[quote name='largo' post='954064' date='Sep 12 2010, 09:27 PM']I've already had the "Tour" Compact and liked it so much I bought one.
One word of warning I have to add. I used to have a Schroeder "carpet covered" cab and instead now use a single Compact. The cab is kept in a trailer with all of the other band gear. For the record, the Schroeder after 2 or 3 years of gigging looked almost like new ! The Compact with Roqsolid cover after a month looks beat up already. Chips out of the painted covering and worryingly, heavy scarring where a flightcase has rubbed against the Compact and the ply is seriously dented. Alex, please, please, please give us a carpet cover option ! I'd happily have an extra 1kg of weight for slightly heavier plywood and a carpet finish.[/quote]
Like yours, my compact sees a lot of action too except I have no cover for it and I've had it probably going on two years now. In and out of vehicles and through lots of tight doorways. I've plenty of chips out of mine, some down to and out of the ply itself. Must admit to having wanted carpet covering but now I just shrug my shoulders and cover them up with marker pen.
[quote name='alexclaber' post='955414' date='Sep 13 2010, 09:25 PM']The extra loudness from a 4 ohm version of the Compact is too marginal to be worthwhile, especially as it removes the option of adding a second cab (be that Midget or Compact) for a useful increase in output.[/quote]
Indeed. I use a QSC PLX 1200W beast bridged straight into the compact for a lot of gigs and all rehearsals. That means it's taking 700W and I can definitely hear a difference in volume between volume setting 9 and 10! However, It's when I add a second cab that I really get the best out of both the amp and the cabs.
Strangely though, I don't get as much apparent volume when I use the amp in parallel mode (two channels separate) with 3 cabs (see avatar, one of which is for sale, hint hint) with the bottom 2 getting ~170W each and the compact getting 200W. Maybe because that still adds up to 'only' about 550W. More experimentation is needed.
I too am keen to get my hands on they tour Compact, however.