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12-13-2010, 04:39 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Baltimore, MD | | | Hartke 410: VX vx. XL
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What's the difference in sound between these two? My local GC has both. An XL for $249 and a VX for $199. Is the XL worth the extra $50?
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12-13-2010, 07:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: new jersey shore | | | The XL is a better cab to me but if you can find a 4.5XL better yet.
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12-13-2010, 07:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Chicago, IL | | | XL is way better. I owned the VX for a while. If I could do it again I'd get the XL.
... but NOT the Transporter!
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12-13-2010, 07:58 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: NYC | | | I've played through the VX 410 and 810 at a couple different rehearsal studios and always got a good sound out of them. I never really pushed them so not sure how they'd handle high volumes. I like the XL series too. |
12-14-2010, 06:26 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Baltimore, MD | | | Thanks guys, I'll grab the xl. |
12-14-2010, 06:30 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Baltimore, MD | | Quote:
Originally Posted by lazyone2  The XL is a better cab to me but if you can find a 4.5XL better yet. | It is a 4.5xl I'm looking at for 249. (Just checked) |
12-14-2010, 06:31 AM
| | | | the VX has paper cones, and the XL has the Hartke standard aluminium cones,
so the XL is going to sound a bit sharper and brighter,
and damn that thing is cheap, when I bought mine they were about 700 dollars,
(maybe I just got a bad deal :P)
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12-14-2010, 06:38 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Belgium (Antwerp) | | | Grab that 4.5XL!!
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12-14-2010, 07:16 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Metro D.C. and Brooklyn, NY | | | I had an XL back in the mid 90's, probably one of the best cabs I ever heard. Back then they couldn't handle too much power, I think mine was rated at 350 watts (matched to the 3500 head I also had). I wouldn't hesitate to get the 4.5XL...no hesitation at all.
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12-14-2010, 08:24 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Boston, Taxachusetts | | | Prior to their recent HyDrive series, the XL was the Hartke cabinet. Transporter and VX are budget models. Not for everyone, but a great road-tested cabinet. |
12-14-2010, 08:34 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Belgium (Antwerp) | | Quote:
Originally Posted by eastcoasteddie I had an XL back in the mid 90's, probably one of the best cabs I ever heard. Back then they couldn't handle too much power, I think mine was rated at 350 watts (matched to the 3500 head I also had). I wouldn't hesitate to get the 4.5XL...no hesitation at all. | rated 240 watt @ 8 ohm says the label at the back of my XL's ... not really power hungry 
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12-14-2010, 08:40 AM
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Originally Posted by perogato02 rated 240 watt @ 8 ohm says the label at the back of my XL's ... not really power hungry | Ah yes....I remember that now. When I wrote 350 watts before, I just knew that number wasn't correct. But I do remember that the 3500 head did put out 240w at 8 ohms, (350 at 4 ohms), so in that sense, the cab was matched to the head. Thanks for jogging the ol' melon 
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