The bass sound is quite righteous. Nice.
OK, but what are the details on the cab? Sadly, the Big E website is a bit non-intuitive. Mike, I looked at your page, and I don't see the 210. I did find it here in this thread, and on FB, sort of.
How can one get a ballpark idea of pricing?
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I have to apologize. I (and we) have been sooooo busy designing , tweaking and tweaking and tweaking,....... Steve at Big E has been enormously helpful. Beside from spending so much time with the implementation process he's doing the web site. The problem is me. I have to give him all of the information. Which I will. I'm starting to get decent pictures right now.
The MAS 210Flex (that's the 210 cab) utilizes two new 10 inchers from Eminence that have twice the output of a conventional 10 due to the fact that they are able to get more than twice the excursion of a conventional 10. And they go much, much lower. The Big E tecnology allows us to harness the rear wave of the speaker, amplify it a bit, and recombine with the front wave. So the 210 Flex goes about the same volume as an 810. Or if you're looking at some of the upper end cabs (Berg and others) like a 610.
OK --technobabble time---
What we're able to achieve---these speakers don't excite room resonances nearly as much as other speakers. So the "boom" and overhang that you normally get in live situations is dramatically reduced. And the way the speaker is loaded is unique. It has more of the tautness and focus of a sealed box but with extension that rivals most reflex cabs. There is a complex series of chambers behind the speaker.
The unique things about the 210---
It's really 2 cabs kindof stacked on top of eachother. The lower cab has the rear vortex/waveguide optimized for the woofers. The upper portion house two 6 1/2" midranges that have a vortex/waveguide optimized for their frequency range. These are amazing midrange drivers from Italy. They have a frequency response from 100hz to 8khz. So---we can cross them over much lower than most mids. There are pricey, studio quality mids. These are cross firing across each other.
The tweeters are also pricey studio quality super tweeters from Italy. They are used in many of the uber expensive PA speakers.
We have this crazy switching system (4 switches) that subtly to dramatically change the sound/response of the cab. They do all sorts of things like changing crossover points, phase, series/parallel and at one point engaging a speaker protection/compression bulb. I can play a gig and on one tune get a huge vintage studio-sounding P Bass sound and hit a switch and on the next tune get a grindy Bernard Edwards Music man sound. Or disengage the tweeters and engage the bulb and get an SVT sort of sound. Or get a very neutral hifi sound.
An other thing these cabs do is get pretty crazy dispersion. Not just that, but the sound changes volume MUCH less with with distance. I can literally be directly on the side of the cab 10 feet away and hear myself amazingly well.Or I can set up with the drummer and me on opposite sides of the bandstand and the drummers always comment on how well they can hear me.
The Mas 210Flex is not a tiny cab. It's 32" high 26" wide and 14 1/2" deep. It weighs around 72#. More like a 410. But it will compete with something a lot bigger.
I'm still doing introductory pricing until there are more out there. I'll pm prices.
That level of bass articulation at stadium volumes.
