stevie

John's not suggesting running high frequency drivers without any attentuation (obviously!). He's questioning the point of having an L-pad attenuator in the system at all. I had a three-way bass cab at one time with L-pads on the midrange driver and tweeter. I couldn't for the life of me figure out the best setting by ear and had to carry out measurements to find out what was happening. I ended up with something like twenty-to on the mids and quarter past on the HF. Many people assume that 12 o'clock is flat, but it rarely is. IMO, the best solution is for the manufacturer to set a fixed attentuation level that balances the bass/mid and HF.

The Veyron is very good and exceptional value for money. Performance is in line with the popular lightweight heads from Markbass, Aguilar, Ashdown etc., all of which I've owned. I've no direct experience of EBS or Eich, but if you're using it as a backup, you can't go wrong.

Yes. I did a bit of digging and that's what I found for the 1516.

Oops! Sorry, @SimonK. My mistake.

You can't go wrong with either SB Acoustics or Scan-Speak.

As stated elsewhere, the clue that the seller doesn't know what they're doing lies in the inadequately sized port. If the OP just wants four Trace 10-inch drivers, there's a set currently on Ebay for £60.

This is absolutely right - but only if the manufacturer has implemented the crossover properly so that each driver is operating in its own frequency band. I don't know for sure, but I believe all the drivers are run full range except for the tweeter.

Are you sure it extended the frequency response, or could it have just induced peaking, which might have sounded like it did?

It's probably a similar idea to what Scan-Speak have done with their slit cones, where they slice the paper cones and glue them back together again to control cone resonance. Here's the reponse of one of their seven-inch drivers showing how they've controlled serious cone break up until about 5kHz. Notice how smooth the off-axis response is right up to 7kHz.

It depends how you want to define it, @bremen. I think of it as a supplementary cone made of lighter weight material that's attached to the cone. They've fallen out of favour nowadays, as cheap whizzers are highly resonant, and there are better alternatives, i.e. coaxial drivers.

@Phil Starr is probably the person to explain this in a way that doesn't have you reaching for your dictionary. He'll probably be along soon. However, @Chienmortbb is right to say that the fall off in higher frequencies off axis is worse on a large diameter driver than a small one. I'm fascinated to hear how you can extend the off-axis rolloff by an octave by manipulating the cone and dustcap, as I've never seen this in real life. A wizzer cone is a bit different, as it is a separate transducer attached to the voice coil.

I also recommend Hot Covers products. Not only are they excellent quality but the company is great to deal with. A low-cost alternative is to use a large polythene bag. Check out eBay item number:191902777531, for example. The supplier offers 400 gauge bags up to 20 x 30 inches, which should be large enough - but obviously measure first. 400 gauge is thick enough to protect from minor damage as well as dust and dirt. It's not the most elegant solution, although at £2.50 delivered, it's certainly the cheapest.

Interested in finding out how this compares with your Veyron.

I agree with Phil that the eight-inch cab should be plenty loud enough for home use.

You might like to take a look at the Celestion TF1230S, which is priced similarly.