Yes maybe I shouldn't have used the term 'sold out' as I'm sure they believe their products to still be of high quality. However IF they have switched to MDF for the cabs that is poor show because, although debatable that this would be detrimental to sound quality, it certainly doesn't have as long a life as good quality ply! And ply, so I've read, has certain 'musical' qualities not possessed by MDF and most people assume that a 'premium' brand would use the better materials for cabinet construction. I guess it's a case of the player trying, rather than buying online just based on a brand name! By the way, how do you rate the Barefaced 2x10..? I've been looking at trying one!
I am not sure about MDF vs ply... yeah, I expect ply is more durable, but I can't imagine a situation where that would affect the actual life-span of the cab, or sound for that matter: as long as it's rigid, and for that you have adequate interior bracing etc, it should not matter what it is made of. Unlike an acoustic guitar, the walls of a cab are not designed to vibrate and resonate, all the opposite, designers try hard to make it as rigid as possible.
I've read 'complaints' about MB Little Mark heads moving from a big transformer power supply to something else smaller and... different. But I've owned those heads from before and after the change and I can't say I notice any substantial difference. I just think people find that a maker uses a cheaper way to build something and immediately think "lower quality", when it's not necessarily so. Some people have their own personal observations and they think there is a difference (whether real or not), and that's cool. But a lot of people just perpetuate what they hear/read without personal experience and that's not so helpful, even if the intention is good, I don't question that for a minute!
The Two10 is fantastic.
I've owned the Gen2 Compact and two BigBaby 2 as well, which were all good, but this is more my thing. It has a much tighter low end and the treble seems it never gets brittle... it's just hard to get a bad sound out of it (even when *I* play it
) and it's a nice compact and reasonably loud solution.
Tonight I have a gig at a local music venue where backline is provided... but I hate it, and the stage is pretty boomy so you need to watch the volume and low end onstage. The Two10 is so easy to carry that it's a no brainer: I bring my own. I place it on top of the provided Orange 410 cab, and the LMIII head on top, and I get great sound onstage that everybody else can hear with clarity as well.
I have used it a couple of times in small bars with no support, where volume is not very high... and without pushing it it works beautifully. Plenty of low end, but focused, with good definition.
It doesn't sound quite as nice as my pair of TKS S112, but it's not far off and this thing can handle more power, so I think I'll end up getting a second one.
