VERY lightweight Genzler cabs - new line

[Musicman20]

Interesting!
 

https://genzleramplification.com/?srsltid=AfmBOoqo25EeA9_f_isahry1wyJSTaP22cbTo1LwvxQGGo26KveH30y0

[tauzero]

Why don't they give the weights in proper instead of groats and furlongs, or at least as well of them? I don't want to have to divide things by 2.2 to get a proper answer. Perhaps they don't want to sell outside primitive countries.

[BassAdder60]

Expensive but very nice for now I will stick with my 17kg 2x12 MarkBass Cab costing less than £700 

[Alec]

On 23/01/2026 at 00:32, tauzero said:

Why don't they give the weights in proper instead of groats and furlongs, or at least as well of them? I don't want to have to divide things by 2.2 to get a proper answer. Perhaps they don't want to sell outside primitive countries.

It's bizarre, isn't it.  Their tape measures don't even have cm/mm on them... 

[Apeneck Sweeney]

On 23/01/2026 at 00:32, tauzero said:

Why don't they give the weights in proper instead of groats and furlongs, or at least as well of them? I don't want to have to divide things by 2.2 to get a proper answer. Perhaps they don't want to sell outside primitive countries.

 

They couldn't make their mind up.  Dimensions – HxWxD.    26.125″ x 14.25″ x 14″.            if you're going to use imperial then use imperial please  :  26 1/8" x 14 2/8" x 14

 

Not a hill I'm prepared to die on (unlike the millennium starting on Jan 1st 2001, though I eventually gave up on that too)

 

On topic:

The cabs look good though.

Edited January 29 by Apeneck Sweeney
added some positivity at the end

[tauzero]

On 29/01/2026 at 20:16, Apeneck Sweeney said:

Not a hill I'm prepared to die on (unlike the millennium starting on Jan 1st 2001, though I eventually gave up on that too)

 

If you were prepared to overlook pedantry, you could have celebrated twice. Like I did.

[chris_b]

The handles on  the 112 are not in the right place for a balanced lift and carry.

[Downunderwonder]

5 hours ago, chris_b said:

The handles on  the 112 are not in the right place for a balanced lift and carry.

9kg is not your usual 112. It should dangle ok.

 

The dangle might help the near side clear your knee just a little as you handbag it.

 

Easier to 'put' up on a shelf or into a small car boot with the handle like it is.

[Bill Fitzmaurice]

On 22/01/2026 at 19:32, tauzero said:

Why don't they give the weights in proper instead of groats and furlongs, or at least as well of them? .

So when I watch British TV programs (which is almost every day) why do they keep referring to feet, pounds and miles per hour? 🤔 It reminds me of the story of the man who was confused while visiting Quebec. The faucets in his bathroom were both marked C. When he asked the front desk why they both said 'C' the clerk replied 'the one C stands for Cold. The other stands for Chaud. We are bi-lingual.' 

Edited January 31 by Bill Fitzmaurice

[warwickhunt]

1 hour ago, Bill Fitzmaurice said:

So when I watch British TV programs (which is almost every day) why do they keep referring to feet, pounds and miles per hour? 🤔

 

Don't get me started Bill!  As a school teacher I was required to educate pupils from Y1 to 6th form to be able to use feet, inches, miles, oz, lbs, pints, gallons (but not quarts) etc AND mm, cm, km, ml, L et al... still teaching this even though we went decimal 55 years ago!  Honestly it used to do my head in!  

 

I should add that I was still doing this up to 7 years ago when I retired aged 55.21 years.  

 

 

Edited January 31 by warwickhunt

[chris_b]

I still measure myself in feet and inches and stones, pounds and ounces. If it ain't broke. . . .

 

I drive miles in the car and fill it in £'s, not those silly litres things.

[Chienmortbb]

It frustrates the hell out of me, Brits using Imperial measurements. I am 74, I grew up with the Imperial system but when I started in Engineering in the late 60s, I had to change to the SI system. Imperial disappeared for the public 50 odd years ago. Get over it. You would not want to buy something fitted with UNC or UNF threads on the screws, why live your life in the past? 

 

Now I have to decide whether to take my 34" or 30" bass to rehearsal.🤣

[Bill Fitzmaurice]

1 hour ago, Chienmortbb said:

 You would not want to buy something fitted with UNC or UNF threads on the screws, why live your life in the past? 

In the US metric hardware, as in nuts and bolts, have pretty much replaced Imperial entirely. It started with cars, when the best selling cars in the US were all Japanese, and the US manufacturers were forced to follow suit. It became complete when almost every product made was of Chinese origin. But as for going full metric about the only product that has done so is alcohol. 

[Chienmortbb]

In a bar you buy beer by the pint and spirits in cl.

[tauzero]

7 hours ago, Bill Fitzmaurice said:

So when I watch British TV programs (which is almost every day) why do they keep referring to feet, pounds and miles per hour? 🤔 It reminds me of the story of the man who was confused while visiting Quebec. The faucets in his bathroom were both marked C. When he asked the front desk why they both said 'C' the clerk replied 'the one C stands for Cold. The other stands for Chaud. We are bi-lingual.' 

 

Because there is a reactionary lobby in the UK, and old f*ckers refuse to move to the metric system because they're morons who hate change, instead insisting that young people brought up in the metric system use the stupid ludicrous primitive imperial system instead. We've got as far as degrees Celcius and selling food and petrol in grams and litres, but we have such oddities as the jack length in indoor bowls being given in metres but bowl distances from the jack being given in feet and inches, and petrol being sold in litres to enable us to drive along roads measured in miles at speeds measured in miles per hour. And if R*f*rm should by some dreadful mischance win the next election, expect this all to go backwards, the metric system to be unravelled, and currency to go back to LSD (which is what we may have to take to try and escape the dreadful reality).

 

As you can tell, I don't have any strong feelings on the subject.

[Lozz196]

Very pleasant

[Bill Fitzmaurice]

At least we're not using cubits, though they did manage to build the pyramids with them.

[acidbass]

Finally a front-ported vertical 2x10. Front ports just sound better to my ears, despite what audio boffins might tell me. How would this compare to a BF Retro 2x10? I'm tempted to change my current rig to one of the above two options, running a QC into a SD Powerstage.

[warwickhunt]

3 minutes ago, acidbass said:

Finally a front-ported vertical 2x10. Front ports just sound better to my ears, despite what audio boffins might tell me. How would this compare to a BF Retro 2x10? I'm tempted to change my current rig to one of the above two options, running a QC into a SD Powerstage.

 

Now therein lies a conundrum... you can hear a difference between front/rear ported cabs (despite the science saying otherwise), what would the validity of another listeners perception of a comparison be, if they can't hear a difference between front/rear porting?  

[chris_b]

39 minutes ago, warwickhunt said:

 

Now therein lies a conundrum... you can hear a difference between front/rear ported cabs (despite the science saying otherwise), what would the validity of another listeners perception of a comparison be, if they can't hear a difference between front/rear porting?  

 

Maybe front vs rear doesn't sound different when you are standing in front of them, but I've been told by several drummers that rear ported bass cabs, when set up next to them, don't sound as good as front ported.

 

I prefer front ported. I was always moving guitar cases, covers and other pieces of gear stowed behind my cabs, in the space I left for the rear ports!!