Say hello to my liitle freind (FRFR).

I finally finished my 10" monitor. I picked up an Eminence Beta-10CX/ASD1001 coaxial combo with the crossover on eBay for $99, 1/4" Baltic birch for $30, and Duratex coating for $20. Total build cost was about $200 with misc parts and shipping.

Despite its small size, the Beta-10CX allowed me to tune my cabinet to somewhere between 45 and 50Hz at -3dB. I still need to measure it's actual performance. Using the 1/4" ply with aircraft style bracing allowed me to keep the weight down to 20lbs. So far, I'm pretty happy with it. Running full range music through it sounds better than my Tannoy studio monitors that I use for my living-room stereo.

The only downside so far that it is so short that the tweeter is very close to the ground and gets smeary due to reflections from the un-carpeted floor. I'm ether going to do a pole mount on it or a kick-back stand. I haven't run it at band volume yet, but I'm liking it so far at living-room volume.

I'm probably going to build a second one for a 500W micro-stack or singer/songwriter PA setup.

Guitar included for scale:

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Yeah, I've been playing with it on top of another cabinet mostly. It's not bad on the floor when playing bass though. I actually have a stand and mounting cup arriving this week.

The amp on top is a home-brew that I built in an external hard-drive/CD Rom chassis. It has a tube front end (Fender Dual Showman/Alembic F-2B) and a class D back end. I use it mostly for bass, but I was playing a little fake jazz on guitar which it works nicely for.

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