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[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1399204894' post='2442017'] Good God, that is the first time I've ever seen anywhere anything about any failure associated with obbm's work! ...I'm guessing it can only have been Neutrik's fault! Edit: Though apparently those 'silent' plugs are only good for 10,000 insertions, so... [/quote] It certainly is, it's the silent ends that have gone intermittent, nothing to do with the construction, in fact, since typing that (this morning ) another one has gone!!?

I've spent hours and hours comparing cables, mainly hi-fi interconnects ( for work, not for fun!) but also scart, hdmi, optical, and to a lesser extent mains I also spent a happy afternoon with a fellow basschatter comparing guitar leads. (That was fun) I found VERY marked differences in the case of guitar leads, scart and to a lesser extent, some interconnects. With optical there was no difference to me, with mains I found none, but as I got a couple of nice, chunky, cool looking QED ones on the cheap I bought them anyway. They have already been worth the cash, when on more than occasion using them with my bass rig the house engineer spotted them, and commented along the lines of "wow, I can tell you must really care about your tone". Which meant he paid extra care and attention with it win! With scart the differences were quite visible to me, mainly edge definition and colour, nothing you couldn't correct with a bit of fiddling though. But with HDMI the only one that made any visible difference was a really expensive one, which seemed to REALLY knacker up the picture for some reason. ??!! I found certain companies' products could always be relied of to produce some form of appreciable difference. With hi-fi interconnects it was QED and Ixos, the QED 'squart' (scart) cable made the single biggest difference of any Av cable I've ever seen, I bought several. I always enjoyed the punch and 'solidity' that Ixos interconnects and speaker cable managed to add to a system. The QED silver anniversary speaker cable made the biggest appreciable audible change to systems to my ears, but not always in a good way. Most differences by most cabling were changes that could be made simply by fiddling with EQ or settings though, but most hi-fi types prefer that left alone and to achieve the same results as a quarter turn on the treble knob by spending £50 on a cable. Fair play to them I guess, it's a hobby. I'm glad to be out the business, but I still find huge differences in tone between guitar cables, appreciable in a loud stage setting? Perhaps not, but if I know the core tone is good, and the lead reliable, then I'm happy. I guess there's an added dimension to guitar leads, as you are connected to the dynamics and response of the sound, I find massive, undeniable differences there. That said, in the last week I've had three of my main gigging cables go tits up! Two neutrick silent plugs from obbm and a leem. I'm quite into the 'armour' cables from studio spares at the moment, good noise rejection, seem tough, good output and sound good. As for the mains cables issue, I like mine, they look awesome, don't seem to do much apart from impress folks. Hell, I might even flog em on here and see if I get a bite!

[quote name='bassace' timestamp='1398766438' post='2437306'] What a coincidence, Gafbass, because I was in Cheltenham only two days ago (Sun) at a jazz jam session. Now, I usually get plenty of work in the jazz field but it was worth a 35 mile drive to get a sharpener of tunes I don't often play these days - bebop stuff by Hank Mobley, Clifford Brown and others. I was a member of the house rhythm section (p/b/d) and we were joined by two very good saxes and a couple of singers. All very well organised; the running order was put on a flip chart and charts handed round. In the middle four young guys from Bristol came in (Italians) and played a great set. It was good to hear my bass played by someone else.......and it sounded marvellous! [/quote] Sounds ace, I'm not involved In The local jazz scene at all, I'd love to be, but I'm a new discoverer of the genre, and as such gave no skills, knowledge, references or experience in playing it. I'd bloody love to though!

Thetrs a few open mic nights around here (Cheltenham) that had a nasty habit of turning into extended periods of a few guitarists endlessly noodling over whatever was being played, literally for hours at a time, bearing no relation to the style of music that was being attempted. Luckily lately things are turning more into a structured open mic where folks turn up, play what they want, ask others to sit in if they want, and then after a set number of tracks move aside for the next act. If there's time left at the end, a jam may happen, or not.

Thinking back, I've done a gig with brutal measles, the (proper) flu, (that was almost funny, first set 'I'm boiling I'm boiling', second set, 'I'm freezing, I'm freezing!', meningitis, a back so 'out' I was dosed off my face stood bolt upright in agony, migraines, last night I played with an eye infection and couldn't see a thing, went through three pairs of contact lenses to get through the night. (I'm the frontman too! Must've looked awful.

[quote name='MoonBassAlpha' timestamp='1398166579' post='2431036'] They still do the money back trial period thing, so you'd only be out the cost of postage if it didn't work out for you.... [/quote] I don't have the cash to buy in the first place though sadly.

Having previously been a supporter of barefaced, but not a fan of the cabs, I must say that this model, along with the heavy fairy making my bergantino cabs suddenly feel a lot heavier, is certainly giving me pause to thought. Sadly I'd have to sell my bergs to find out and then I'd be up the creek if I don't like it.

[quote name='bh2' timestamp='1397287686' post='2422453'] Yes... We're warming up for The Egg at a party next w/e... should be a blast! [/quote] Small world, their bass player Fish was in my band before me, (Funkbomb) he still deps for me when I can't make a gig. Really Nice guy.

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