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Hartke hydrive HD, Peavey pvh 210

Hey y'all, I'm in the market for a new amp and cab setup. I'm pretty set on the hartke lx series, most likely the 5500. A local music shop has a set of Peavey pvh210s that sound really good for 600 total. However, I'm really curious about the newer hydrive cabs by hartke. My current rig is a hartke lh500 with a rumble 115 cab. I play a wide variety of styles from rock, metal, math rock, some gospel (not as much anymore), CCM, funk, etc... I'll play basically everything but jazz as I play jazz saxophone much better than jazz bass lol.

Do the the cabs I mentioned handle distortion well? I use alot of that in my playing when I can. I like the hydrive hd210 cause it can handle 500 watts vs the peaveys 300. Right now I can usually get by with my rumble 115, but sometimes it gets farty and distorted and I really don't want that. Any thoughts would be appreciated!

Anthony