BassmanPaul

Meaning no disrespect, I don't see the point of buying a powerful speaker cabinet and then castrating it by driving it with a 50W amp. Even in the Sixties 50W didn't get you too far.

I seem to remember that the VR was not too well received in the pages of TalkBass. It does strike me as being a bit on the expensive side. That said I have little experience of pricing in the UK.

You know, we don't really have to follow any topic from TalkBass. We are more than capable of coming up with topics of our own. Besides which we can spell better on this site than they do on TalkBass!!! LOL

@JPJ I gave you a like for the Gravitational field quip!! LOL

Congratulations on your new 'toy.' I hope it meets all your hopes and expectations.

As someone who just went through Prostate Laser surgery yesterday I can assure you size does indeed matter!!! Moan. ;(

For his sake I hope he didn't!

To me that is a full on positive!!

@DaveBassMan2115 Try plugging a signal cable between the Send and Return of the Effects Loop to see it that helps. Corroded normalizing contacts on these jacks have caused a lot of problems in the past. If it solves the problem leave a short cable like between effects pedals in place.

Carlsbro tube amps of that era were not too bad. Like most SS amps built at the time the Carlsbro range had little to offer.

It should tell you what is what on the back of the amp.

Buy the four conductor Speakon as it appears to be a standard across cabinetry manufacturers. Wire the two conductors of the speaker cable to Plus1 and minus1. That's all there is to it.

Phone jacks were developed for use in telephone switchboards. They were designed to work with 48V DC at a couple of hundred milliamps. When being plugged into or withdrawn from a socket a momentary short circuit occurs which isn't good for a SS amp. Ampeg used an XLR on the back of its B15 series speaker cabinets. If your amp has XLR speaker outputs and the cabinet has a SpeakOn then by all means use an XLR.SpeakOn cable.

That's FedEx for you and UPS are even worse!

I use 12 gauge cable meant for landscape lighting. It's tough, durable and doesn't tangle too easily. Never gives me any problems. As a point I do recommend that all speaker cables, especially those used with higher powered amps, be terminated with Neutrik brand NL4 SpeakOn connectors. The far east versions can and do cause problems. The nL4 connector seems to be the standard installed on all my cabinets. Using 1/4" Phone jacks is not good for an amplifier and simply cannot handle the current requirements of such amplifiers.

With any new to you amplifier you have to invest time to learn how to use it. If you don't do this you'll never be able to get the best out of it!

@Elfrasho If you still have it get the connectors cleaned. That might just restore it to working order.

A lot of said problems were centred around the connectors of the multi strand cables that tied the various PC boards together. My computer sound system uses a DCM150 as a power amp. One channel recently started acting up. I cleaned said connectors and the fault went away.

If I was wanting a dedicated Class D bass amp I'd go for the Mesa TT800. It has two distinct flavours of tonality. I want one myself but I'm not playing out anymore and I'm disposing all of my current collection of stuff.

My first thoughts are: who's doing the mixing? What is he doing to the bass channel? How are you connecting to the mixer? all these questions are important. If the guy doing the actual mixing is new to the game he could well be cutting bass frequencies for some reason.

I haven't tried to gig with a 100W amp since the Sixties. It struggled then and I feel it would struggle today. YMMV

None of my Carvin made equipment have given any trouble at all. I have four of their Class D power amps. A bolt on five string I built from their parts with my own designed and built pre-amp. I had three of their LB76 series basses. One an LB76WP was sent to England for my Nephew to play. I also sent him a Class D BX1500 bass amp to play through. I still have an LB76 in white and an LB76F made from Koa. What I call my Small PA has a 1KW power amp and a Carvin IEM system with five receivers. My big PA has a 3KW capable power amp for Mains and a four channel 500W per for monitors. My PA speakers are Carvin with 15" drivers. I have used a plethora of Carvin raw speakers in some of my amplifier/cabinet builds and they have always given great service. Edit: I should add that my actual bass amp is a 2KW capable Carvin Class D power amp driven by a tube pre-amp I designed and built to push it. .

Personally I miss Carvin. I own a lot of their stuff. I did NOT appreciate them suddenly cancelling all my warranties on said equipment!!! I would not put my trust in a company who'd treat a faithful customer in such a cavalier manner.

I'm slowly disposing of all of my music;al gear. I have moved a lot of rack mount units over to someone else who can make use of it. My small PA will be going shortly. I still have two six string basses, one Fretless.. A Hofner Violin bass that needs a lot of love and wood working skills that will go to someone who wants it. My 63 Precision will not be going anywhere. I was playing that when I met my wife on June 06 1968. Some times I just shake my head at all of the music making equipment I have collected over more than sixty years of being a Bass player.

I've never actually tried one but I hear that they are great speaker cabinets.