Bam uses eminence

They are different than our other bass enclosure speakers (higher power handling).
I am not supposed to divulge vendor info, but I am *pretty sure* they are Eminence drivers.

 

Thanks G,
Glad to help.

 

I can't see anything wrong with divulging Eminence... as very few product manufacturers actually make their own drivers. Eminence is one of the world's largest speaker manufacturers. It is my understanding that Eminence offers thousands of canned T/S driver options that are available to OEMs in lots of 500 and higher.

 

It's not that were ashamed to use Eminence, quite the contrary. We use lots of their speakers, mostly in our instrument amps. Even though we do manufacture some very fine speakers, I myself PREFER Eminence drivers and use them in all of my bass and guitar amps.

It's just company policy not to divulge vendor info. I don't know why. I suppose it's Hartley's way of keeping a "leg up" on the competition or something.

 

Nope, it's not in any other Peavey cabs (yet )
The speakers we are using the the other bass cabs can't handle the BAM's power in a 210 config.

I don't know if anyone else is using this speaker, I think it is a fairly new design. Probably so, it is an excellent speaker, and seems to really take a beating. I'll check and see if I can get the part#, and if they will let me post it I will.

 

I'd like to chime in, since Roger's around...
Is Peavey planning on a BAM head?

If you can't answer that, please atleast tell me that you can't.


Thanks.

 

Bgavin is right. Eminence is huge and they produce so many drivers for other companies. It's my understanding too that Eminence will make a custom driver so that it's not available outside of the company that it's made for. That could be the situation with Peavey for the Bam. It may very well be a custom driver; makes since anyway since it needs to be able to handle the power.

tapp

 

Did you check your owners manual?

 

There has been talk of a head version, and cabs. Engineers always need something to do, so they always have designs on the drawing board.

Whether there is ever one actually manufactured depends upon the bean counters, unfortunately.
I have seen some cool stuff that never got off the ground because engineering couldn't convice the higher ups it would sell.

I don't remember seeing the box tuning in the specs. I'll have to look Monday.

 

If it means anything, I, for one, would buy a BAM head. One of the only things holding me back from buying the BAM 210, right now, is the fact that I'm stuck with a 2x10 in the same casing as my head either way I go. I'm not saying that the 2x10's a bad configuration, but I like the freedom of cabinet selection that the head/cab unit offers, especially considering that I already have cabs, and it would be easier for me to only buy the head.

As a rule of the thumb, should I assume that if it's not released by the next NAMM, it's not going to be released?

 

Things tend to move slowly at Peavey. Any head version is just in the discussion faze. You couldn't expect to see anything in a Bam head till Summer NAMM at the earliest. Next year's Winter NAMM (2003) would be more likely (if at all).