Machines

Yeah they are definitely shabby with online specs, they seem to change quite frequently ! My MAG210T was showing as 200w for a long time online, looks like they've updated it recently to 250w, despite me having the cab over a year and it saying 250w on the back !

Can't believe I didn't spot this one coming ! Looks very interesting, I did wonder if Ashdown would ever make an all-tube head so there's my answer. Looks like it's basically an ABM with a valve power stage, I bet it sounds fantastic. Won't be cheap for sure...

[quote name='lozbass' post='323635' date='Nov 6 2008, 06:20 PM']If you can drive up to Rusholme (5 minutes up Oxford Road travelling out of the city centre - less than a 20 minute walk), you'll find some of the UK's finest Asian restaurants...[/quote] Sod that - there are so many cheap buses down that road it'd be silly to drive.

Useful page here... [url="http://www.rncm.ac.uk/content/view/41/93/"]http://www.rncm.ac.uk/content/view/41/93/[/url]

They were bought out mostly by Reverb (Arbiter I believe), who are now the UK stockists for Spector. [url="http://www.arbiter.co.uk/uk_dealers/uk_dealers_spectorbass.htm"]http://www.arbiter.co.uk/uk_dealers/uk_dea...spectorbass.htm[/url]

Check this out... [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&item=220301716316"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...em=220301716316[/url] He says he paid over £1k for it, ouch ! and if you look at this [url="http://www.soundslive.co.uk/product~name~Ashdown-ABM-C210T-500-EVO-III-Combo~ID~8592.asp"]http://www.soundslive.co.uk/product~name~A...mbo~ID~8592.asp[/url] He's going to be very disappointed.

Nice - a white pearloid pickguard and it's perfect.

I expect the little combo will be wired to the internal speaker internally, so you can't just unplug the speaker and have it get power from another source. Might be a bit of a DIY jobby but I can see it being fairly straight forward. That said - the Marshall would rip it to pieces since it's 450w 2ohm with ext cab - and the poor little combo wouldn't cope.

I don't want to know how much that cost .

Hmm, personally i'd go for the Jap/US one unless you're on a budget. And you can get deadspots on any wooden necked bass regardless of it's cost... my old Stingray had one just as much as my Mexi Jazz does.

I'll admit I don't miss having it around.

Just had my ABM repaired by Pacific Sound & Light on recommendation from here. Free quote and extremely fast service (3 days including a Sunday !). Superb communication from them and no nonsense, anyone in the Birmingham area should go here for any gripes.

Bookmarked that article for reading when I have a little more time to soak it up - cheers .

Just found this in a random google search... [url="http://www.clivebutton.com/products.htm"]http://www.clivebutton.com/products.htm[/url] Interesting.. I thought Mark Gooday was meant to have done it ?!

It's all UK made now which probably accounts for the cost. I think they're pretty good, but certainly wouldn't pay that much for them - there's a lot of other things around the same pricemark which I prefer.

It seems the staff's job is to attempt to annoy customers and lose business, a very unique and original business model for sure .

Got it yet ?!

I was at Bass Direct when birdy picked this up - amazing looking instrument and sounded so fantastic. I think it looks a lot pinker in person than the pic shows..

There's 2 speaker outputs . Both SpeakOn connectors rather than standard jack, your MAG cabs will have both available. [url="http://www.ashdownmusic.com/bass/detail.asp?section=abm&ID=55"]http://www.ashdownmusic.com/bass/detail.as...n=abm&ID=55[/url]

I'm definitely voting "if it isn't broke - dont fix it".