I'd say its certainly powerful enough. I run an F1 through a Berg "S" stack (ht210s, ht122s), which is notoriously power hungry, and in my opinion, it absolutely kills with those cabs. So yeah IMO definitely powerful enough.
Definitely take him with you and let him play things and decide.
I can speak from experience, even though my tastes have changed since I was 16, I would never think of letting go of the bass I picked up when I was 16. I worked three summers with my pops, helping around his shop the best I...
I have a friend classical guitar player who was talking about "tapered fingernails," which allow you to have your nails to be much shorter than the traditional style. It also allowed a more angled right hand position. I'll drop him an email in a bit and send you a PM, but anyway this may be...
+1
A friend turned me away from the Gjr.'s for similar complaints.
As for the HT210s, I'd definitely think the negative responses to the HT210s probably stem from its power hungry nature. My experience with the HT210s is the farthest thing from negative, however. It is a pristine...
Heh.
1) Old G&L SB-1 with Fralins and Flats.
2) Fender Jazz Fretless
3) Ric 4003 with rounds.
I can cop a pretty Fretted Jazz bass tone with the Ric and some compression. Anyway, messing with the Ric stopped my Jazz Bass GAS (at least for a bit)
+1 The gk combos really get the job done. I was in the same boat freshman year of highschool in Jazz band.
Just stay away from 115's and the such if you want to have something that sounds even close to decent for DB.
Shoot a PM if you want a longer conversation about anything.
The most annoying part about working with neodymium when we did in physics class was when the little fellows would break each other from attraction. Little scary the power of them...