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Title: 2 x8 or 10" recomendations?
Post by: stingray_65 on January 20, 2010, 10:36:42 pm

Hi guy's

I'm almost done building a 5F2-A in a head cab for a great friend, has a stancore OT marked 4000 primary and 8 ohm secondary

I am building this as a gift  and he's since seen it before it's done and  has asked that I build a speaker cab with it also.

catch is he's pretty much decided the speaker cab's dimentions for me (has to fit  between his bed and a night stand and put the head at such a level yada yada yada)


OK so the inside measurments on the speaker cab is 12 1/2" tall 16 1/2" wide 7 3/4 deep.

carcas is made from 3/4 baltic birch and the speaker baffle is 1/2 baltic birch , the back is 2 pieces of 1/2 baltic birch that I'll decide later if I want a closed back, ported or open back

SO with that information, what size speakers would you reccomend, I've considered 2x8 either 16ohm parallel or 4 ohm series,  1x10 or maybe a 12?

I think a 12 in a box that small would sound boxy, I could be wrong

any help here would be a Godsend to me


Thanks

Title: Re: 2 x8 or 10" recomendations?
Post by: thermion on January 21, 2010, 01:32:26 pm

check this out:
http://www.homerecordingconnection.com/news.php?action=view_story&id=32
looks like you're on the line between 8 and 10 (without knowing Q and V values for the speaker you want to use).
i'd go with a 10. i've not been impressed with many 8's as a stand-alone speaker.

Title: Re: 2 x8 or 10" recomendations?
Post by: stingray_65 on January 21, 2010, 09:56:12 pm

I guess I was thinking about the same thing, a 10" would be better.

it's just I HAD two great little 8's until I stuck my thumb thru the cone of a 1968 CTS while trying to catch it as it fell off my bench, seems the srewdriver was kind of stuck to the magnet :embarrassed:.

so I started looking for a replacement online and realized I could get a decent single 10" for about the same cost.

so I suppose I needed the nudge to abandon my original faulted plan

thnx

Title: Re: 2 x8 or 10" recomendations?
Post by: Direwolf on March 28, 2010, 03:34:44 am

I have a 10" Eminence Ragin' Cajun in an old Marshall cab (Micro Stack). It sounds great and only costs about $65-70. It's rated at 70 watts and I think 100db SPL. I'm building a 1x10 detuned cab for it right now and that'll make it sound even better!