What's with the Mesa Boogie Fathom?

[stefean]

Anyone know the deal with the Mesa Boogie Fathom? It's 600w @ 2 or 4 ohms with one preamp tube. What's the dis/advantage with this compared to an m-pulse 600, or for that matter a big block?
Thanks.

 

[barroso]

supposed to be a user friendly amps.
usually MESaamps are great sounding but not the easisest to tweak... I mean they have several great tone options which ar eto so easy tu use.

 

[zzr0ck3r]

I just got one and its 600 and 2ohms i think. This has more low end than the big block and its easy to use compared to the mpulse 600/wa/ven. The big thing of course is the compression is not there like the mpulse series.

 

[7thbass]

very easy to get good sound.

 

[Turlu]

what is the weight of these puppies ?

 

[tombowlus]

The Fathom is rated at 600w into a 4 ohm load, though it appears it may also be stable into a 2 ohm load.

 

[Bob Moulton]

Anyone know the deal with the Mesa Boogie Fathom? It's 600w @ 2 or 4 ohms with one preamp tube. What's the dis/advantage with this compared to an m-pulse 600, or for that matter a big block?
Thanks.

Yes, one 12AX7. Chris at Mesa told me that this head voicing sits right in the middle of the of the M-Pulse 600 and the Big Block. He said the 600w is nowhere near being overstated either. He told me they fired it up at Mesa in testing and it has tremendous headroom. Looking forward to testing it somewhere soon.