One done

One of the cabinets is finished. Looks better (I think) than the Mk1. Sounds OK through the first order Mk 1 crossover, but measurement and testing begins this afternoon.

Several lessons learned this time. First, don't use a light colored primer under the black spray on the front. The smallest scratch and it shows through. Second, make absolutely sure that joints are sealed. I discovered that the bass cab isn't air tight. The hole must be fairly small but it's enough. Whether this matters much I don't know yet.Another is don't use Duck masking tape to prevent the wood getting painted. It makes a real mess coming off leaving glue and bits of paper all over the wood. I've still got to figure out the painting. The red spray pain has left a fine stippled effect which is not what I wanted.  And I spent some much time sanding and priming and re-sanding and re-priming... 

This design uses two silver flute 8" drivers in parallel for the bass but one is a 4 ohm with a 3mH inductor in series with the driver. The ideas was to give a little boost to the very low (<100Hz) frequencies which these drivers don't handle overly well. We'll see this afternoon whether the idea worked.