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I have noticed his prices creep up and go down on certain items, the black Gibson Ripper was £2395 yesterday and £2595 today.

Or a compelte lack of earth. If a venue has different ring voltages on the earth, that's not good and implies a problem with the ring earth somewhere. The earths in a building should be common.

Heathen! you blasphemer i think we need a stoning

Bill's correct. I think the blue Ashdown drivers were Sicas, so were of reasonable quality. However, the BF is a far superior design and will certainly be more efficient (and therefore louder) than the Ashdown. I'd put the money towards a more powerful head, rather than throw it at another cab, no matter how cheap it is. 30w is really only adequate for home, studio or acoustic gig use for a bass. Guitar players can get away with 30w amps on gigs because they do not want clean sound or extended low frequencies, both of which need power.

I'd post this on the Sound On Sound forum and see what response you get there.

I believe there's "magic" in any bass from ANY era if the user believes there is rather than any intrinsic magic.It's all wood,magnets and screws with some strings attached ultimately.

After some fettlement… yup. Very happy to have an 1100s back in the fold. Wish I could remember where my old sunburst one went.

I bought my first Fender, a new cherry sunburst 1981 Precision when I was 18 and had to work all Summer in Bejams to afford it. It has had a few upgrades - HiMass bridge, aged pearl pickguard, EMG GZR pickup but lives in its case as the body is made of a special kind of ash that seems to be closely related to concrete. My bitza precision is much nicer to play, but I can't bear to part with the old one event though I hardly play it.

I've always played bass and guitar - started at the same time really. It was all the fault of Brian May and Steve Harris! Over the last 40 years I've probably done about an equal amount of gigs on guitar and bass with quite a few of the guitar ones as frontman / singer too. For some reason I find singing while playing guitar easy but almost impossible with bass. Different mindset I think. 40 years of buying gear I didn't need! I'm not in a band at the moment. About a year ago I ended a 12 year stint doing big band jazz as I needed a break. I really enjoyed it but it was time to go. Over that time I got so used to playing in flat keys that anything else now sounds really weird! I am now writing new stuff a bit which I haven't done for a long time and I've been putting together bitsas for the first time ever. I'm enjoying that a lot. I am just starting to get the urge to gig again but I'm not sure whether for guitar or bass. I think I'd like to sing again if I can get my voice back into shape - I haven't fronted for 20 years. Whatever it is though it will be a power trio, or 3 + singer. There were 25 people in the jazz band and I'm craving simplicity! Top Tip: If you leave a band to have a rest - DO NOT TELL ANYONE! Within 10 mins of me telling friends that I had quit the big band I was getting texts with "you've still got your gear.... right?"

It’s the handles at the front of the amp which make it a VERY snug fit. I know this because I just decided to buy one. It’s better than the Trace bag though!

Surface area by itself means next to nothing. What matters is area x excursion, ie., displacement. BF lists it, Ashdown doesn't. In any event you're not going to get anywhere near what the BF you have is capable of with 30 watts. 300 would be more appropriate.

I love my PF101 - it just works and sounds good in a musical way

Even “from a given specific era” seems to bestow the most magical and expensive qualities these days, rare serial number or limited edition not needed. Just enough that it came off a production line in a given year having been made the cheapest way. of course, whilst time has passed the wood has become magical

My current cab is an early Barefaced 1x15 compact - lovely cab, very easy to move and a superb sound. However, ive been trying to get away with using an Ashdown Little Bastard head live as we do use a decent PA and all DI into the mix but finding it falls JUST short. I have the opportunity of a dirt cheap Ashdown ABM 4x10 (UK made, blue speakers) and was wondering what the volume difference would be from a 1x15 to a 4x10 (im very much aware of the limitations of a 30w head). I know Barefaced are supposed to be super efficient so that further muddies the water as to exactly how much more volume a 4x10 box would throw out?

I did the same with a designacable Mogami and Lyric HG. I understand the snake oil arguments and agree to a large extent. I use ATC powered monitors and when I asked the company for cable recommendations, was told just good quality cable and connectors – nothing special required. However, back to bass cables: in my comparison, there was a small but noticeable difference – one cable wasn’t ‘better’ than the other, though I preferred the Evidence Audio - a little more presence in certain frequencies (mainly upper-mids). It wasn’t a blind test and there could be price-influenced prejudice/expectations or some imagination involved. On repeating, I had the same perception and preference. Make of this what you will – I still use both cables extensively and I’m happy with them pretty much equally. Good cable, good connectors and attention to detail in construction to ensure robustness. Plus careful coiling and storage, and even greater care in who gets near your cables. It’s difficult to go wrong really.