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same here, still nothing arriving from basschat at all.

The solution didn't work for me mainly because i'm not even recieving anything in my spam folder. Nothing is arriving at all from Basschat and hasn't since the server update. All other mail is arriving normally in the account I use for Basschat.

It sounded very good indeed. The ABM for me has always had a very flexible sounding pre-amp. Pairing it with this new LFSYS cab opened up a new dimension of flexibility and sound. I haven't really had much experience using full range design cabs before and I could hear so much more detail sound wise. The cab is not so much an FRFR design, probably nearer to what I would say VMFR( vintage modified full range ). It's a warm sounding cab and that may because of the choice of a Celestion driver. It works really well with the ABM, and has given me a new appreciation of just how good a swiss army knife of amps an ABM can be. The cab and amp worked well together and I think thats mainly because the cab does need an amp with a bit of available headroom to get the best from it. An ABM sits nicely on the cab in landscape mode but the dispersion horn would ideally need to be rotated 90 degrees to maintain the sonic benefits of the cabs design in a landscape setup.

Thanks for checking, although still haven't had a single basschat email since yesterday. My email is working fine otherwise. Alerts are showing fine when logged in so its not a problem.

I'm still using my Overwater bass from the early 1980s. The build quality back then was and still is exemplary.

Is the mail server queue / mail process stuck? I haven't recieved any alerts to thread updates since the earlier wobble on the BC site today? I'm guessing if it is stuck, the queues will be fairly sizeable by now🙄

I've always had a soft spot for GK bass amps and have owned and used several Backline and RB amps over the years, the last being a wonderful 700RB model. I lost interest in the MB/Legacy and Fusion stuff they moved to in recent times although I have only heard good things about GK class D amps. These new models are quite exciting, and I wonder if GK are acknowledging that in hindsight their RB amps were such good products, they deserve a modern take on a classic design, and that hopefully bass players will be willing to buy a modern up to date RB thats isn't class-d based. No pictures of the 1001RB Legacy, but i'll assume its also a 3U chassis until I see otherwise. I'm glad I kept my rack case, I may need it once these things start to ship 😉

First gig of the year this afternoon and it was a dep for some old band mates. 4pm-7pm Sunday afternoon type easy going blues/jazz event at Baker Street in Stirling. Band going by the name Blues Delux this time. The name seems to change every gig at the moment for these guys as does the lineup. Drums/bass/guitar/saxophone/vocals and harp. Very enjoyable three hour gig and for the most part a bluesy jazzy jam with good friends. Only downside was not having a huge amount of room to set up. The new LFSYS cab was a godsend size wise and there wasn't really any room for anything bigger. New Mighty Mat carpet square is my latest gigging accessory and its job is to keep cabs and stuff off dirty pub floors. Works perfectly! Over-did the amp side of things but well I just had to hear for myself if Trace Elliot watts are different from all other watts😉 Good feedback from quite a few punters asking the name of the band, and surprisingly good feedback about the bass sound from several band mates. The cab was phenomenally good and it takes some getting used to hearing everything so clearly. It's easy to assume the amp is up far too loud, but it wasn't. Saw some folks taking video footage but nothing available yet. Home by 8pm, got paid, and relaxing with a nice Bowmore malt to see out Sunday evening. Lovely.

Something new, something borrowed and something blue...road testing this weekends rig of choice for my Sunday gig at tonights (Fridays) regular studio jam. I can't say much about the cab at the moment other than it's not a Monza, it sounds fantastic, punches way way above its size and weight, which incidentally is I think the lightest LFSYS model yet at under 9kg. All to be revealed in the near future.😉

