For Fun: Suppose SUNN came back and...

[MEKer]

Offered a 500/1000 watt amp (with whatever other EQ/etc of course) along with a 4x12 cab at 8 ohms so you could add another and still be at a reasonable 4 ohm set up. Would you want it? I know...just dreaming.

 

[BassmanPaul]

Not the slightest interest!

 

[Hundred proof]

Dream on I guess ... I can live with my old 70 watt antique

 

[abarson]

1000 watts and 412? Nope, not in this lifetime, or when I'm reincarnated into a yak.

 

[Basshappi]

Only if it absolutely RAWKS!!!

 

[Rumbledore]

the form factor would be important to me, also SUNN themselves (NOT fender) would have to make them [for me to be interested]

 

[Hundred proof]

In today's world it would be offered as some sort of digital snapshot of (pick your era) a real Sunn amp with a class D power amp, driving a mile long x-max 1x12 cab with a midrange driver ... NO THANKS

 

[bassboysam]

nope.

 

[Stumbo]

300w Tube watts Sunn would be fun.

 

[dbase]

Dream on I guess ... I can live with my old 70 watt antique

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God .. I love that amp... I had that back in 1969-70 brand new and got out of music a year later.. That's the one with two KT88's. What a great club amp, filled the room. Sold my Fender P bass + the Sunn amp for $350 both in mint condition. Buyer only paid me $150 and skipped town and I never collected. Didn't care back then because I got a real job... damn I wish I kept it. Oh Well.

 

[alaskaleftybass]

Those who never played a Sunn amp/cab will never realize the thunder they produced. Unless my memory is romanticizing it, those amps were powerful with full bottom end. Just like Ampeg retains it sound as it evolves, if Sunn evolved and retained its sound (tube pre) I would be interested. I always loved the style of the amps too. The logo, the shape of the cabs, trimmings, they were totally awesome amps. To think the guys who wrote Louie Louie were behind Sunn!

 

[Stumbo]

Those who never played a Sunn amp/cab will never realize the thunder they produced. Unless my memory is romanticizing it, those amps were powerful with full bottom end. Just like Ampeg retains it sound as it evolves, if Sunn evolved and retained its sound (tube pre) I would be interested. I always loved the style of the amps too. The logo, the shape of the cabs, trimmings, they were totally awesome amps. To think the guys who wrote Louie Louie were behind Sunn!

My rig was a 2000s amp with matching 2x15 JBL cab (along with white Fender Jazz) for a long time, playing clubs, schools and a few outdoor gigs.

Always sounded good with all types of bands.

An HPF would have been really helpful.

 

[SoulReflection]

I had a Dynaco 60 Watt tube amp and a 2-15 JBL D140F Cab (Sunn Clone) back in the day. With those, and the rest of the group, I have the hearing aids to prove it .

 

[Happy Face]

i gigged with the (solid state) Coliseum rigs. At the max two heads, two 4x12" and two 1x18" cabs.

i kept a head and a single 4x12" cab until pretty recently. But, well, they were loud but not super special enough to keep.

Wicked looking, though!

 

[Al Kraft]

I used some of their gear back in the day. While it's fun to take a trip down memory lane occasionally and reminisce about those experiences, and I may get flamed for this, I think their rigs would have a hard time attracting people away from the top of the line gear of today.

For those of us who lived through the whole evolution from those rigs to what we mainly play now, I think we all made the transition because the newer stuff is really that good and super convenient! There will never be heads and cabs like that again, and my guess is that you'd easily find as many people to argue that's a good thing as that it's a bad thing.

 

[Gizmot]

Those who never played a Sunn amp/cab will never realize the thunder they produced. Unless my memory is romanticizing it, those amps were powerful with full bottom end. Just like Ampeg retains it sound as it evolves, if Sunn evolved and retained its sound (tube pre) I would be interested. I always loved the style of the amps too. The logo, the shape of the cabs, trimmings, they were totally awesome amps. To think the guys who wrote Louie Louie were behind Sunn!

The Kingsmen - who had the biggest hit with Louie Louie - did not write the song. It was written by Richard Berry in 1955, and the song was done by several other bands too. Norm Sundholm, son of the founder, was the bass player.

The original Sunn gear was something special - the amps were reliable and sounded very good; the enclosures were rock solid and well made. If Marshall never caught on and if Ampeg didn’t come out with the SVT, Sunn could have ruled the market. Among their users were Noel Redding with Hendrix and even Jimi himself for awhile, plus Chris Squire too.

 

[CaseyVancouver]

Yes! Would love to have a Sunn with a 2X15, maybe two of 'em. Move some air.

 

[Jim Carr]

I wish I could find the right drivers for my Sunn BH215!

 

[Jim Carr]

The Kingsmen - who had the biggest hit with Louie Louie - did not write the song. It was written by Richard Berry in 1955, and the song was done by several other bands too. Norm Sundholm, son of the founder, was the bass player...

In 1965, I heard The Kingsmen live in Lenexa, KS with the Blue Things at the Johnson County Rec Center. Awesome sound from Sunn amps and PA.

 

[arbiterusa]

Solid state Concert bass with the matching 2x15 cab. Original wattage.

That was a fun rig back in the day, but truth is I neither regret selling it or would conceivably want a new one. But it was a great tone. Just the one, but great.