Mesa Subway D800 v/s Aguilar TH 500

[Marial]

imho a Rob Allen and the TH500 are not a great combination (I have a Deep 5). The front end has a tough time with the piezo output and it has way too much wool for my taste but ymm.

Thank you, that's excellent info!

 

[hennessybass]

Finally, I think that with the way the controls are set up for shaping the tone, it's very difficult to directly compare these two heads. I get the distinct the feeling that they were designed to work well for two very different tonal spaces. However, I find a use for both and enjoy both very much. For me, the D-800 is clearly more versatile and I suspect most people will find its tone shaping controls to be more intuitive. It's hard to get a bad tone from the D-800 regardless of which knob you turn. On the other hand, the Aguilar controls are able to provide exquisite sounds, as well as some that would be disappointing for $99 practice amp - you really need to understand and know how to get the magic out of the Aguilar to make it work for you.

+1 to this.

I had some gigs canceled, so I've not been able to play the Mesa out as much as I thought I was going to be able to. At home, right now I am kind of finding that I like running the gain high / master low on the D800,,, and the gain low / master high on the TH500. Voice filters off, or on just a little, and not straying much from noon on the EQ controls.

 

[craigmack1979]

Some one had to do it

Now that the subway D800's are out in the open can we draw some comparisons between them?a fair comparison would be TH700 vs the mesa and for the record a personal preference don't mean one amp superior than another . But if a comparison is to be made it should be with the TH700 and not the TH500 .

How do the voices and volume output compare?
I like that the retail price is the same but the watts are different.. One provides head phone and aux which are important for me but the other offers an fx loop with a 6db gain which is handy!

Am also very curious how the mesa 800 watts compare with the Aguilar 500 watts as I've come to understand it.. The standards set for number of "advertised" watts are very different for each company. But now that the option of this really promising subway amp is available ... There might be some more tone hammer 500's in the classifieds soon? And hopefully some subways too heheh