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[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1323529431' post='1464244'] " ..... and has the patience of a saint ..." [/quote] Consider this excerpt of an important email I sent to Alex in the back-and-forth as I was ordering my cabs : "...custom gold-sparkle flame-job duratex, ...pimped out (fake) tiger fur-lined handles,.. oh and chrome round metal grills on each driver.... oh, and I want a cutout for my tremendous package when I bend over to pick it up..." So for like a whole 5 hours I'm anxiously pacing around, waiting for a reply. Why is it taking so long for him to answer such an important email? Then I realized it was like 4am there in the UK. Well, doesn't he get an audible alarm tone when my emails come in? This is important, he should get up and answer me right away !! Alex, beware: THIS is the level of reality your target market is on as you introduce your cabs to America. Anyways, the next morning the reply is there, which is basically "Settle down, Son" A month or so later I had my cabs. On the day I got them Alex was very prompt in replying a few times regarding some fine tuning/tightening, some bank problems I had in sending the $, and about power levels. It's been 72 gigs, and the cabs (BB and BBT) are basically as loud as I can get them every show (usually with about 550 watts apiece from a qsc 3120) They still look and sound new, and have no doubt improved my playing

[quote name='alexclaber' timestamp='1318698172' post='1405391']It's a beast isn't it?! I'm glad we've finally got this model into production because it's really special - there are other expensive 2x12" cabs out there but none have the combination of deep tuning, huge power handling, massive volume displacement, flat frequency response on and off-axis, which give the incredible tone and output. Few 4x12" cabs can play louder and only Acme Low-B cabs go lower (but you'd need twice as many to match the output). It's more articulate than any other bass cab I've heard - the detail it picks up with clean sounds is lovely but a bit too revealing if you're not in the zone! ![/quote] This basically sums up my experience for the last month gigging 5-6 times a week with my two Big Baby's. My previous cabs were two Acme LowB 2's (two 2x10's). Even given the lower tuning of the Acme's, the Barefaced cabs seem much louder from low B down to F#, even though the Big Baby's are getting only half the watts the Acme's were getting, and even though the surface area of the BB's 2 12's only equals the surface area of about three of the Acme's 10's. It must be those VD and Xmax specs, which I am only beginning to understand after reading the website a couple hundred times. So, perhaps it's harmonics or overtones that I'm hearing, but with the same EQ and level settings the Barefaced cabs just seem louder down low at around half the watts. Forget about comparing the midrange response between the two -- it's not even close!