Recommendations for an alnico EV SRO 12 loaded 2x12 design.

[The Mad Titan]

I've recently come into two alnico SRO's and love the hell out of them. Great speaker, takes everything great about the EVM12L and eliminates the slight sterility of them by adding a heaping helping of rich warm articulate midrange, smoothing out the treble a hair while seeming to chime more (more spread, less pingy thanks to alnico compression), and rolling off a hair of the extreme lows.

The one I have now I had the seller ship directly to Orange County Speaker for a recone after I blew the first one I bought with it loaded in the ported bottom of my Boogie half-back. I fried it within 45 min. of owning it, but fuck those 45 mins were awesome as hell. I was riffing in C# with my P90 loaded LP > Octavio > White Dot NKT275 Sun Face > Tremoverb's clean channel. The cone was pumping like a mother fucker too.

Since the box showed signs of shipping dmg UPS paid the value of the speaker at time of purchase. So though it sucks I lost the original cone on a minty alnico SRO I am getting this one for just the cost of the recone and shipping.

The recone came back a week ago, and to my ears it sounds every bit as good as the original cone one did, the cone looks very similar too, but shinier/glossier.

Here are pics of the 1st near mint one. It's being reconed by a local guy whose done tons of them, he also builds tweed based amps under the name Hurricane, and used to own an electronics repair shop in town before he "retired."







So, for the cab I'm leaning towards...

A) OS diagonal ported 2x12
B) Theile 2x12
C) OS diagonal sealed 2x12 with convertible back.

What do you guys think would take full advantage of these monsters?

I'm going to buy a used table saw, & my buddy has a miter saw, router, and some other wood working tools. So we're going to build this from scratch. I have a very cool idea for the design too if I go with either A or C. B will just look like a big ass 2x12 with a traditional grill cloth.

[The Mad Titan]

I could also combine designs by making caps to close any ports in the design of A or B, and making the back convertible?

[doommeow]

I had a Musicman 212 loaded with these once upon a time... my 2nd favorite cab ever

[Gone Fission]

There's some diagonal Marshall 2x12 someone has been pushing on the local CL lately. Not the 1966 a/b but more like a full 1960 with only two speakers diagonally. That might be pretty bad ass. Or you could just do a 412 and leave two spots empty "detuned" style, if people are still doing that.

The 1966s are cool, too, though if building from scratch, you might make yours a bit deeper like Mojotone does.

For dual Thiele, word is the Dr Z "Z-Best" cab is very close to being two TL-806s with a shared cavity space. People seem to love that cab, and I've heard of DIYers playing with the port depth to tune the cab for bass use--you might get more low extension than is typical in an 806 playing with this if you tune your strings low or play baritone.