BassmanPaul

Just as a comment: to get twice as loud you would need to increase power by ten times.

The distance only needs to be a few inches. Just saying'

If you go this route, stack them on their ends for a vertical 4x10. In my mind they are the best for dispersion around the room.

@spongebob I hope it serves you well. Enjoy.

Oor just unplug the amp when not in use. Plug the amp into a power bar that has a switch.

Damn good idea! You must protect your hearing. Your playing life will be far shorter than the length of your life. The two sets of hearing aids I was forced to buy cost $6000 for the first set and $8000 for the second. That's a lot of money that could have been spent on musical equipment!

Another Acme user!!!! Yea! Whoda thunk!

My Acme cabinets are rear ported. As long as there is a reasonable distance away from a wall they are unaffected.

I have been stacking my Acme B2 2x10 thus for many years. They have a better dispersion around the room this way. Two take up the same stage area as one., My amplifiers controls are more easily seen. All in all it's a winning configuration.

That's a colourful bass you have there.

As it's no longer an Ashdown product you should remove the name plate.

When I went to engineer school tubes were still a current technology and I learned a lot about them. With the output tubes available in the UK between 100 and 300W were about as far as you could go. I designed with what were easily available. In the late Seventies, now living in Toronto, I put together a 150W tube amp (6xEL34) and it worked well but still left me with distortion at higher volumes. I designed a fully solid state amp with 200W per channel into 2Ω to replace it. It too worked well, I still have the power amp in my work room. It's heavy but gave me the clean bass that I was looking for. I find designing with tubes a lot of fun. When I bought my first pair of Acme B2 cabinets I needed yet more power to drive them. At that time there were stereo power amps available at such cheap prices that I bought one. My current set up is a 2KW Class D stereo amp and I designed a two channel mono pre amp using tubes to drive it. I like what it does very much.

Fuzz on bass is why I left tube amps behind. When I started out fuzz was all most performing bass players could hope to attain. I still like to have a tube in my signal chain but not in my output section.

Probably the 'crack' you are hearing is the speaker voice coils hitting the back plate of the magnet structure.

Why? All you have to do to mute any amplifier is pull the guitar cable slightly out of the input jack.

My favourite cabinets are Acme B2. Available in 4 or 8Ω they are 2x10 three way boxes. I own four of the 4Ω version. I usually just use two in a vertical 4x10 stack. You should hear how well they handle a Low B! :)😊

Just heard on the news of ZZTOP's bassist Dusty Hill's passing. I learned so much from that man's skill set. I loved singing TUSH as well! In my mind he will be greatly missed!

Mine was made by a US company named Carvin. I have six or seven from the company. They have all functioned flawlessly. I doubt whether they are available to European purchasers. I also have three six string basses from them and a bolt on five string I built from their parts. Edit: Looks like they don't offer power amps any more.

But do they all move in the same direction at the same time?

If you are turning up the bass control you are asking for trouble because the drivers will NOT be able to handle boosted bass and higher power levels.

If you are using I/4" Phone plugs for your speaker connections, connect both cabinets together then apply a 9V battery across the tip and sleeve of the jack. You should hear a thump from both cabinets. Watch the cones in both cabinets and make sure that they all move in the same direction at the same time. If one moves in and the other out they'll never work happily together.

Are both cabinets working with the same polarity and what impedances are they?

We no longer can edit our posts. Trying to click the X in the top corner no longer works. OK found the Edit in the pull down.

As Trace Elliot is now Peavey VOX is now Korg. Gone are the days when playing through a VOX made you feel like you're getting somewhere in the music business.

For myself I like my amplifiers to be simple. I use clip on tuners so no need for a built in tuner. To mute my system I pull the instrument cable plug out of the amp's input jack slightly so no mute needed. UV lights are just used to illuminate panel markings. I did very much like the electro luminescent panel from the HH IC100 series amps. I though it was cool. I don't use rack effects so an effects loop is wasted on me.