Yeah but think how distinctive eighty five 1" speakers would look. It'd be like a big orange and black insect eye.If it's eight 5" speakers, Phil Jones beat them to the punch by decades. Seems like a lot of hype all for naught in that case.
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Something brewing at MarkBass.it
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I'll wait till the 'big reveal' is over to see what this is about. Hopefully not too expensive or ugly.
I'll wait till the 'big reveal' is over to see what this is about. Hopefully not too expensive or ugly.
The Marco sticker will now be a plate that’s welded to the grille so you can’t remove it but it will spin while you play, thus, revolutionary.
I’ve had MarkBass stuff a long time now. I’m down to just two cabinets. They have never failed or even farted on me. I like them. To each their own. and as @5StringBlues said, no one has ever said a thing about when I play out…other than…your bass sounds great.
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an omnidirectional 5x8,in a revolutionary Italian design cube combo
It means I was born too late. To have been in Europe to see Nuvolari, Ascari, and The Silver Arrows at the Targa, the original Monza with the double loop high banks, the Alfas, the Maseratis, the test track atop the FIAT factory, would have been something.
Their ad image has dude balancing (or spinning) a cab on one finger like a basket ball or the Circus plate spinners.
Looks like cabs are lighter than current, you can run with it or spin like plate or basket ball.
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The image shows what looks to be 6 small-ish tuners all on the top of the headstock - that's a 6-string guitar. So to make an assumption from this I'd say they're coming out with a guitar amp of some kind.
Okay, plausible... now what if the speakers rotated inside the cab
Yep! I have been wanting to try these cabs out for some time now....If, in fact, they are all they are cracked up to be - this old man will probably be purchasing a couple before too long.
Spinning cab would be sweet throw in a pedal to play with the cabs tuning would be dynamite!
It seems like every time Markbass has something new and revolutionary it is on clearance within a year. Maybe it will be awesome, but if the product was really incredible, we wouldn't need the marketing hype.
Yea, I did buy pretty much the entire MoMark Modular bass head system…abandoned shortly after release.
That makes me think of the wheels of the 1987 Porshe 959. The alloy wheel material was so revolutionary that they were worried it might fail and needed some sort of sensor to keep an eye on it. Their solution was to make them hollow and part of the pressure envelope of the tire itself. So if any micro cracks started in the wheel, the tire would leak air and the driver would be alerted to the problem.So, these are sealed cabs, then, eh?
If it's eight 5" speakers, Phil Jones beat them to the punch by decades. Seems like a lot of hype all for naught in that case.
Indeed, although let's not forget that Bose were producing high performance (for the time) 8 x 4½" in the '70s, so the idea of multiple small drivers is far from novel.
In the early '80s I had the pleasure of playing in a few venues that had modest Bose 800 systems as permanent installations. The results were impressive, although the backline bass amp still had to do a bit of heavy lifting to really carry the room.
I'm sure some modern drivers combined with good cab design could create some real volume and power handling with good low-end extension. On paper at least, 8 of these could approach 1000W for just under 16lbs and be no more than a couple of feet tall. Combined with ultralight composite-based enclosures who knows what might be possible:
I have all of my cabs infused with 78% nitrogen. It really is the sweet spot.
Yea, I did buy pretty much the entire MoMark Modular bass head system…abandoned shortly after release.
I tried their version of digital modeling, I think they still sell it or maybe they're still selling NOS that remains years later. Ended up selling it on TB and the guy that bought it contacted me three years later and said it died, the message read like he wanted his money back. Come on, MB doesn't warrant their stuff for three years. You can't get used prices and then want the benefits of new and extended warranties thrown in. Anyways, I just didn't reply and never heard from him again.
Anyways, I hope this product is new and revolutionary, but I have my doubts. All we really want is 300W and 15" that is reliable.
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"Humph Bo, he's wond!" - John Lennon
If a cab is TOO light it will literally move when playing. I had an AccuGroove that did that.
After you've tried 78% nitro, doing anything else just seems silly.
