I currently have an orange terror bass 500 with an sp410 cabinet. We have recently changed practice spaces in my band. The old practice space had great acoustics and I never had to turn my amp up over a quarter of the way. At the new place, I am having to turn up a lot more. I've noticed that it reaches a threshold where it "maxes out". Anything over this level begins to sound nasty. The low E sounds really muddy and nasty (drop D is even worse). I can back the volume down and it doesn't do this any more. It also seems like if I stop playing for a while then play consecutive E notes, the first few notes will be nasty, then it will begin to get somewhat cleaner sounding. It's like what is driving the speakers is worked too hard or something. My question is do you guys think I am just expecting more out of this cabinet than it can do? Would I be more happy with trading it for an Ampeg standard 4x10 for example? I know that the sp410 doesn't move as much air/sound as a traditional 4x10. Is this the problem or is it that the terror bass 500 doesn't have enough power? I am getting frustrated as I just want a rig that can cut through in a loud practice situation and still haven't found it (and $2000 later none the less 
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Any help or advice would be wonderful. Thanks talkbassers, you guys rule!
Also, I am running a 1980 Rickenbacker 4003 through it if that matters. I tried using my active fender jazz and it did the same thing so I assume this is not the problem.
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Also, I am running a 1980 Rickenbacker 4003 through it if that matters. I tried using my active fender jazz and it did the same thing so I assume this is not the problem.
