Just seeing this now! Love it - thanks for taking the time Alex. I have so much to learn from you!

Yay Alex!  Word is spreading ... slowly, but it IS spreading about the importance of cabs.

The 12XN is "telepathically quick". I noticed that right away as soon as I got my BT3. The notes seem to occur as I think of them and it made my time feel appreciably better

3x Barefaced owner here. if you're on the fence, jump!

I'm convinced based on the reviews I've read, YouTube demos I've seen, and the engineering, design,  R&D, and build quality that Barefaced bass cabs are the best on the planet, and plan on getting a Super Compact T in the very near future!!! Another fascinating presentation by Alex!!!

Great information, as always!

This was cool to watch and informative! Love hearing the engineering behind these common misconceptions.

A great, thoughtful response video. Nice one Alex

There is a thing about looks - like the classic 4x12 guitar cabs. Terrible for uneven frequency response and a complete sound laser but looks cool. My idea is to have a vertical 2-12 in a recessed swivel baffle, ported to 80Hz tuning. So you have the even sideways dispersion, and also the low end of 4 speakers due to the porting, and retain the external dimensions of the 4 x 12, yet save money by only needing 2 drivers instead of 4. You could get higher wattage ones if you like, but the more even dispersion would probably mean turning it up less anyway.

I had a little BLX combo in the late 90s, it was a great little amp for what it was. I ended up giving it away, I don't think my friends sons band knew what they were getting.

It was compact, but crazy heavy. I remember trying to drag it across the university campus and had to stop every 50 yards or so.

Dear Alex this is like you described my past, I used to have that Trace BLX, and you are so right, no bottom, but we had a weird space to practice and that amp sounded like it was all over the room, but without low end. Another thing, I used to have 2x 2x10 Markbass cabs and I always stacked them vertically, didn't know why but it just sounded right. It  looked weird,but sounded right on stage. And the I fell in love with you twelves, they are just so incredibly fast and clean, but with low end that just sits there right, my BB2 and BT2 are just perfect. I these are first 12" that I tried, luckily.

As far as an "anger" rig. The Barefaced 8x10 with 2kw of solid state amplification, signal processing and pedals of my choice seems like an attractive choice.
I was actually looking up their Dubster 2 for bottom end upgrade on a DJ rig but they don't make them anymore.
The big twins look like they'd do loud clean bass and be a full range PA or house party speaker that brings the police if you crank it, so those are quite attractive too.
As far as practice I'm curious as to their single 10 cab as it's smaller than even my MB30 but I bet it mops the floor with it on output.

Anyone else think Alex would make a great Bond Q?

As a guitarist, I think there's room for less-than-linear affected tones in SOME of my cabinets, and big motor unaltered but running a ten inch cone is a tone I think that I want. E.g. I have several EVM10 and EVM12 combinations that I am working with for tone differences and I imagined they had not done much re-engineering. I suppose I couldhave missed it.
Anyway one thing I want to try is your Bass transducer* in an AVD cabinet, (that seems useful) if and when I get the current accounts receivable issue resolved..

 *appears to be more linear than the E-V stuff, can't hurt much to try.

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I want to upgrade to obviously one of your cabs, the big boy. But want a Glockenklang amp for transparency since I'm getting tone control from my Noble and soon to come Anagram by Darkglass, and Effectrode LA-1A. Yes I love in Ohio USA and have things shipped from Europe like my GSS Baby Sumo amplifier.

Alex, been following you for years, thank you for your explanations. It's my understanding that if two speakers that are constructed the same, but are different diameters (may not be possible), then the larger diameter speaker will produce a lower frequency sound. And I was very entertained by the wrong marker bit 😂. Suggestion, Ola Englund could provide a review for guitar cabs, seems like he gets a lot of reviews. Thanks

In terms of dispersion of a 4 x 10, the other thing you can do is have a baffle in an angled in V at an angle chosen based on the speaker's dispersion characteristics. This does waste box volume though.

Alex, you need some whiteboard cleaner, I can send you some in exchange for a cab ;)

Hi Alex, I'm happy to hear that you are working on a bass amp. Have I heard it right that an active cabinet is also in the making? I used the FR800 for some time and I loved it. Unfortunately I had to give it away when I moved to another country. Looking forward to see your new stuff