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I would quite like to give this a try whilst it's still in Newcastle if that's ok. I've never tried an all valve head, and I was impressed with the Red Fighter I tried when that was here for a trial.

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1465323897' post='3067194'] There's no harm dropping Leszek an email if you want more specifics - he's been very helpful with his responses to me. As for price, I think 700EUR, but I guess that might change depending on your choice of case, etc. And you're welcome to borrow it when you're up here next. :-) [/quote] I should probably change my location, I'm permanently in Newcastle now. To be honest, if it's got two switchable mid controls I'm sure I'll be able to get a tone that I'm happy with. I'll PM you about borrowing it for a trial!

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1465194282' post='3065902'] No - I don't need this much power. The R-400 is more than enough for me. :-) Leszek sent me the Red Fighter just to try out, and offer to others to try. [/quote] Sorry if I've missed this further up the thread, but how much do these retail for? I might be interested in trying this out at some point if that's ok. Do you know what frequencies the two switchable mid controls are set at?

I was allowed to start another instrument when I started secondary school and narrowed it down to either saxophone or double bass because I loved the sound of each one. Stuck to it and I instantly progressed faster on double bass than I ever had on piano. Took up bass guitar when I went to uni as I couldn't fit a double bass in my uni halls and I instantly loved it. I still love the sound of an upright bass, but a bass guitar fits in more with my music preferences.

I've got a pair of Sony MDR-1R's which I absolutely love. I bought them with the intention of using them pretty much only for practice, as I've never really liked wearing big over ear headphones when out and about, but I've hardly used my in ears at all since buying these, and my in ears are pretty decent. When I was looking, comfort was my main concern as if they were to be worn for a few hours practice at a time, I didn't want to get annoyed at having to wear them, luckily the sound quality from them is also brilliant. One thing I would say is that they sound much better when driven by a better source, they sound good from my iPod, but they sound excellent when connected straight to my CD player or Hi-Fi. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sony-MDR-1R-Ultimate-Over-Ear-Headphones-Black/dp/B00974PZ9G £150 from amazon.

I've got a BX500 which I'm really happy with. It's very light and more than loud enough for me. It's a very clean amp and you would struggle to get any overdrive without an external pedal if this matters to you. As Count Bassy has said, I can't really notice any difference with the tube in or out. I picked mine up second hand and can't fault it for the price. When I bought it it was meant as a temporary amp, but it's certainly staying for now. I've only used it twice live without PA, but it easily filled the venue, albeit fairly small.

Hi, I'm based in heaton, where are you based? Cheers, Tom

I've got a large cardboard box that my new gigbag was shipped in from Thomann. Free to whoever can collect. Cheers, Tom

I collected a Schroeder 21015 from Mark yesterday. He was kind enough to hold the cab for me even though I couldn't collect it for about 3 weeks and the transaction went really smoothly. The cab was exactly as described and there was really good communication throughout the whole deal. Really good guy to deal with. Cheers Mark

Thanks Balcro, that's fantastic. So any of the drivers should work in that cab, just ideally in matching pairs. I think for the moment, assuming the tweeter was the cause of the nasty noise, I'm going to continue to use the cab with the current drivers, being careful to listen to any signs of struggling. I haven't actually turned it up very loud yet because if I turned the amp master past about 2 or 3, the sound which prompted me to post here occurred. I'm 99% sure that the sound I heard was not due to driver failure, but I'll test that at my next rehearsal. I think when I can afford to, I'll replace the OEM unit with a Celestion BL10-200x because that seems like the cheapest solution. I think the only way to find another OEM unit would be to buy another cab, which would make replacing the driver pointless unless I can find a cab for spares/repairs. Thank you very much again for the response charts and checking to see whether the drivers will work in the cab. Tom

Thanks for the reply Lawrence. I think for the moment at least, I'm going to have to just disconnect the tweeter and see how that effects things. I don't think eminence make the original driver any more, but in their email to me, they said that the Delta-10A was their most similar stock item, the specs of which very closely match the BL10-200. Looking at the table I made, specifically looking at Fs, Qts and Vas, the Legend B102 and the Beta-10CX seem to be the closest matches. How close do these values have to be for two drivers to work? Assuming I cannot find a driver that is similar enough to the stock driver, would the best thing to do be to model the cab with original driver specs in WinISD and then compare other drivers to get the most similar response? I'm going to try the cab out at next rehearsal with the tweeter disconnected, and see what it sounds like. If either driver is about to give up, am I likely to hear it struggling/distorting before it actually does? I generally play with a clean sound, so I should be able to listen out for any distortion. Thanks again, Tom

