rwillett

I can't comment on port sizes for a 12" as I haven't a clue 😊 Other people have commented before on the wood and construction method. Your friend seems to want to make things unduly complicated and heavy but I will defer to people who know more about this. Rob

If only...

One advantage of having a speaker with mounting points is that other things can be attached. I've put two side panels on the Mod Dwarf, they just slip on and off, so nothing permanent, so that sits on the top and the Gnome on the back of the cabinet It's all quite secure and I'm a little surprised how neat and tidy it is.

If anybody is interested in a grab handle for their cabinet, I brought two of these from Blue Arran but decided to use side handles instead. https://www.bluearan.co.uk/index.php?id=ADH3424 They were only £2 each so its not worth trying to sell them. If anybody wants them I'll post for free. Rob

I had to do that at a Motorhead tribute band, Motorheadache. That's exactly what I ended up with, a headache. I kept moving further and further back and eventually put silicon ear plugs in. Other people were quite content to head bang in the bass bins. My ears were ringing at the back and my stomach was moving in time with the bass, so no idea what they were feeling. I have a little container as well I take to gigs for the same reason.

Were the ear protectors somebody else's best purchase of 2025?

Been there, done that, got the frostbite....

It's opened up some new names to me so that's good. As with all "best" lists, it's highly subjective and causes lots of thought / discussion / arguments / flame wars. I was surprised The Pretty Reckless didn't have an entry but as somebody posted earlier "twas ever so". Personally speaking I'd love to get a full dump of all the votes and the demographics behind the voters. I didn't see the voting page at all so no idea what information was requested by Rayo but this is a goldmine for them as they get told clearly what music to play and in which proportions. They can hit their target audience pretty quickly without spending lots on market research. This was probably the aim all along 😁

Yep. That's either the extended and remastered disco mix version collaboration with The Cheeky Girls OR Planet Rock cocked up. It doesn't really affect the numbers much as it should be in the 1960s stats and not the 1990s. I didn't check every year apart from checking the upper and lower bounds as I don't even know some of the bands. Rob

As would Darren....

So the final lists are here, all 500 songs. Its easy to see from the list below that it's all grouped around the 1970's, 1980's and early 1990's. This is borne out by the decades table for the whole 500 This is the list before the last 70 songs and now after the whole 500 songs The 1970's and the 1980's increased their percentage of the songs at the expense of the other decades. Basically more 1970's and 1980's songs in the last 70 songs today. The top band were indeed AC/DC who had the same song recorded 21 times but with different titles (joke joke). Five in the top 50, so 10% of the top 50 were AC/DC. Their average position was 187. Second was Led Zepp with 19 and an average position of 203 Joint third on the list with 18 were Queen (average position 302) and Black Sabbath (average position 229) The average year of the top 10 was 1981, songs 11-20 average year was 1978, Songs 21-30 average year was 1976, Songs 31-40 average year was 1983 and Songs 41-50 was 1980. The oldest song was Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode, 1958, which only came in at 418 (travesty IMHO) The newest song was Shinedown - A Symptom of Being Human, 2022, which came in at 259. There were only 50 songs this millennium and their average year was 2008. I make no comment on the quality of the songs (apart from Chuck Berry), I am merely your humble scribe and data analytics person. Enjoy Rob

I've been stuck in a meeting for the last two hours. Highly productive but have missed the top 10 which is annoying.... And I've just been told there's two songs left. Ah heard #2 Rob

Perhaps somebody on Basschat is local to you who can help with the cutting? My knowledge of the East Anglia area is zilch so can't comment. One option might be to clamp or screw down a length of straight wood on the inside of where the cut should be and to slowly cut through with a hand saw. That's how it used to be done anyway. If you go off the edge, at least it's on the waste side of the wood. That's one of the most difficult bits, the others (to me anyway) are cutting the large hole for the speaker and the port hole. I used a cheap trim router, but it could be done using a small hand saw. I am very happy to print you off the port pipe for nothing and post it down. If you are concerned about making a mess the speaker hole, I can also print you a little cover for the edges to hide any mistakes, that's the thing below. Its amazing what you can hide if you try hard enough There may be other options that people can suggest. If you were closer, you;d be welcome to come round and do it here or take some tools off to try. Rob

and as if by magic