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Why not more love for the Euphonic Audio stuff here?

#23
A few years ago, I bought a Euphonic Audio amp and Wizzy 12 cabinet and they have been absolutely fantastic for me. When I first listened to the Wizzy 12, it wasn't as bright as cabinets with separate HF drivers and horns (even short-throw ones). However, I also learned that it has a much smoother off-axis sound because it doesn't have any horn coloration or offset problems caused by sound emanating from multiple locations. It also maintains its sound over a very wide horizontal plane, so there's no problems with sonic differences just a couple of steps away.

I also love the iAmp with its extremely flexible with fully parametric 4-band EQ. The amp is clean, tight and smooth sounding.

These products have no faults as far as I'm concerned. They're built like tanks, sound great and I can do a lot of gigs with a relatively small package that doesn't weigh a lot.

If I needed more sound, I wouldn't have any problem buying more or another Euphonic Audio rig or products.

If you're looking for amps or speakers, you can't go wrong with EA - - just ask Leland Sklar.
 
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I rocked a pair of cxl-110s many years ago. They sounded great at low to moderate volume but struggled to keep up in a rock setting. Pretty heavy, too, and they were unforgiving - whatever you put into it, you got out of it. Very hi-fi. I wish I still had them because they would be perfect for near-field monitoring and recording, which is what I need most these days.
 
#25
I had a Iamp Doubler. It was small, light, loud and was the most sterile sounding amp I ever played through. I have found that seems to be the same with most of the class D heads I've played through with maybe a couple exceptions. The light weight is not worth the lack of tone IMHO.
 
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I have 2 Wizzy 12's and a Wizzy 10. If the Wizzy 10 came in an 8 ohm version a pair of these would be my main rig. I love the sound of the Wizzy 10. I use the Wizzy 12's a lot. The cabs are light and they sound really good.
 
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I'm primarily a double bassist, occasionally doubling on BG. I have a Wizzy 10 (12 years) and a Wizzy 12 (3 years), and I absolutely love both of them! In fact, I've stopped looking at cabs altogether.

I am a fan of transparency when it comes to DB, and the Wizzy 10 really delivers when it comes to MBOL. I also wish they made this cab in an 8 ohm version. I would love to be able to run two of them in situations requiring a greater spread.

For BG, I'm using a pedal board rig based around a 2 notes LeBass pre and C.A.B. M+ sim. I use the Wizzy 12 in the rare event that a monitor is needed. Volume has never been a problem, and it handles the B string beautifully without breakup.

I did have an iAmp doubler in my possession for a while. I thought it was a fine amp for the money but one thing really bothered me about it. The cooling fan was loud enough to be audible when not playing and for me this is a pet peeve, so I let it go.
 
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Lo-E said:
I think that’s just the flavor-of-the-month syndrome. EA’s been around for a long time. Plenty of other, not-necessarily-better stuff for TB members to geek out over.

Baer and fEarless aren’t talked about much lately, either. It’s just the nature of forums (fori? fora?) to obsess over boutique gear for a little while and then move on to the newest crush.

The non-boutique, workaday gear remains in everybody’s consciousness for much longer because it’s so much more marketed and available (and affordable).

None of this has anything to do with how good any of this gear is, it’s just the nature of how we tend to talk about it. That’s my take on it, anyway.
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Some companies also have people who actively post here on the forum and that certain is going to drive conversation about their products.
 
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Al Kraft said:
IMO this explains it and lomo's earlier comment in his post about how transparent the heads are. Add to that the limited number of dealers - I've only seen their products once in a store (and it was a bass specialty store) - and it's not surprising they don't get mentioned often in this forum.

IMO though, great gear, solid company engineering-wise , and an excellent reputation among owners. I'm sure that if I were an URB and/or acoustic bass player I'd have at least a few of their products in my personal inventory.
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Maybe not quite. Have a read through this short thread.

IAMP800- turned on and smoke came out of the right vent

They are known for transparency, mostly marketed to and adopted by DBers, and we’re among the first micro high-powered heads but when the EB side caught on most reported not getting enough to cut through for what the specs suggested.

Then everyone and their mom put out small/micro amps that were built much more solid, easier to try, buy, sell and service, and I’d be surprised to find EA remains a viable venture.
 
