LukeFRC

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1422217749' post='2670031'] You can't see it, but here's my S112 in action last night... It sounds awesome. So round, warm and growly. Lots of clarity even without a tweeter. Love it [/quote] I heard your slughtly bigger TKS cab you had lent warwickhunt the other week. It was nice which model was that?

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1422217749' post='2670031'] You can't see it, but here's my S112 in action last night... It sounds awesome. So round, warm and growly. Lots of clarity even without a tweeter. Love it [/quote] I heard your slughtly bigger TKS cab you had lent warwickhunt the other week. It was nice which model was that?

I've a BB1200 from the same year - flipping amazing bass

Hello phaty we're nice here, I'm not sure I've ever seen a thread on here mention the war just cos someone in it was German. I like warwicks, there's a few of us about!

So....

[quote name='molan' timestamp='1422702969' post='2675767'] Need to watch pricing trends carefully - the prices on one major European made brand being sold by a very large European online retailer have quietly risen over the last two weeks. Some products actually rose above UK main dealer prices last week. . . [/quote] I don't think it's great for UK bass players to be honest - for a few months/years european based shops with good customer service undercut UK based shops on certain items, it's the local UK shops who's margins are squeezed and who either stock less bass stuff or go under. A few years later the euro recovers and suddenly we don't have stockists for a lot of the major brands outside london, everyday shops carry only one or two brands of bass, and in low numbers and our online superstores in germany aren't as cheap as they were.....

but I guess your 5000e Ritter might have just got £200 cheaper in the last 4 weeks....

guess it depends where the thing is from. If it's made in the EU then it would be worth it... but if they are importing it from the US or somewhere then the comparative cost will be about the same.

[quote name='alexclaber' timestamp='1422441811' post='2672594'] It basically sounds fatter when horizontal because both speakers couple with the floor up to a higher frequency - I guess it's less 'hi-fi' but nothing about this cab was designed to be hi-fi. And that coupling makes it louder through the lower half of the frequency range. It also sounds deeper when horizontal because of what happens to part of the tuning of the hybrid resonator when the port is coupled with ground (as in the vertical position). [/quote] utterly OT but good to have you back posting on here Alex :-)

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1422364547' post='2671622'] I understand it is well worn, and hope a lot of the way it looks is retro repair work...?? [/quote] its an awful photo but thats generally how the series 2 stuff is build - you might not have the prettiest cab but you have one of ther best engineered bass cabs ever designed, and its built like a tank.

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1422354346' post='2671432'] Wow... that Acme lash-up takes some beating... [/quote] ?

[quote name='xgsjx' timestamp='1422307365' post='2671063'] Tell him to stick it diagonally at the top right corner (if lying horizontally). [/quote] The "ACME solution" (not my image)

[quote name='Rick's Fine '52' timestamp='1422210670' post='2669904'] ha, me too!! Absolutely nothing new to see here......., although no surprise at all really is it. [/quote] good opportunity to share a photo of a 4005 though! ....

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1422196544' post='2669721'] I would have thought that to be financially viable this amp would have to work as any other amp does, with any cab, but if the filter feature is any indication, it also has to be of specific interest to Bergantino cab owners. [/quote] im not sure the filter is the same as the dsp for speaker. Imagine this... you have a berg cab.... this amp has a hpf, eq and multiband limiting designed to get the best out of your cab.... so your cab sounds smoother deeper, fuller and so on. He already had a similar product in the ip series... and look at reviews of the sound of them!

The carvin kit stuff looks pretty tidy... esp when you see the us prices, and wjile I know bass direct and the like do their best it does end up costing more in the uk.

[quote name='Kev' timestamp='1422126998' post='2669058'] People talk about big names selling instrument, but ask yourself how they became big names? Fender, well, for obvious reasons, but the likes of Wal, Dingwall, Roscoe, Fodera, they got their names because of the quality of their work with wood, and not because of the quality of the original planks of wood instead. [/quote] Mind you the fender guitar was a design brief in how to create a cheap, mass produceable guitar....

[quote name='alembic1989' timestamp='1422121489' post='2668961'] I'm not talking about cheaper wood..I'm talking about the same wood...and there are high end 6 ers that do not have graphite stringers. �� [/quote] I don't think it is the same woods - the kit that's been linked too has a elm body and who knows what in the neck... I'ld be interested to know which type of elm it is and where it comes from - I thought it was an N American / European species - has this been grown somewhere in asia? Who knows what the stringers are and how seasoned the wood was... personally if I was looking to build a bass from a kit, I would have though a bolt on design could be fettled easier than a neck though, and the wood used in the neck, and it's construction, is the last place I'ld be making savings.

You have no idea how exciting this amp is for me. Bergantino ip.... with whatever of his cab I want!

And AB, and B, and H and....