[quote name='geoffbyrne' timestamp='1391640623' post='2359768'] Try putting the cab on its back & running at volume - the idea being that if a cable was rattling against a cone, then putting it on its back might make it hang away from the speaker. G. [/quote] Hi I did think this might be it, but when I took the drivers out, there is very little slack in the wires, certainly not enough for it to be rattling against the cone. I think I might have another idea of what it could be, having played around with just about everything, I've noticed that the tweeter control knob on the 2x10 does nothing, and it feels a lot looser than the one on the 4x10 which works perfectly. I'm thinking that there might be a problem with the crossover which is sending a full range signal to the tweeter or something. Is this possible? I'm going to try disconnecting the tweeter to see if that solves it. Is there any risk with this? Will disconnecting the tweeter have any real effect on the impedance of the cab? Thanks in advance, Tom

[quote name='Balcro' timestamp='1391611322' post='2359187'] 1. The basic internal dimensions of the cabinet. 2. The combined frontal area of the slotted port openings. 3. The depth of the slot - how far back the slotted opening extends. [/quote] Thanks balcro, this is really helpful. 1. The internal dimensions are 350h x 545w x 300d (mm) 2. The combined area of the ports is 4200mm^2 3. The depth of the port is 165mm [quote name='flyfisher' timestamp='1391618860' post='2359324'] I'd be surprised if mismatched drivers would result in a 'rattle'. Poor sound perhaps, but not a rattle. If the drivers have been removed/replaced/tampered with then I'd suspect something is loose. I appreciate you've checked everything but there's a lot of energy vibrating around a well-driven cab. Were the screws (into wood) easy to remove? Could be a bad sign. Might be worth replacing them with the next size up (diameter, not length) for a tighter fit. Nuts and bolts? Try some threadlock. Try it with the front grille removed altogether. Just a process of elimination really. [/quote] Yea, I only checked to see whether the drivers were the same because I noticed the difference when I was searching for the rattle. The cab sounds good to my ears, it's just this annoying sound I need to find and sort out. I've tightened everything up, quite a few screws turned a quarter of a turn or so, I'd be surprised if this could cause a rattle, but I've tightened them up anyway. The screws into the wood were pretty strong, tightening them up again I could put a lot of force into them and they wouldn't budge further, so I think they are ok. I think if the sound is still there next rehearsal I'll have to go through a thorough process of elimination, but hopefully tightening everything up might have sorted it out already. Thanks for your responses guys, Tom

[quote name='Michael J' timestamp='1391539229' post='2358357'] My tatty stage monitor rattles at volume. In this case it's mostly the carrying handle, the remaining cap (one is missing) covering the mounting screws isn't entirely tight. Press on it quite lightly with your toe and the rattle stops, take your foot away and it rattles again. I like it. [/quote] Thanks for that, I did try pressing on everything that could possibly rattle, but that didn't stop what I was hearing. I am going to check to see if it could be anything inside the cabinet soon, hopefully just fiddling with it might have sorted the rattle if that's what it was. Cheers, Tom

Hi, I've got responses back from both Celestion and Eminence. I've been sent the data sheet for the BL10-200 and the OEM driver in the Yamaha BBT210s. Eminence said that their most similar stock item is the Delta-10A. Having checked the specs on the OEM driver sheet against those of the BL-200 and the Delta-10A, the BL10-200 looks very similar to the Delta-10A, but neither of them seem to be very similar to the OEM driver. I've made a little table of most of the 10" drivers from Eminence and the BL10-200. I can see that a few of them have some values similar to the OEM driver, but I don't really know which values are the most important to pay attention to. Can anyone tell me which values are the most important when choosing a replacement driver? Thanks, Tom

I think the drivers in the 4x10 are original, but I can't check this until next rehearsal because I left that cab at our rehearsal space. I've checked all the screws for the driver and the grill and I'm confident it's none of them, but I didn't think to look for wires touching the chassis or things like that, so I'll check that if the rattle is still there. Once again, I won't be able to do this until next rehearsal because I live in a small flat and this noise only happened at high volumes, so I don't want to turn it up here. I've pressed on the cone and didn't hear/feel any scraping, so I think both drivers are ok, they both sound fine at low volume. I've asked eminence (the manufacturer of the original drivers) if they have a product in their current range that would be a decent replacement for the original driver and I'm just waiting for a response. I have used WinISD in the past so I should be able to try a few different drivers in this cab on that and see how they work. Thanks for your help, Tom

Hi Balcro, I hadn't thought of emailing eminence as I'd heard that they won't give out the specs of OEM drivers, but I didn't think about asking for a suitable replacement, thanks for that idea. Each cab is rated at 250 watts at 4 ohms. I've not checked this, but apparently the drivers in the 4x10 are all rated to 75 watt which would mean the 4x10 is actually 300 watts at 4 ohm, but on the back it says 250 watts. As far as I know, there was a 1x10, a 2x10 and a 4x10 in this range, and they were all rated to 250 watt at 4 Ohms. They are designed to work together with a 500 watt at 2 Ohm amp, which mine is, so I wasn't expecting a big problem. Is there any way to tell if one of the drivers is broken at all? Thank you very much for your response, Tom

