Chienmortbb

I am not sure it is a good idea to put third party comments on here about a manufacturer’s reliability. If you buy an Ashdown, and it goes wrong, that is fair game. Remember that staff in a music shop have”skin in the game”. They may be on a on some sort of sales incentive to sell one manufacturer’s products of just have that inbuilt bias that we all have. Sorry for the rant and good luck with your search.

If someone wants to pay postage both ways, I will happily sweep the Sansamp and mark the 500Hz point (or any other preferred frequency).

As usual I have to wait for someone else to put my thoughts into words. You have to have a reference, a starting point. When I first worked as a young apprentice my first job out of training g school was testing RF amplifiers. The equipment and probes we had were far from flat but at the start of each session, each morning and after lunch we would calibrate the special scopes and probes. This told us what flat looked like and we had a reference. That was a big lesson for me. The next realisation in music is that it’s not All About the Bass, or at least not the fundamental. The next thing, the thing we learn at many gigs is that the room is the box that affects your sound more than the little Barefaced, GK, Ashdown or even LFSys (my current squeeze). However if your amp or cab has a baked in sound that is similar to the acoustic qualities of a room, you are in trouble. That is why I like flat. I then use the amp eq, bass eq and multi effects to get, “my sound” but in the end I go into the auditorium and listen.

No,

My point could have been made better, but what I meant was that at practice volumes, our ears do not hear either the low or high-end very well.

I am puzzled (could be covid or my innate stupidity). Equal loudness curves show the way we hear things. So you, or at least I, would expect that a truly flat response in a PA would be the best option, then set the mix to sound good. So why do people recommend boosting the low end by 6-20dB? Is it just that the preponderance of bass heavy, computerised music in recent years. On a second point, the smiley face EQ or Shape with bass and treble boosted is much like the old Loudness controls on Hi-fi amps. These were there because the equal loudness curves change with Volume/SPL. Does this explain why smiley face EQ sounds great at home but rubbish on stage? There is an excellent piece on this, it's quite short, Is Sound an Illusion? © 2009, Les Acres, Rod Elliott

I just sold a Zoom B1ON, plastic cased and absolutely bulletproof. If anything, the newer models are even tougher.

Of course, even the Neutriks are now made in China

Hi Arigato

Magic fairy dust.

The new Zoom B6 gets a lot of love. I am sorely tempted.

New feet arrived today. Much better but still need to re-drill and spread them out.

That is a terrorscope not a telescope.

It’s a guitar cabinet! Seriously the PJB video has some good stuff in it but does not do what the title suggests, explain why lots of small speakers is better.

Yes but I need to drill some new wholes as the existing ones were not ideal😀 I have also order some slightly smaller ones.

I will let @stevieanswer the driver question but I asked the question about the handle last week. One of my amps has only about 4mm clearance. The answer was, and in hindsight I agree, that rebating the handle will create a dust trap as the handle is rounded over at the edge. Having used that handle now on my previous cab for 4 years or more, I can say that it is the easiest one hand lift handle I have used.

I am listening to that now and will comment later.

Encore was the own brand name of basses and guitars from JHS. Formerly known as John Hornby Skewes, they are based in Leeds. I know Trev Wilkinson had some design input at some point, but maybe a bit later? https://www.jhs.co.uk/search?type=product&options[prefix]=last&q=Encore

REW may be the way to go. I use software allied to the Picotech range of PC oscilloscopes. This is versatile but expensive for just viewing the frequency responses of amplifiers.

Using ready-made 3.5mm cables and cutting them in half is the easiest way, but I am always wary of moulded plugs. They can hide a multitude of sins, even on the big brands. Also braided cables bring their own problems. I agree that the Rean plugs are some of the best, especially with the Neutrik brand behind them.

Thank you Sir.

I will do that next time I visit @stevie. It won't be soon as I have Covid 😁

There was a lot of different things in the quiet room so interest was spread around.

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The RM500 was measured with the EQ off.