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Thanks for all your input Phil , I appreciate your experience and the overview you have of all this., it's been a great help. I will very likely try the Fane , now I just need to get some drawings made , I've got a self-built fretless and a re-built amp so it's only right I should put my own cab together !

I'm starting to get that too-many-options feeling along with going a bit cross-eyed over Thiele-Small numbers, I'd better just get on with something...But a last few questions....the 8" idea sent me looking around the web and of course I came across the Crazy 8 which sounds great , and is a possible way to go , but I'm not quite sure what they mean when they say it's been "designed"...without a port to tune it I'd have thought the speaker just sees an enclosed volume of air and one box is very much like another if they are rigid and airtight and the same volume. Can `I just put the Faital Pro 8PR200 driver in a suitable box and hope for the same kind of response as a Crazy 8? Is it worth the extra over the Fane Sovereign? I'm also looking at the Beyma 8P300Fe/N , although it seems to have a rubbery surround as opposed to paper and I read somewhere that this is bad for bass clarity , any truth in that?.. same goes for the Beyma 10BR60v2 which has a 30Hz-5000KHz range if specs are to be believed and sounds like a perfect compromise of size/power/frequency range for a home cab , but things that call themselves "studio" or"monitors" often sound a bit sterile at least in the hi-fi world...but then things in small closed boxes also tend to sound "boxy" in that world so maybe I have to re-calibrate my speaker-thinking for bass guitar. That'll do ....whatever I come up with , many thanks for all replies and input , I'll put up some pics of the finished article before too long I hope.

Ah , I did a bit of Googling and I found the 10" diy thread using the Celestion Pulse 10 ... is this still a recommended driver or has it been overtaken by others at this price?

Thanks for all the advice , I've been trying to search in Basschat for a 110T or Basschat 8" thread but am only finding Nekomatic's build for the latter. A link to the original posts would be useful. Hmm , I may rethink , on the other hand it's easy to end up down a rabbit-hole comparing a zillion different speaker/cab combinations and I may just go for the Beyma.

Hi , thanks for the quick reply , I tried to post in Amps and Cabs but it took me straight to PA....i was looking at 50l , I'm tempted to go with the tried and tested V2 although since this is for more of a home-use situation perhaps the smoother upper range would be nice... I'm not using any kind of tweeter.

I've been reading over the simple bass cab build on here from Phil Starr , and he uses the Beyma 12CMv2 driver and is a convincing advocate .Beyma have now produced the v3 which they say is an improvement of course , and uses a smaller enclosure. I was wondering if anyone has any opinion on which is better for a small bass cab , given that they are both on sale for the same price?