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I've just taken delivery of a Prusa MK4 to replace one of my MK3S+ 3D printers. A quick heads up in case anybody is thinking of buying one. I've done a load of test printing and there's good and bad. The good is the speed and the quality. It's so much faster than a MK3S+, nearly twice as fast on some pieces. The quality also looks very good indeed. There are new things such as Input Shaping that I haven't got my head around yet, but I'll learn. The bad is that Prusa appear to have deliberately crippled Octoprint to work with it. Octoprint acts as a print server, normally runs on something a Raspberry Pi and provides a fabulous wealth of plugins for users such as emails when the print is finished or when filament needs changing. Octoprint can also drive the front panel of a MK3S+ so you can see how long is left and other usefyk stuff. Prusa doesn't support the specific gcode for that, so the front panel on Mk4 looks very simplistic (see above). It was supported so I think Prusa is pushing towards Prusalink, they can forget that as I'll simply reuse an old tablet for the display and ignore the front panel. There also appears to be a long running issue over the filament sensor not working properly. It detects the filament is out but sometimes doesn't recognise the replacement filament and keeps saying put it in. I had it twice when I tested it but not actually reoccurred for the last 8-10 tests I then did. I'll keep an eye on that. Very, very dissapointing from Prusa. The ticket on it started 6/7/2023 and its still not resolved. Just had anotehr look at a test print and it is very, very good with Input Shaping. .

Thanks. Never thought of using a laptop bag. Being a largeish class D head, it makes sense. I only got that amp a couple of weeks ago and only used it once at band practice. It's certainly powerful, that was the first thing I noticed. It wasn't the greatest test as I was trying out my old 60's Thunderbird copy with an outboard preamp. It sounded great but it was more an experiment with the bass than a proper amp test. But like I said, it sounded pretty darn good through a 2x12 cab.

Rise Up - Cliff Richard

There's nothing cheating about that!

You raise me up - Thompson Twins

As you said we can only go on our own personal experience. I'm happy with what I get and have got over the last 10 years or so dealing with BD. We all have choices thankfully.

Smebody would love only one Harley Davidson.

It's a 70s MIJ Terada. A very well made Martin copy with lovely low action and easy to play. Sounds like it should.

EBS actually recommends using a Laptop bag on their website. The Reidmar 752 got your back The amp fits nicely in a laptop bag, and the lightweight saves your back when traveling with your Reidmar 752. Out of interest, how you you find the Reidmar 752? It's a head that I'm considering getting to replace my MarkBass LM IV. Love my LM IV but also love EBS stuff.

Thank you, I'll give this go and see how it sounds. The Mooer Reverb has now gone as the Slo Reverb is a much better unit but at the moment, the Slo is being used purely as a reverb unit. It's new so I'm still working it out so it might be used for some ambient swells a little later on but I think mostly for reverb. The Zoom is used to create those ambient swells using reverb and auto volume delay so a lot more of an effect.

Lazarus ～ Porcupine Tree

I'd suggest this as a stand for it

Good service service should be the norm from any vendor. If there has been any variance below or way above that, sharing that experience is useful to future users of that service, forewarned is forearmed, etc. My last purchase from GG in Edinburgh, for instance, was a very good experience, where I received a much higher trade in value than I had anticipated and I shall use them again (they’re not my nearest retailer) when a certain item comes into stock.