wildblueyonder

Thx BCRGreg, Kiz, Darc, CMatthes, et al for your insights. I found them very constructive & helpful. I haven't made any judgments after a few days...I just made a few observations, asked a few questions, and then collected a bit of data from the responses to my post. I see now that this is a very tight collection of folks. What I mean by that is the relationships between members of the forum seem to go well beyond that of a typical forum. I also get the sense that many of the members here have been members for a long, long while, and probably will remain active members until they expire! So, in light of that I now understand better some of the posts that initially struck me as mean-spirited and closed minded. Maybe best said like this. I grew up in a large family with many brothers and sisters. If anyone from outside the family were able to see how we interacted with each other within our home on a day to day basis they would have thought we hated each other, yet nothing could have been further from the truth. This forum seems to have similar characteristics. Except this forum IS seen by all, at all times! Peace.

As a newbie to this board, these responses really surprise me. First, they strike me as somewhat closed minded and mean spirited in tone. And second, for the most part, they strike me as lacking meaningful content / dialogue. Maybe I've stumbled onto the wrong board for me, but a few observations. As an uncovered wood cab, commissioned for a studio owner, it appears intended for studio/home use. So the "roadworthiness" and "audience" comments don't seem too relevant to me. And I guess you have all a/b'ed parallel and series interconnections of the same speakers in the same cab and have concluded there is no significant difference in the tone, right? Hmmm. Gerald Weber talks about this in his book, and Ken Fisher also talked about this in his book, pointing out that even in a 4x12 cab it makes considerable difference in the sound whether its wired series/parallel or parallel/series. I guess you've all also played through cabs with both a 10 and a 12 in it, and decided that does nothing for you? And also played with different make/model speakers in the same cab, and concluded there is nothing of interest to you there as well? And maybe no one here has any interest in attenuators, or if you do, you have no issue lugging another piece of gear around with you, and you're real happy with how it doesn't suck any of your tone? While I would not want the particular cab shown, there are aspects and ideas associated with it that I would want to consider in my next cab. I for one would like to be able to use it for a bit, to find out which configurations work best and are most useful for me, and then incorporate what I learned into my next cab choice. And I can clearly see the need and utility of the switching capabilities in a space limited studio, where each client (studio user) wants something different, but to have all the different pieces of gear in the studio would both be very expensive and take up a ton of valuable, limited space. And similarly for the home player with limited space and funds, who wants access to several different "rigs", in effect. I certainly wouldn't characterize it as "ridiculous", especially for these applications. I might however choose to characterize it as "not to my liking". I guess I looked at the original post from the perspective "what can I learn from this", not "lets see how mean spiritied and juvenile I can be" (I mean really, the discussion of how long or short a particular body part it is or isn't was incredibly juvenile and immature, IMHO). What is most strinking to me in reading this thread and some others on this board is this (sure to be controversial): Hamer announces the release of a new guitar - effectively a Tele clone - and there are nothing but "woo hoo's". Personally, I don't see anything new or appealing there. And I certainly wouldn't considering buying one new from a dealer, as soon as I take it out the door it will depreciate in re-sale value by about 40%, as thats what happens in the re-sale market for Hamers (a good thing if you only buy used...not so good if you buy new). But thats me....YMMV. I certainly wouldn't refer to the guitar as "ridiculous", but its clearly nothing I'd be interested in buying new. Now in contrast, I at least see some new ideas in the original post in this thread. And while again I wouldn't buy the cab shown, reading about it at least led me to feel I saw and learned something new. But the response of this forum to the original post was akin to "christ, why'd you display such a ridiculous thing here". So it might be that this is a forum that longs for and revels in the past, and has limited interest in the new. Is this correct? I ask as I come to these boards to be exposed to and learn about new things, so perhaps this board is not for me.