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Best sounding 15" cab

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These Bag Ends are unique. They appear to have abnormally low internal volume

yeah they sure Appear to, but they don't. consider this; at 18x18x15 deep they're essentially the same dimensions internally as your typical old school 1-15 or 2-15 Fender Showman/Kustom cab. those 2-15 cabs were roughly 11 deep by 24 wide, 36 high. a pair of Bag S15's go every bit as deep as them, which is down to low G, with your low E being about 3db down from G. i own a double D140 Kustom cab and i've compared it to a double S15D stack. where Bags trump those cabs, and decisively, is in efficiency (wow), clarity, speed and punch. no comparison. model for model they're the greatest bass cabs on planet earth afaic
 
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Chef said:
I like the fEARful based 115.

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That's just not fair. :( Beautiful cab.

M. M. :)
 
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marmadaddy said:
My all time favorite 15" was made by Joe's Sound and Salami. It was a New England thing I think. I had two of those stacked and they sounded phenomenal. Perfect combination of sound, durability and portability. Stolen over twenty years ago and I'd still like to get my hands on the POS that took them.

There were plans for them floating around the internet at one point I think.
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Back in the mid-1980s I worked for a Boston pro audio dealer that sold Joe's Sound & Salami cabs, and we sold a ton of those Thiel-type 1x15" with Electro-Voice and JBL drivers to bass players. They definitely sounded nice.

The weird thing though is that I have, on two separate occasions, had cabinets built based on the Joe's dims and loaded with an EVM-15B, and mine never sounded as good as the Joe's cabs! I think the super heavy-duty gazillion-ply construction had as much to do with their sound as the internal cabinet volume and port size/shape, because mine (built from more pedestrian 3/4" ply) lacked the authoritative punch and low frequency extension that I remember from the Joe's boxes.
 
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Here is a 1x15 shootout. http://www.talkbass.com/threads/booyah-the-1x15-shootout.358077/

I had a pair of the Ashdown ABM 115 compact cabs. Love the form factor of a 2x 115 rig. They were OK, but a little dark sounding. I also had (briefly) one of the larger Ashdown 15 cabs. Same driver, different box. Sold the big one off pretty fast. Gigged the two little ones for a while, but sold them off too.

Like I said, love the form factor of the 2x115 rig, so I have a pair of GB Bassic cabs on order... they are just taking a while:meh:
 
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Bob_Ross said:
Back in the mid-1980s I worked for a Boston pro audio dealer that sold Joe's Sound & Salami cabs, and we sold a ton of those Thiel-type 1x15" with Electro-Voice and JBL drivers to bass players. They definitely sounded nice.

The weird thing though is that I have, on two separate occasions, had cabinets built based on the Joe's dims and loaded with an EVM-15B, and mine never sounded as good as the Joe's cabs! I think the super heavy-duty gazillion-ply construction had as much to do with their sound as the internal cabinet volume and port size/shape, because mine (built from more pedestrian 3/4" ply) lacked the authoritative punch and low frequency extension that I remember from the Joe's boxes.
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I think you're right about the construction. Fortunately they were small enough that they weren't too heavy even with that wood. Which store did you work for? It's entirely possible that you sold me those cabs.
 
#51
George Mann said:
These Bag Ends are unique. They appear to have abnormally low internal volume, and produce tonal qualities approaching that of a 10" driver!
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I am no audio guru but I think the Bag Ends are a great design. They are not super deep but punch hard in the audible frequencies. I think Modular Sound Systems, Bag End's home, know what they are doing. They design and install sound systems all over.
 
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pgk said:
These Bag Ends are unique. They appear to have abnormally low internal volume

yeah they sure Appear to, but they don't. consider this; at 18x18x15 deep they're essentially the same dimensions internally as your typical old school 1-15 or 2-15 Fender Showman/Kustom cab. those 2-15 cabs were roughly 11 deep by 24 wide, 36 high. a pair of Bag S15's go every bit as deep as them, which is down to low G, with your low E being about 3db down from G. i own a double D140 Kustom cab and i've compared it to a double S15D stack. where Bags trump those cabs, and decisively, is in efficiency (wow), clarity, speed and punch. no comparison. model for model they're the greatest bass cabs on planet earth afaic
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I can dig it.
 

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