Ashdown RM800 EVO II - Please Read - *SOLD* £285 Cornwall

[Waddycall]

Ashdown RM 800 EVO II for sale.

I bought this amp new from Musik Produktiv in September last year.

Initial was a bit a disappointing and I put it back in its box until January this year when I sent it back to Ashdown for the following issues-

 

apparent low output

lack of volume increase after 10 o’clock on the volume pot

noisy headphone output

 

Dave Green at Ashdown has made corrections to the VU sensitivity and adjusted the input sensitivity. This was the cause of the apparent low output. It has been bench tested at Ashdown and is outputting the full 800W. The master volume pot was also replaced with one that gives a linear increase in volume as it’s turned up. The taper on the original gave most of the volume increase in the first third of its operation (apparently to impress people trying them out in shops).

it was then returned a second time as the noises noted when using headphones was still there if much much quieter. It has been checked again by Ashdown and returned.

I believe there is some signal interference from the operation of the green light in the VU meter. It is now very very quiet and necessitates a significant increase in the treble control and some use of compression to hear it. It appears from other threads that this noise is common to this model when using headphones. Perhaps my cab is transparent enough to hear it in normal use. It’s  not audible when playing with a band. I suspect that most of the EVO IIs are like this.

 

fundamentally this is an as new unit that has been fully set up by Ashdown and given the all clear.

 

happy to post at buyers expense. It still has all the original and well proven packaging.

 

 

Edited February 27, 2022 by Waddycall

[Merton]

I had a noisy headphone output on my RM800 and was told to use cheaper, shittier headphones 🤣 I think it’s just an inherent part of the design, it picks up a tiny bit of the PWM signal of the SMPS is what Guy and Dave told me when I stood in their workshop. Don’t think it’s unique to your RM at all!

 

Anyhoo, great price for a head I really liked when I had it

[Waddycall]

Now sold