Having a cab rated at twice the rating of the amp was certainly something that was widely suggested a good plan to have when I started playing many years ago. It may seem over cautious to some, but I've never blown a driver in a cab ever using this approach. I once asked a local repair guy in our local music shop why I needed a 200 watt cab for my 100 watt superbass, and why all the local shredders with their 100 watt super leads seemed to managed ok with their 100w greenback loaded 4x12s. The truth he said was that the shredders had their cabs back in for repair to blown drivers every three or four months. Over time the 25W Greenback drivers were all replaced with 50W McKenzie drivers and after that was done, the cabs never came back for repair again. The point being he said, having a bit of reserve in the tank thermally speaking is no bad thing where speakers are concerned. I've run a 500watt class A/B head into a 200watt 4 ohm cab in recent times as an experiment, and it worked fine for a lo-fi gig but I wouldn't do that on a regular basis. Listening carefully to a cab will often tell you whether the drivers are struggling long before they are ready to fail. Speaker ratings these days do seem to be getting more consistent and perhaps accurate with quality component manufacturers providing lots of technical data openly for their products. I wish i could say the same about power ratings for modern amps. The same amp could be rated 800watts @ 10% THD, 703watts @ 1%THD and 596 watts @ 0.01 THD. They may all be accurate figures for the same amp, but which of those ratings will sell the most units? I'm always a bit wary of claims where its said as long as you use a clean signal, you can use oodles and oodles and oodles of power without affecting your speaker even if its rated the same or below an amplifier rating you don't really know is real world accurate. Hmmm. Yes its all very confusing to me. As far as the OP is concerned, I'd love to know if BF asked to return the faulty driver for an investigation into why it failed in the first place.

I think its curious that only one of the two drivers has a problem. If they were both subjected to the same usage, I think it would be fair to expect both to wear at a similar rate. Re the 4 ohm/8 ohm thing, I'm sure the earlier BF210 were 8ohm/400w rated, that may have gone up to 500w in time which may suggest the later drivers were refined or improved in some way. 2 x 4ohm drivers wired in series? When i used two BF 110's I recall asking BF about replacement speakers for them and at the time they said for all the 110, 210, and 410 cabs they had sold up to that point, they hadn't had a single driver failure reported. Reliability was in fact very good. That was a few years ago now and I suppose driver specs may change so a current replacement may be slighty better than the original from 7 years ago. As has been said, it would probably be in BF's interest to do a post mortem on a failed driver, if only to rule out any late manufacturing issues that are only showing up after several years of use. Things coming apart due to dried out adhesives, or bits of a brittle coil former snapping of and rattling around in the magnet air gap, or a loose spider assembly are all things that can't normally be viewed externally. I'm not suggesting your driver has any of that but the only sure way to find out is likely taking the thing apart. I'm guessing the cab is well past its warranty date so BF would be within their rights to charge the going rate for a cab repair. There's nothing to loose by dealing with them in the first instance except maybe a few quid for a repair. Its worth getting it repaired with the right units so it can keep performing as designed. Sticking a couple of beta 10's in your cab might get it going and be cheaper but it won't perform anything like it has previously done. Still, i'm surprised a premium product like a BF cab has developed problems after just seven years. Speaker drivers do fail occasionally, and they always will as long as they are around. Seems a bit premature though.

Just powered up today since I bought this on FB marketplace for £30. The pre-amp section was near mint, only the little bulbs behind the Trace Elliot logo needed replaced. The amp was sold as no output but it was making a sound, albeit slightly distorted. The problem was easily 'traced' to the ubiquitous PM-4S mosfet output board used in many TE's of the time, and fixed with a few minor component swaps. Weighs a ton right enough, but i can practice my scales and work on my winter tan at the same time 🙂 It also sounds absolutely amazing. It's my third AH250 and the best (and chepeast) one yet.

None of those boxes look in tip top condition, and despite that legendary TE build quality, probably don't sound that great in their present condition. I also can't believe they mostly still have their coloured knob caps intact. They are usually the first thing that falls off old TE amps.

I knew I had a picture of the loudest and heaviest 150 watt rig I ever owned somewhere. The rig was bought for £100 and fully restored to like new. It sounded colossal. Trying to shoe horn it into a small hatchback lasted ony a few times before it had to go. I did make a bit of money on the resale but even so I had to basically give it away for what it was. The 1818 cab was just something else. You could bomb the bass as much as you wanted and it handled it all without any fuss whatsover, better than sone 8x10s I've used. The 1048H cab was immensely loud. Both made of MDF were immensely heavy. If I had a roadie or even a much larger vehicle I may have been tempted to keep one of the cabs as they sounded so good. That's why so much modern bass gear won't ever come close to sounding like these types of cabs. They may be smaller, and lighter, but modern day tone just doesnt compare to the sound these things made. IMHO. My back hurts just thinking about how I managed to lift the 1048 onto the 1818😐