Phil Jones Bass Engine17

[DTB]

Ended up with the above after looking at and listening to several practice amps. 
For a small combo it has a lot of bass. 
It is actually almost a mini PA system and reminds me very much of my old Ashdown acoustic amp, but with less controls. 
Bluetooth music sounds okay from my iPhone, almost good actually. 
To get a decent snappy crisp bass tone with plenty of presence and definition and any kind of decent jazz bass growl I still need to use my valve preamp, but it sounds better than my small recording guitar cab which is what I was using. 
Although, one of the reviews I saw on facetube, it had a lovely growly tone with just a passive jazz bass with the tone control wide open, so it might just be my Sire bass has less oomph.

Nice quality and solid construction. No nasty vibration or rattles even at full volume. 
Think I will be getting one of the Ashdown new British made 100 watt single 10 combos. They have valve crunch built in to the preamp. Whenever I make a purchase of a significant bit of gear i never get it right first time, but then the grass is always greener……… 

 

i was trying to add a post to say actually it does sound quite good having re-arranged my practice room, without using the valve pre. Has a nice growl to it. 
Operator error first time. 
 

Edited 24 minutes ago by DTB