We talking speaker bass or sea bass in this thread? Great stories - east coasters have the best ones.
Nando.
Damn Nando, you nailed. I'm not a native east coaster, but as soon as I came out here it was home. I moved from southern Ontario, Canada and really enjoy the small town camaraderie out here but damn do we have some characters out here! It's very tame crime wise, I don't worry about locking my doors at all. Mostly locals drinking too much (shine) brings the police out. We have one police station for an area half the size of say the state of Delaware. So you have to try pretty had to get a police response! I worked in western Canada and the natives had a lot of social problems with alcohol and drugs/huffing gas and whatnot, out here it's just the odd drunk fisherman putting his atv in the ditch leaving the bar.
So back to the sea bass, I got the second cabinet built. It sounds much tighter than the band pass. At loud (LOUD) levels it's hands down better and makes proper use of pro audio gear. That said, at low levels, it takes a bit to get rockin' and I miss the extreme low response of the 18" bandpass. At any level above loud talking over the stereo, this is a major improvement. In my living room, I would look for proper response at "indoor" listening levels.
I will ill be starting into my "indoor" build hopefully this summer using the PL and other vintage gear. We'll see where that goes but I'm looking for old school with that build. I finally got my father to part with the pioneer RT-707 and I will be restoring the Michel turntable also. Succeeded with building a night club, time to make a vintage man cave!