Just upgraded my Peavey silver fin Microbass amp with an 8" Eminence 125 watt Neo speaker. The amp only puts out 20 watts but sure sounds a hundred times better now! 
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I had a series 400 Bass when I was younger, I loved the tone. I stupidly pawned it when I was young and needed cash, and always kind of compared other amps to my memory of it's tone. It could have been louder, but you could plug it into just about any crazy ohms rating cluster of cabs and it would sound great. When I got back to playing bass in a loud ass band again, I could afford more expensive amps, so I bought them instead of replacing the Peavey.
The other day when I thought my Super Bassman was on the fritz (it wasn't, it had shaken a wire loose in the cab), I picked up a series 400 Musician as a backup. It was the cheapest head in the store - and it was the only one that sounded anywhere near what I wanted that wasn't itself as heavy as the SB:
My lead guitarist is pretty critical of tone, and the Super Bassman was the first head he actually liked my tone with. His dad used one of these as a guitar head when he was a kid, and he did not have fond memories of it. So, he kind of looked at me sideways when I brought it in. After we got it set up, he was so impressed he said he liked it's tone more than he liked the SB. I gotta build a footswitch. How many good bass amps do you know of with built-in tremolo?
And the best part was that the Musician came with a free non-working series 300 Bass head! Sadly, it's the version with the spectrum control and not the fuzz. I'm still planning on spending a little money and getting that one back on the road, too. It's too pretty, and it never hurts to have a third backup
The other day when I thought my Super Bassman was on the fritz (it wasn't, it had shaken a wire loose in the cab), I picked up a series 400 Musician as a backup. It was the cheapest head in the store - and it was the only one that sounded anywhere near what I wanted that wasn't itself as heavy as the SB:
My lead guitarist is pretty critical of tone, and the Super Bassman was the first head he actually liked my tone with. His dad used one of these as a guitar head when he was a kid, and he did not have fond memories of it. So, he kind of looked at me sideways when I brought it in. After we got it set up, he was so impressed he said he liked it's tone more than he liked the SB. I gotta build a footswitch. How many good bass amps do you know of with built-in tremolo?
And the best part was that the Musician came with a free non-working series 300 Bass head! Sadly, it's the version with the spectrum control and not the fuzz. I'm still planning on spending a little money and getting that one back on the road, too. It's too pretty, and it never hurts to have a third backup
