Maybe it's just me, but I used GS212 cabs. Two of them. I especially liked how they did not shy back when I used a bass with a B string and boosted the bass frequencies. But my guess is that the 8 ohm 212 cab has different speakers than the 8 ohm 112. However, I did not find that same boldness in the SL cabinets, which came, at that price level, as a bit of a disappointment to me.
I, too, was quite fond of the sound I got out of the GS cabs, but not so much fond of the fact that I had to lug around 150lbs of cabinet to a gig where I needed both of them.
My personal search for something that gave me similar output (or at least similar in the parts that matter to me) with less weight led me away from aguilar then.
In my neck of the woods, the SL112 is about as expensive as the barefaced Super Compact.
Which is about as loud as my GS 212 and weighs less than the SL112.
I flipped my GS cabs and bought a barefaced Super Compact and Super Midget. I lost more than 100lbs weight in my rig and have a smaller footprint, yet still sufficient power. Sufficient power in my book means that I can turn up the amp to a level where I can stand in front of my rig, play a G and loose the ability to see properly because the sheer force of bass my rig sends off make my eyeballs vibrate in their sockets. When at that level, I still have some headroom left, I consider my rig loud enough. The aggies were able to do that without breaking a sweat and the barefaced cabs do it, too.
My back is glad, because both barefaced cabs combined weigh in at less than 2/3 of one of the aguilars.
The bass is still massive. The aguilars had 4 12 inch cabs and 2 horns, whereas the barefaced cabs sport only half of that. In my book, the aguilar horn provides a magic sparkle top end that is something special. I do not care for such things too much and usually have only one of the horns switched on and dialed back so far it's barely audible. If you're into these things, the barefaced Big Baby is the way to go, it comes with a huge horn.
Apart from that, I always found the GS to be quite in the middle of the road. Sure there's that mid scoop. That can easily be fixed with a little mid hump on any of the EQs in the chain. Apart from that, they neither emphasize certain frequencies nor do they back off others (as long as we're talking bass guitar, that is).
The barefaced cabs are the same, minus the mid scoop.
