Recent content by Jim Bergantino

Blocking the hole will eliminate the passive radiator aspect, but it will change the voicing of the cab. You will get a little more lower end extension given you added cabinet volume to the two remaining woofers, but you will do so at the expense of less fatness and punch, not to mention less...

Did you say you disconnected one the the 12" woofers in the NV312T? Please reconnect it if you did as to not cause any potential issues with the cab. Having a free floating woofer in the cab can cause more issues than is "solves". Meaning it solves nothing. If anything, you turned a sealed...

I understand. Just saying with a dedicated speaker profile vs the generic one you may find less of a need for the punch feature. Be sure to try it both ways.

It’s hard to say as I would have no way of knowing without actually measuring the response of that cab. One thing to be sure of when trying out these different profiles is to be sure to start with the punch function disengaged and all tone controls flat at 12:00. A lot of players use the punch...

My response was based on your statement about just reloading the Ultra firmware “with no profile” which isn’t the case. It does have a profile, just a generic one. Which is why I corrected you because you were “wrong”, capiche’!😎

You’re wrong, very wrong!;-). All our forte’ amps come with a speaker profile, but a more general one as I call it. With these specific profiles, it precisely eqs the speaker it is made for because it is based on actual acoustic measurements of that speaker. When using a dedicated firmware...

That’s correct. Switching between drives with the original firmware has been replaced with switching between voicings and is independent of whether or not the drive is engaged. In other words, the voicings are completely independent of the drive circuit although they’re toggled utilizing the...

To try to answer your questions, the recently added firmware options have dedicated speaker profiles for a specific cab which is part of the file name. All of our forte’ amps, both HP’s and regular forte’s ship with a generic speaker profile. So first and foremost we’re swapping out the...

Thank you very much for reporting your experience with the new firmware. I wish more players understood how much of a difference a properly eq’d speaker can make with their playing experience when every note up and down the neck comes at you at the same level. No more having to play to your...

I think you may be overthinking where the cab is tuned vs end result. Sure there are differences but not enough IMO to determine the design of the cab and what the cab is tuned to. There’s a lot of factors that go into the end result and parameters of the design. However, given the reason...

As I’ve said many times, I would put any of our original HT series of cabinets up against any cab currently on the market, including our own, and have them compete very easily and favorably with them purely from a tone and performance perspective. The reason you see our designs evolving over...

The HT115 on top of the HT322 is a very formidable stack! We no longer offer replacement parts for any of these cabs except the tweeter diaphragms. We can match fairly closely the 12" and 15" woofers with some currently available ones, but the 10" woofers are a unique and proprietary design.

JFYI, you can use/download the ULTRA NXT212 firmware update on our website for your NXT212SE if you want to have the IP experience with your Ultra and 212 cab.

Those were the days!;-). We are now recapturing the original IP concept for our entire series of HP amps by putting firmware updates on our website for our current lineup of speakers such that it will contain the specific DSP based speaker profile for the cabinet(s) the firmware is dedicated...

9 or 18!😲