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Avatar players - your opinion?

Really wanting a new Avatar cab... (black tolex/black+silver weave grill) I need a cab that's clean, focused, and versatile... in both tone and power handling jazz/covers/CCM/classic rock/etc... from Monk to Creedence to Michael W Smith to funk :-)

Question is to you Avatar guys because you actually play these cabs: I have heard it said that there is a big hole in the 410NEO response in the upper mids... What's the deal? I could go either way, 2x12 or 4x10, but I'm leaning toward the 410. Which would you say would be better in my case? If I need to get big and use up both sides of my BX1500, I could add a cab and bi-amp, but usually it would just be one cab.
 
I have an avatar 410 neo and i dont really understand when people say it has a hole in the upper mids. If anything i find it has very forward upper mids compared to my other cabs. I find that avatar cab is incredible, huge lows, punchy mids and lots of top end. If your looking for a clean focused bass sound with great lows and top end i dont think you could do much better than the avatar 410.
 
I have an avatar 410 neo and i dont really understand when people say it has a hole in the upper mids. If anything i find it has very forward upper mids compared to my other cabs. I find that avatar cab is incredible, huge lows, punchy mids and lots of top end. If your looking for a clean focused bass sound with great lows and top end i dont think you could do much better than the avatar 410.

+1!!!

I'm using two Avatar Neo 210 cabinets as a vertical 410...
Great sounding rig.
 
Sounds like both are good - 410 may be more my ticket. I was thinking that any cab will have some natural frequency preferences, but this BX1500 amp does have a lot of EQ, so I should have control.
 
Been using a Neo 410 and it punches really good. 1000 watts so you don't have to be shy hittin it with some juice. It's very much a full range cab so whatever you need out of it, it will give you. Very nice sounding cab, and loud. Holes? Never noticed any.