Hi, I recently bought a Yamaha BBT410s and a Yamaha BBT210s to use with my Carvin BX500. The Carvin is rated 500w at 2Ohms and the two cabs are rated at 250w at 4Ohms each. The preamp on the Carvin was set pretty much flat with a very slight boost to the high and low mids. The bass control was either at 0dB or slightly cut. The Gain was set to about half way. At low volumes, they both sound ok and everything seems to work. However when I took them to rehearsal and played them at a decent volume (about 4/10 on the master volume knob), there was what sounded like a rattle and I could not find the source. When I cut the bass a lot it seemed to be a bit better, but it was still there. I turned down to a point where this no longer happened and continued the rehearsal at that volume. When I got home, I took the grill off and saw that the drivers looked quite different, so I took them both out and at least one of them, if not both of them have been replaced, I didn't bring the 410 home so I can't check the drivers in that just yet. The first driver doesn't really have much information on it, so I think this one may be original? It's got a sticker on the side of the magnet saying Eminence 090-31004-000 101324 67-00435C 0355 8 Ohm I know the original drivers were eminence and the fact that this one doesn't have a model number that I can find might mean it's the original one? Is there any way I can find out some information on what this driver might be? The second driver is a Celestion BL10-200. Could the rattling I heard at volume be driver distortion or a problem related to the driver mismatch? I'm yet to put everything back in all tightened up and see if the rattle has gone, but I was just wondering if this is down to the drivers now. I know that it is important to choose the right drivers for the cabinet, so is there any way to tell whether or not these drivers will be ok in this cabinet? Is there any way to find out what the original drivers were? Thanks in advance, Tom

Thanks for the replies, I've got a 4 band EQ with 2 band parametric mid, and a 9 band graphic EQ on my amp, so I should think this will be more than adequate. I like quite a lot of mids in my sound, so that's another plus for the Jacks. I think a pair of these might be on the cards as soon as I have got the time and the resources. Cheers, Tom

[quote name='bertbass' timestamp='1391004255' post='2352139'] But, there's always a but, I didn't like the sound that much. There's not a lot of deep bass. Plenty of mids ands highs but not a lot of depth. Don't get me wrong, the bass isn't missing, it's all there but it's not the sort of bass that comes out of the cabinet rolls across the stage, falls onto the floor and then up the trouser leg of anyone that's listening, if you know what I mean. [/quote] I've been thinking about building a pair of Jack 15's for a while, so I'm quite interested in this thread too. You say there isn't a lot of deep bass, can this be EQ'd in? From what I've heard/read these cabinets feature a very prominent midrange, so the midrange would sound a lot louder than the bass, more so than in most standard cab configs which often feature quite a scooped sound. If you were too cut the mids a bit and boost the bass, could you realistically get this cab to produce the bass you are missing at moderate volumes? I don't think I really use a lot of deep lows very often, so it probably wouldn't bother me anyway, but it would be interesting to know how these take bass EQ. Thanks in advance, Cheers, Tom

[quote name='Conan' timestamp='1386238317' post='2297475'] Thanks for the review. How did you find the dispersion? Which cab(s) are you accustomed to using? [/quote] To be honest, we rehearse in quite a small space, so there wasn't much chance to move around a lot to see what the dispersion is like, so I can't really comment on that. However, the other members of the band weren't asking me to turn up constantly like they normally do, so I think that it must be better than my current cabs. I'm used to using an Ashdown Mag C115 with the 115 extension cab, and whilst I do like the sound that I get from that, it is not loud enough or maybe doesn't cut through very well. The TKS could go louder and it seemed to cut through much better for any given setting on the amp. The TKS was much more responsive to changing the settings on the amp aswell. Hope this helps, Tom

[size="2"][color="#1e1e1e"][font="Helvetica, sans-serif"]I've had the TKS 115 on loan for the past fortnight, I've not had any chance to gig it, but it's had 3 loud rehearsals in an originals rock band. [/font][/color][/size]Firstly, as everyone else has said, the fit and finish on these cabs is great, straight away they look very impressive. [size="2"][color="#1e1e1e"][font="Helvetica, sans-serif"]The first rehearsal was also the first time I used my new amp, so I was also trying to get used to that. I think this was the main reason I was not overly impressed with it initially, not because either the cab or the amp were bad, I just had to find a sound that I liked. Set flat, it didn't have the low I was used to, probably due to a very forward high end due to the tweeter. Boosting the bass and low mids filled out the sound and if you EQ it in, this cab can deliver huge bass. The tweeter is very powerful so I tended to have it on very low if at all. Once I had found a sound that I liked from the amp, this cab sounded fantastic. [/font][/color][/size] [size="2"][color="#1e1e1e"][font="Helvetica, sans-serif"]The amp I use is a Carvin BX500 which delivers 300 watts into 8 Ohms and this cab could take all of it with ease, but I really didn't have to turn this up anywhere near full to cut through. I really enjoyed the rehearsals with this cab and TKS will definitely be on the list of bass cabs to look at when I can afford to upgrade my current cabs.[/font][/color][/size]