Downunderwonder

Makes a doofus think again before hooking up an illegal load. One for 4 + one for 8 = much less likelihood the disaster you would get hooking up one of each.

I am not following this line of insurance BS. Do they decline to insure your house because Boy George might come over for a BBQ and trip on your front step?

Agedhorse raised concern that prior out of spec loading had caused damage already. Going hard out into 4 ohm being just the last straw. Given that you had the impedance wrong on the HLF it's not a stretch to having it wrong and hooking up 2 ohms previously.

It was an Ampeg 410HLF rated at 8ohms I am seeing a problem here if the 8 ohm cab was (actually) a 4 ohm 410HLF. A pair of 4 ohm cabs is a 2 ohm load. That's nasty.

I meant the motivating factor in leaving the status quo could have a bigger financial twist than just making more sales. It could also be a simple lack of motivation.

If the cab was 4 ohms that's all that really matters, no? Sounds like PMT gave you the runaround with the first return. Does the UK have a 'lemon law' whereby duff stuff gets replaced? Obviously the amp has suffered a major malfunction and the best thing for you would be a replacement and Darkglass themselves autopsy it for posterity.

Farting is the sound you get from an excess of power applied to low end frequencies. I think it's entirely likely your 500w amp is fully up to the task of farting your 4 ohm BF cab without clipping itself. Outdoors you have no wall behind the cab to add the usual 6dB of low end reflective bass. Effectively that's a 'phantom' 6dB cut on your EQ ie the knobs haven't moved. To compensate you boost your lows or pluck nearer the neck without realizing. Fart city for the cab getting four times the low end power to get it sound like it does with a wall behind it.

Only three controls. Bass Mid Treble. The mids are cut only. Nominal flat is 2 on the bass and treble and mids 'dimed'.

The 110 makes the Elf look sorta normal sized with a silly jumbo sized cable.

Wouldn't get a look in from me if it came Fender Tone Stack kneecapped.

It's more they want the sales without the cost of holding stock.

There's a whole lot of questioning going on there. 'Wattage' from an amp assumes a load so as to calculate power from the known amp voltage output. Class D amps come with varying levels of claim about their wattage. Agedhorse can fill you in on the detail but the more reputable claims are based on a 'duty cycle' that acknowledges the lack of noise required most of the time and leverages that to increase the peak power that can be had without anything blowing up. Less than reputable schemes shrink the duty cycle to claim stupendous power output that fails the thumping 8ths test. This contrasts with old school Trace Elliot solid state rating which was the continuous rated output. Play whatever you like and it can come out with the peak clean voltage every time. Tube amps still sound good with quite a bit of distortion going on. That raises the power level without raising the peak voltage.

As in no service available only wholesale board replacement if you're still in warranty.

Bill is a very reliable source of information. Diversity doesn't always blend well. Far from it. Sometimes a bit of diversity will work out ok but your proposed diversity is a non starter thanks to the amp impedance limit being exceeded. In any case it's a lottery so the advice to double up your current cab is sound. Ahem, you're missing a comma.

Muffin top is such a drag. Tube amps that can't fit on a upended 210 without muffining should come with a little fold down trestle table that can hold two 210's and a splash guard so the amp can sit under, safe from spillages.

I hope your big stages have a sound crew that accommodates a mic for the true tube glory to be sent forth.

Not a very available item last I was looking around a couple of years BC. What's the choice like these days?

All good except it's apparently just the singer recruiting for a replacement set of unrewarded underlings on his mission to stardom.

I think it lacks the black and yellow factor that works on the primitive subconscious brain, the last to go after 10 pints. Those cable run protectors are genius. Nobody wants to dance on those. Next best thing to a solid fence I reckon.

I feel I have lead a charmed life never to have encountered such a narcissistic freakshow.

Been there done that and been partially deafened while still not hearing myself properly, although my calves heard very well.

Originally 4x cabs solved the relative lack of volume of single 15 boxes of similar size. Tradition set in. Tradtions die hard but these days it's difficult to even give away 410 cabs in the US.

Dangerous stuff that 'thinking'. Either it's the duck's nuts or it's trashing your sound. Can't be both, you decide. I have tried multiple drive distortion on series and found it wasn't too flash unless one was only doing a mild giddyup. But that was my pedals and amps not yours and even if I had the exact same as you we could have entirely different preferences.

Not unique but a 4x of 12's beams worse than a set of 10's which are bad enough themselves that the exact same comment would have been made.

This happens in many industries. The venue knows they are in the position to deny access to vendors. A tame captive crew is ripe for taxation. On the other hand the vendor is free to add to his quote for a taxing venue. The venue has to be extra good to make up for the inflated prices being charged. The venue banks on them being the best so the best vendors are happy to charge a bit more or eat the tax on their significant fee to get in. If neither is true they wind up with 2nd or 3rd tier vendors and their own status falls. This naturally favours monopoly venues such as stadiums, airports, destinations, and the big in demand function venues.