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[quote name='Stan_da_man' post='152643' date='Mar 6 2008, 07:57 PM']It's post 06 so it shouldn't have a problem...NOT! I am never buying Ashdown again. I gave 'em a chance and their chance is gone. I knew I should have bought the Peavey Tour 450 now. :)[/quote]

I think you're getting confused. Machines meant that the pre 06 MAG/ABM models had problems with the mains transformer, but post 06 models don't (mine is fine) . You have (or had) a Superfly from the Ashdown Labs series, which is totally different. They didn't exist in 2006 I don't think.

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[quote name='Stan_da_man' post='151925' date='Mar 5 2008, 06:30 PM']I recently purchased a Ashdown Superfly bass head. As soon as I turned it on, the head starts emitting a high frequency pitch which is very noticeable, especially at low levels. I tried new leads, basses, speaker connecters and different ohm settings but the noise still remained. When the head is not plugged into anything and turned on it emits no noise, but as soon as its plugged into a cabinet the high pitched noise starts again.

Any ideas?[/quote]

I bought a Superfly not long ago and mine also does the high-pitched whine, but only through the output furthest from the mains input - the other output is fine. When using the noisy output, the whine totally disappears when I switch off the tweeter on my 2x10 cab.

As I only use a single cab at present and am otherwise well impressed with the Superfly, I haven't bothered sending it back. If I ever do hook up a second cab, it would most probably be a 1x15 (no tweeter), so the whine problem most probably wouldn't be audible.

I still think the Superfly is a great concept and can't understand why Ashdown have dropped it totally, rather than sorting out the QC issues.

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[quote name='Hamster' post='152574' date='Mar 6 2008, 06:22 PM']The power board problem arose with the last batch of Superfly heads - if yours was bought some time ago, or was NOS you're lucky. I bought one from Soundcontrol when they were knocking them out for £199. It was faulty so I took it back and tried the other 13 Superfly heads they had in stock - they were all defective.

It's really noticible when you roll back on the lows and boost the treble. Turn off your tweeters and roll off the highs and you might not notice it.

The other Ashdown MAG / ABM heads are also known for the QC problems with the mains transformer burning out, (which also happened with my ABM head.) I won't be buying Ashdown again.

Hamster[/quote]

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[quote name='Krysbass' post='153011' date='Mar 7 2008, 12:53 PM']I still think the Superfly is a great concept and can't understand why Ashdown have dropped it totally, rather than sorting out the QC issues.[/quote]

Enter the LittleGiant..

350w: [url="http://www.ashdownmusic.com/bass/detail.asp?section=labs&ID=211"]http://www.ashdownmusic.com/bass/detail.as...labs&ID=211[/url]

1000w: [url="http://www.ashdownmusic.com/bass/detail.asp?section=labs&ID=212"]http://www.ashdownmusic.com/bass/detail.as...labs&ID=212[/url]

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[quote name='Machines' post='153166' date='Mar 7 2008, 03:51 PM']Enter the LittleGiant..

350w: [url="http://www.ashdownmusic.com/bass/detail.asp?section=labs&ID=211"]http://www.ashdownmusic.com/bass/detail.as...labs&ID=211[/url]

1000w: [url="http://www.ashdownmusic.com/bass/detail.asp?section=labs&ID=212"]http://www.ashdownmusic.com/bass/detail.as...labs&ID=212[/url][/quote]

If the new Little Giant amps overcome the QC problems, then I'd probably consider one as my next amp.

However, the Little Giant has no progammability and no illuminated display, both of which were useful (if not exactly critical) features on the Superfly. I'd imagine the parametric EQ takes a bit of getting used to as well?

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[quote name='jono b' post='153694' date='Mar 8 2008, 06:45 PM']So how do the Little Giant heads work then? I heard mention of bi-amping in regards to these, but have no idea what that means. Presumably you have to run it through 2cabs to get full whack out of it?[/quote]

The 350 works just like any other amp - single power stage delivering 350 watts into 4 ohms.
The 1000 works like the superfly (you'll need two 4 ohm cabs or four 8 ohm cabs etc.) to get full power.

Hope that helps...

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