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I got today from my machinist the complete MiniMe enclosure, he did a good job.  It looks so simple but it was reportedly pain in ass to do it, not to mention that it turned out to be much more expensive then I originally expected. The good part is that the enclosure has a very good “feel” and surprisingly heavy. When I tap the enclosure it does not response like wood but rather as some kind of heavy cardboard. I kind of do not like it but it is not treated yet. It will be 4 ribs inserted into the bass enclosure and glued in. They are a 5” wide and have a special curved profile to be inserted through the drivers’ holes. Also the internal wall of the bass chamber will be damped. Let see how it will be response then. Well I say is as I know how it shell response – in really I have absolutely no idea…

The cost turned out to be high. The MiniMe is made with ½” G10 and glued by Loctite 454. The Loctite 454 is looks like very cool, those expansive: $20 per 10g. The G10 cost was around $1800. It took 31.5 hours for my machinist for the whole project. It is time $80 made $2500 for labor. So, the total cost so far is $4.300. The cost of the drivers $1300, plays the cost of damping, bolting, the weeks of testing and crossovering – it will be total around $7K – way far from the cheap and dirty MiniMe that I originally intended. Funny fanny but it will be more expensive then the Macondo Horns…

Anyhow, it is what it is. I do not necessary as much bitch about the cost as about the lock of assurance that the MiniMe might end up as another failed projects, as do many in recent times. I still have no idea how the MiniMe would be sounding but I do admit that it has some aspect of interest to navigate this project.

At the picture the speaker looks big but it is because it is white. What it will be black it will be less demanding. I still think how to finish it and when to finish – after I leans hot it sound or before it… A big dilemma as if it sound good then it will be textured back, if it sound like crap then it will be green with red stripes…

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