NCD - Ashdown Mibass 10, £20 from Money Traders

[lemmywinks]

12 minutes ago, Phil Starr said:

I've had a quick look and the cab is roughly 25-28 litres and my guess is tuned to 50Hz. If you want to measure the internal dimensions of the cab and the port dimensions I can check that for you. That is typical for a 10" cab so probably a range of speakers will fit and work OK. I can do a quick check and identify any complete mis-matches with the drivers suggested if you give me those dimensions

 

 

Nice one I'll have a look when I get chance, hopefully tomorrow.

[lemmywinks]

Just looked inside, the ports go right to the back then upwards towards the middle of the cabinet in an L shape so I'll give the internal cab volume two separate sets of dimensions, one for above where the port ends and one below. I'll do the same for the port, I also measured each side of the port divider and added the lengths together so that's accounted for. I hope this makes sense!

 

This is what it looks like from the front:

 

 

And this is what it looke like looking down the port from the inside:

 

 

 

 

There's also a curved handle cutout which I'll give the straight dimensions for, the actual amount of space the handle takes up would be between 1/2 and 3/4 of this.

 

 

Upper cab (l x w x h)

262mm x 304mm x 133mm

 

Lower cab (l x w x h)

262mmm x 240mm x 152m

 

 

Horizontal port x 2 (l x w x h)

280mm x 296mm x 25mm

 

Vertical port x 2 (l x w x h)

280mm x 49mm x 191mm

 

 

Handle (l x w x h)

132mm x 39mm x 39mm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Phil Starr]

That's interesting to see inside the cab. for a commercial cab it has a lot of bracing, It would be difficult to adjust the tuning for most people  but the folded port isn't unusual in small cabs. No damping material in the cab though? I'll try and get the calcs done this weekend.

[lemmywinks]

12 hours ago, Phil Starr said:

That's interesting to see inside the cab. for a commercial cab it has a lot of bracing, It would be difficult to adjust the tuning for most people  but the folded port isn't unusual in small cabs. No damping material in the cab though? I'll try and get the calcs done this weekend.

 

The empty cab on it's a bit heavier than expected, definitely a solid little thing. Spoke to my mate tonight and he's going to make an offer on a used Pulse so hopefully he'll have a mini stack soon enough.

 

Disappointing that Ashdown only offered a single 1/4" input on these even on the 8ohm cabs, means he'll have to buy a splitter cable. The OriginAL series cabs had dual Speakon combo jacks.

Edited January 11 by lemmywinks

[lemmywinks]

This does mean my much maligned BN10 300s is now without a home, quite enjoyed playing through it in this cab over the last couple of days.

[tauzero]

On 11/01/2025 at 19:13, lemmywinks said:

Disappointing that Ashdown only offered a single 1/4" input on these even on the 8ohm cabs, means he'll have to buy a splitter cable. The OriginAL series cabs had dual Speakon combo jacks.

 

Why not replace the jack socket with a Speakon/jack combi socket?

[lemmywinks]

32 minutes ago, tauzero said:

 

Why not replace the jack socket with a Speakon/jack combi socket?

 

Still wouldn't be able to daisy chain cabs as there's just one socket, even on the 8ohm version so if your head only has a single output you either need to mod the backplate, make a new one or use a Y cable. Annoyingly Ashdown put the single 1/4" input right in the middle so there's no way of modding it that wouldn't look like a bodge.

 

If I was keeping it I'd just make a new backplate and put dual Speakon Combo connectors on there.