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Here's the speaker in a band context. Same equipment; 1/2 volume, no digital changes made:

http://www.pearcey.biz/19.03.10_rehearsal/

Our rehearsal room has terrible acoustics; the band needs some work, but you get the idea.

Something to do while avoiding work and listening to the test match... I recorded some audio samples of my BFM O15TB and compared them with a Labsystems 410HPX ( http://www.labsystems.com.au/labsystems.htm ) - the Lab is a decent 4x10; weighs a ton, power handling 1000W RMS into 8 Ohm. RRP was $2100...

Harley I wish I'd seen that photo before I started!

question for bill...... in this picture the mouth opening for the 15" has two sections. the lower for the speaker and the upper for what? is there a port or opening i can't see? Basically the whole thing is open at the back - the diagonal piece of wood which acts as the 15" baffle doesn't...

I may not be answering your needs exactly, but I can't recommend my O15TB enough. I suppose it depends on what sound you want, and it does give a clear, defined sound (but also responds really well to Eq if you want to reduce the treble, whatever) I reckon as a sort of monitor/back up it would work ...

I used acoustic speaker cabinet felt from Cannon Sound: http://www.cannonsound.com.au/p/573395/acoustic-speaker-cabinet-felt.html It may well be re-branded underlay, but I spotted it while ordering the paint, and it seemed to be the right sort of stuff. I rather carelessly used the verb 'carpetted' ...

Outside painted with 2 coats of Rockard, external hardware on and inside carpeted (the latter an unexpectedly satisfying job): http://www.pearcey.biz/Workshop26.jpg Potential expensive driver-perforating 1 year old in shot: http://www.pearcey.biz/Workshop27.jpg Wiring in - put them on the cross brac...

Cheers - That worked perfectly; no rattling and expensive drivers still safe from small hands (and thrown beer bottles).

I used the Selley's "ultimate strength/platinum edition" glue. It's polyurethane, and seems to correspond to the PL pro otherwise - I got it from Bunnings, it's the most expensive of the Selley's glues. Holding together well so far. I made one mistake quite early on, and the glue was stron...

Basically finished this now - I've never soldered anything before, but it all seems to work OK. I've put an aluminium flyscreen-type sheet on the mid and bass baffles. This rattles annoyingly when I play a low B at volume. I don't often play a really loud low B, (C is as low as any of my current pla...

Primer on. The hardware shop only sold white primer, so I got that and coloured it grey with some black paint:

Finshed the woodwork part of it. Put the frame for the access panel on, and did some holes for hadware: http://www.pearcey.biz/Workshop20.jpg http://www.pearcey.biz/Workshop21.jpg And here's the panel. Probably not quite as good a fit as I would have liked, but had to do a bit of sanding to get it i...

Did a bit more work. The mid baffle and cone are on: http://www.pearcey.biz/Workshop13.JPG Front not sanded yet obviously: http://www.pearcey.biz/Workshop14.JPG http://www.pearcey.biz/Workshop15.JPG And then the internal bracing: http://www.pearcey.biz/Workshop16.JPG On the next picture you can see ...

Thanks Harley

I don't like to encourage that sort of thing, but that is actually quite funny and clever. It's even a 60-tooth blade!

I'm having another look for it when I'm back from Bali.