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Thanks Gents. I'm glad I went with the PF-500 head over the 7Pro. A good friend is a guitar manger at a shop. He advised me to go with the PF-500 in place of the 7Pro. The 7Pro is having issues of cutting out. He has them being bought, and returned with the issue. The cab is awesome.

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And of course he advised you there have never been any issues with the PF-500...

Edit- Make sure you get a bottle of replacement smoke, there is someone looking for some on another thread. [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/223947-pf500-died-yesterday/"]http://basschat.co.uk/topic/223947-pf500-died-yesterday/[/url]

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I haven't heard of PF-500 issues. I did switch out the PF-500 for the Markbass Little Mark lll. I didn't like the sounds with the PF-500. Great for highs, and mids, but the lows were very limited. I compared my PF-500 to Little Mark lll. The LM lll destroyed the PF-500.
I don't think the PF-500 is that big of a popular head in my area.

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I had 2 PF-500s that failed within 6 months.
One would just cut out at random intervals and take a few minutes to come back on.
The other just tripped out and never came back.

Got a full refund and bought a second hand Ashdown JJ500.

I wouldn't trust another Ampeg PF range amp ever again...

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My second hand PF 500 started cutting out at first proper gig once volume was half way up with tone flat. Now have a TC BH 500 and it's ( for me,anyway ) such a much better head, way better tone and never had the volume past 3, in a silly loud 5 piece hard rock band.

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[quote name='gsgbass' timestamp='1386212009' post='2297332']
I haven't heard of PF-500 issues. I did switch out the PF-500 for the Markbass Little Mark lll. I didn't like the sounds with the PF-500. Great for highs, and mids, but the lows were very limited. I compared my PF-500 to Little Mark lll. The LM lll destroyed the PF-500.
I don't think the PF-500 is that big of a popular head in my area.


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Think you made the right choice there, the PFs are nice amps but the Markbass amps seems to work in the same area but better, imo.

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There's Lozz196.........
Hey Lozz, Yes, I don't regret doing a Little Mark lll head. I'm to the point of not trusting anything from Ampeg's heads, other than maybe an SVT tube head. If I do someday go for a tube amp, the Markbass TTE500 will be the amp head. The PF500 I had went back to the dealer's this morning. As nice as the Markbass 12's were, the HSVT-410HLF is a killer cab. It really worked out better going back to a Markbass head. I'm convinced the Markbass works for my taste.

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[quote name='badboy1984' timestamp='1386336653' post='2298934']
I may need to revisit the cab, I'm looking for a new cab for my Ashdown LB30. Not too keen with the TC BC212, i want something more vintage tone like ashdown or ampeg.
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I had a store credit that made the Heritage price easier to swallow, than the Classic. The HSVT-410HLF is $100. higher in price, than the Classic SVT-410HLF. Like said though, the lighter weight, and the [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]US Eminence 10's were a real factor for the HSVT for me. Both Ampeg cabs [b]KICK.[/b] [/font][/color]

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