half an eye on the BN12-300S. It is a crazy light woofer that doesn't go deep, which is fine by me as I aggresively use a HPF anyway.

My wife disagrees.

I've bought just one instrument at Thomann since B'xit (HB mandolin). It was broken. What on earth is going on with their quality control? As an aside, delivery was by UPS, who were awful. I received the email that they were going to deliver the day after they delivered it, and I was out. They just left it out on the front door. I also had to pay an outrageous fee, as in a take the p*ss administration fee that UPS just slapped on top of the duty charge and there was nowhere showing that they would do this before I bought the goods. Things are much better in that regard now. To Thomann's credit, they (eventually) sent another instrument. Guess they figured it was cheaper to just send a second instrument than receive and fix my broken one.

Thanks Stevie. For the record I contacted Blue Aran and they said that supply problems means they don't know if and when they'll get in any other colours of Tuffcab. Such a shame.

Really starting to get into the swing of this. One tip that I never saw anywhere because it's probably so obvious is that when you receive your wood, most likely there'll be a nice side and a crappy side, rough and dented. I made the mistake of drawing my cut lines on a good side. Such a rookie mistake. Also, when you're using a circular saw, be careful for a straight cut, but don't take too long or you'll burn the wood. Some more questions. @GlamBass74 has been a phenomenal help in DM, but I thought I'd ask for more opinions: Paint. Tuffcab comes in any colour so long as it's black. If I didn't want black, what are my options in Homebase or B&Q for a professional finish that, while not necessarily textured, protects the cabinet from dings and scrapes. Handle: I have a leather strap handle. What's the best way of finding the centre of mass of the box such that the handle is positioned optimally? I'm guessing leaning it on the edge of a table and marking when it's about to tip, but is there anything more precise that I'm missing?

I can only tell you of my own experience, but many years ago I marched into a music shop fully expecting to buy a Sandberg TM. To me it was obvious that the TM with the coil splitter would cover everything that the TT did, and then some. I sat down and played through the range of Sandbergs they had in stock. The TT with both pickups blended at different levels had tones that the TM couldn't match. I bought the TT instead and 12 or so years later and I still have that bass.

Don't, you'll go mad!

Ah, I see now, they're on the back. Line in technically doesn't need any gain, because it's receiving stuff at a standard line level. Your keyboard may well have a line-out option so you may just get away with the Motu for your needs.