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My 4ohm 110 sounds better, pound for pound, than everything I’ve tried/gigged. The key, towards the ‘it gives you EXACTLY what you put IN’ concept, IME, is to front load it with something thick/chewy. For me that’s an Aguilar AG700 with a Khan Audio tube DI.

Contemplating how to get my bigger rigs to sound that good.

On the other end of things, it reproduces my URB/EUB perfectly with the older Acoustic Image head I have.
 
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Killing Floor said:
Extremely well made, good sounding product. "Transparent" is not a feature that every electric bassist seeks. I offer that if you stack up the amps that live and die by transparent amplification on one side and put the amp brands that have a recognizable tone color on the other yes, one of these things eclipses the other. I have never read or heard a negative comment about EA and the few times I've touched one it sounded very good. It's all subjective and all good.
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The transparency was a quality they noted about the EA in the Bass Player bass cabinet shootout.

I really need to find that issue because they tested like twenty or so 2 x 10" cabinets; all the way from very low priced ones (Carvin and Crate) on up to the EA, Bag End, and Acme. The usual suspects as well from Ampeg, G-K, SWR Fender, and Eden, but strangely enough no Mesa that I recall. Maybe back in 1998? they were not making 2 x 10' cabinets?

It was a cool shootout because although they "ranked" the cabinets (based on sound and price) but they also pointed out certain cabs (like the EA) were far better for certain styles of playing. The only one they really had little positive to say about was the Crate, besides having mediocre performance the thing weighed like 68 pounds or something crazy. Came with casters (on a 2 x 10") because it needed them.

It must have been made from concrete reinforced MDF LOL

Analogeezer

p.s. They went absolutely gaga over the Acme, but back then everybody was going gaga over the Acme in the late 1990's; they noted of course you needed a lot of power to make it sing, which was something most people knew, even back then.

p.s.s. Thanks to all the actual owners who have chimed in I guess there are more of you lurking out there than i thought :)
 
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StayLow said:
Maybe not quite. Have a read through this short thread.

IAMP800- turned on and smoke came out of the right vent

They are known for transparency, mostly marketed to and adopted by DBers, and we’re among the first micro high-powered heads but when the EB side caught on most reported not getting enough to cut through for what the specs suggested.

Then everyone and their mom put out small/micro amps that were built much more solid, easier to try, buy, sell and service, and I’d be surprised to find EA remains a viable venture.
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Interesting thread that I was not aware of...although it was only about 50 posts close to 16 years ago. On a positive note, Tom Bowlus' post caught my eye in terms of the company making things right.

All I can offer is that the couple folks I know who have EA products today seem relatively pleased with their equipment. I have never owned EA products, but I still think they have a decent reputation and still believe they are more geared toward the DB/URB community than the EB rock, country, and metal crowd.
 
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Analogeezer said:
p.s.s. Thanks to all the actual owners who have chimed in I guess there are more of you lurking out there than i thought :)
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I was a happy user of a CxL-112 for my EUB for several years and had two iAmps as well, the A/B 350 and the Class D 800. The 800 suffered from the infamous bad caps as detailed in that link upthread, unfortunately. Even though I bought it used EA repaired it no questions asked. But I ended up getting more rock oriented gigs for a while rather than the straight ahead jazz I bought it for and decided to use something lighter and smaller for jazz and get a dedicated amp for the louder BG stuff.

They eventually transitioned to the very reliable ICEpower modules long ago though and the Doubler I tried a few years ago struck me as much better BG amp than the iAmp 800 was. The older ones had a minimalistic HPF that didn't really do it any favors IMO. I really liked all the company principals in any case, and the fact that they don't just go fo the same-old.
 
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Some subjective observations, FWIW...

Some years ago I tried an NL-210 and the iAmp 500 and 800. To my ears, the NL-210 sounded similar to an Eden D-210XST, but was significantly lighter and easier to carry, but the expense kept me away. Also tried a couple of the iAmps at band rehearsal, and while they had a clear sound, both my bandmates and I though my Eden WT-500 sounded and carried the band better. Not sure how to describe it... just seemed sort of clear, thin, and lacking authority.
 

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