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The Beymas arrived yesterday, so Bluelines de-mounted, and now just waiting for the 4" MBR ports to arrive, as i need to widen the port holes, and its way easier without drivers mounted. One thing that puzzles me. There always seems to be foam rubber seal on the front of the driver mounting flange of every driver i've bought in the past, including these Beymas, suggesting they should be mounted from behind ( oooer ) the baffle, yet this would involve destroying the cab. You simply cannot get the drivers in otherwise. It would make more sense to have the foam seal on the back of the mounting flange, since they will be mounted on the front of the baffle

1) Yes. Just had major hip surgery ( replacement ) due to car accident 7) Yes, all the time 16) Yes, see No.1. I think that counts as a medical condition 17) Yes Everything else is a no

Those 2 above with similar looking pickups are, i think, earlier models than mine and the OP's. I think they were Bill Lawrence pickups, and later they moved to Armstrongs, like mine and Darkhearts

Another shark lover here. I owned a Cherrywood bodied model, with the single chrome pickup, and the shoddy Tortoiseshell p-guard that had a tendency to warp. Bluddy good sounding bass though. I often wondered what the active version sounded like, as mine was passive Also, from what i can see, the chrome single pup model had the pup much further up from the bridge, whereas the black single pup model was much closer to the bridge

It just seemed beefier , which really is what you want from an MM clone pickup

Thanks Phil One thing with the original ports, is that they're 2.75" I.D. at the outside but as they dive into the cab, they taper to 2.25" They may have been fine for the OEM drivers but i'm wondering if they should be bigger, so i've ordered a pair of 100mm ports from CPC , and they're 114mm long. Roughly, ( very roughly ) the combo is 2.47ft Cube, or 0.07M cube. If that equates to about 70 litres, then the Beymas should be fine as they need 30 litres each. Of course the back of the drivers use up some litreage, so it wont be quite 70 litres

I've gone for @Phil Starr 's recommendation and ordered the Beyma CMV2's. I've used Beymas before , though it was the SN/110, and they were awesome. CMV2 drivers are £15 each cheaper than the betas, so have saved £30

I eventually contacted Ashdown and got a reply the next day, but they didnt tell me what the original drivers were and what the TSP's were, and i did ask. Probably too old to keep such info All i got was a short message saying that the best replacement was the Eminence Beta 10 but that has Bill's absolute minimum xmax of 3mm. The beyma CMV2 suggested seems to be more apt

Its a week on and i havent noticed any difference. That was some slick handover

Cancel that

@ped has a passion for Vigiers ( sorry ) n

I find him to be one of the nicest, most down to earth, not gone to me head, musicians on the planet.

Fans arrived and now mounted. Dear cliff these things are quiet. I had to put my ear right up to them to hear them working. What a difference. The originals could wake a house of lords member. Not totally in love with the speakers, now the originals are back in.

And for good measure, Guy aged 22 with Aussie synthers Icehouse playing a cricket bat. Anyone else see Icehouse at Milton Keynes Bowl supporting Bowie in the 80's ? I must have seen Guy without knowing it

Another Pratt lover here Awesome bloke. Fab interview here, although a bit short. Eye opener was the bit about Gilmour playing fretless bass. Apparently all the fretless bass on The Wall was Gilmour https://www.musicradar.com/news/guy-pratt-the-80s-music-business-was-this-ludicrous-theme-park-awash-with-money-all-you-had-to-do-was-get-over-the-fence

Yep, DD have already done the cleaning, hence the photo above, and there was some dust on the sink fins on the fan side, but not a great deal.

Wait till there's a nice storm brewing , open a window and hurl the offending footwear outside, and write a song about it. You could call it ' sandal in the wind ' I do beg your pardon

I favour the natural Greek Honeycomb Sea Sponge. It looks a little obvious under the strings, but hell, ..works like a charm

Likewise, the heatsinks on the amp are at the back of the chassis

Having now checked the fans, they were blowing in onto the heat sinks, and judging by the dust on the fins of the sinks, that confirms what you say Bill, although it wasnt a huge amount of dust But since Ashdown designed the fans to blow in and not extract out, i shall be mouting the new ones to blow onto the heat sinks

Excellent point Mott

Yes Phil i did use the SM110/n drivers in my two 2x10 cabs at the time Those in your link look great, but i'll wait till my new fans arrive, and check what the combo sounds like with the originals, as they're now mounted back in. I wont be upgrading unless its necessary

They were both facing the same way, so either both blowing or both extracting The red wire off each were joined and the black wires were joined as well