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New Year's Eve will be the first gig with mine. It's a five piece country band with steel guitar and fiddle in a large venue, but it's an older crowd who wants use to "keep it down" so I'm hoping one One10 will do it. Here's a pic from last year's gig in the same venue (I was 50lbs heavier)
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jsper said:
Anybody know how different sounding the Super Twin/Super Compact is from the Retro series? I want to get a 2 cab setup to go with my new stereo amp and can't decide between getting 2 Super Compacts or 2 Retro cabs (probably a 2x10 and 4x10)

It seems like the Retro series is more of what I'm looking for, but the Super Compacts are pretty intriguing to me because of their lack of tweeter and they seem to push a lot of air for being such a small setup. Which one would handle dirt better? I use a lot of distortion and other effects. It seems like the Compact is more transparent and clear sounding (I do like having a pretty articulate tone), but the Retro apparently handles cone overdrive and is EQ'd for dirt.

Or maybe, just maybe, one of each type?

Anyway, just want to get some field reports from somebody who has tried both.
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If you get a Two10 and a Four10, be advised that you'll need to get the 12 ohm version of the Two10 in order to use it with the Four10. If so, the Two10 when used alone will require significantly more power to get the same volume as you would if you were using the 4 ohm version-- three times the power, IIRC, but Alex can chime in and let you know if I am off-base here. So, make sure you're using a high-powered amp, in that case.
 
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BigEarl said:
New Year's Eve will be the first gig with mine. It's a five piece country band with steel guitar and fiddle in a large venue, but it's an older crowd who wants use to "keep it down" so I'm hoping one One10 will do it. Here's a pic from last year's gig in the same venue (I was 50lbs heavier)
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No, BigEarl ... it's the camera. Adds 50 lbs every time!
 
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BigEarl said:
New Year's Eve will be the first gig with mine. It's a five piece country band with steel guitar and fiddle in a large venue, but it's an older crowd who wants use to "keep it down" so I'm hoping one One10 will do it. Here's a pic from last year's gig in the same venue (I was 50lbs heavier)
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Bass stuff aside, congrats on losing 50 pounds in a year, that's quite an accomplishment. I'd be quite happy if could drop 20 in a year, or over any time span. I think maybe we should start referring to you as Medium-sized Earl.
 
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Thanks for the info folks. I paid pretty stout fees for both of my Status Graphite basses when they were imported this year but their overall price was significantly higher than the BF cabs. Just curious what the average was for the BF cabs.
 
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Plutonium244 said:
If you get a Two10 and a Four10, be advised that you'll need to get the 12 ohm version of the Two10 in order to use it with the Four10. If so, the Two10 when used alone will require significantly more power to get the same volume as you would if you were using the 4 ohm version-- three times the power, IIRC, but Alex can chime in and let you know if I am off-base here. So, make sure you're using a high-powered amp, in that case.
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Alex will make a switchable version of the Two 10, presumably between 4 and 12 ohms, if you ask him and are prepared to pay extra. I intend to purchase one shortly.
 
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Tim1 said:
Alex will make a switchable version of the Two 10, presumably between 4 and 12 ohms, if you ask him and are prepared to pay extra. I intend to purchase one shortly.
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I asked him about it a few weeks back, he said they need to look into how to engineer it (although I'd heard they'd already built one as a custom order). Perhaps he meant "look into how to engineer it so that it's cost effective for a production model." I asked him to let me know if they put such a model into production and indicated I'd want one if the price is reasonable. But I haven't heard this is close to being realized.
 
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Plutonium244 said:
I asked him about it a few weeks back, he said they need to look into how to engineer it (although I'd heard they'd already built one as a custom order). Perhaps he meant "look into how to engineer it so that it's cost effective for a production model." I asked him to let me know if they put such a model into production and indicated I'd want one if the price is reasonable. But I haven't heard this is close to being realized.
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This is the reply I received from Alex in August when I wrote to him asking about buying a Two 10 plus the alternative crossover so I could swap them when necessary:
"We've just managed to make a switchable impedance Two10 for someone with a Six10. It's a pretty cool modular solution."
Based on that I am sure he can do it and has done it, but maybe he wants to see how much demand there is for it. I am certainly keen even if he wants to make just a limited run. Perhaps he is just too busy with the new 18 at the moment.
 
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Here's a thought and a question: On the website a key feature of the Barefaced Two 10 is that only one speaker gets the highs in order to improve dispersion.
The website states about the Two 10, "By only letting higher mids and treble come from one speakers we get much better dispersion through those frequencies so you have more consistent tone around the stage and venue."
My question is, has anyone compared a stack of Two One 10s with a Two 10? Supposedly a Two 10 should have better room dispersion as the two One 10s would both be receiving an identical signal.
 
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Tim1 said:
Supposedly a Two 10 should have better room dispersion as the two One 10s would both be receiving an identical signal.
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The stack should create comb filtering for any given listening position where each woofer-to-ear path differs in length. In other words, for anyone on the two sides of the stack it would be indistinguishable from a Two 10, with little or no filtering happening, while it would be "worst" for any listener standing in front of the stack with the head (the listener's, not the stack's!) not inside the "power alley" projecting from the stack at and around the imaginary plane dividing the cabs. The relatively unlucky listener in question is, in practice, anyone of the audience directly in front of the stack (unless the height of the bottom cab + an elevated stage happen to put the dividing plane at the right level for the average punter), and the player him/herself; the thing is, unless you do a lot of squats when playing, or grooving to the band as a concert-goer, you get one, stable recipe of attenuated and enhanced mid frequencies, not a varying one - if you dig it, no biggie. If you don't, I guess you could try this guy, which would easily stand the negligible weight of the two Ones:
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EDIT: oh, and, to the power alley cats at least, the stack should sound somewhat louder than the Two 10. Nothing that a mid boost or a slight volume knob twist can't fix, I reckon, but still.
 
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Plutonium244 said:
I remember reading it's about 5% but for some reason it seems like no matter which cab I ordered, it was always about $50 (have ordered a One10, Four10, and SM from them, which vary in price). Comes as a bill from Fedex a couple weeks after your item arrives.
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My One10 was delivered the first week of November, and I still haven't received anything from FedEx. Is this unusual?
 

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