El Penguino

just checking in, my friend.

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IMO, Neo speakers are pretty much a "going rate" item and they cost the same throughout the board. That is, there's a powerrice ratio that I've seemed to notice. Is the Carvin worth it compared to Avatar? Well, the Carvin is basically 2 and a half-ish Avatar cabs. That is, you'd need 2 and a half Avatars to match the power of the Carvin. You know what I mean?

But the Carvin doesn't come in my favourite - 212. Not anymore, anyway.

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Well, it depends on how you run it. This will confuse you:

The BX1200 has 2 separate and individual power amps. If you get a 4 ohm 212 and a 4 ohm 410 and plug them into one power amp each, you're getting 400W per cabinet, and everything's fine.

However, you can mono-bridge the amps, making them act as one. In that case, you need 2 8 ohm cabs to get it to put out it's 1200W at 4 ohms. You'll have 1000W of handling, and it's pushing out 1200W, but I doubt you'll ever crank it high enough to damage anything.

So, you can:

a) Get 2 4-ohm Avatars and run the power amps separately in either dual mono or stereo, 400W per side

b) Get 2 8-ohm Avatars and run the power amps in mono-bridge to get 1200W (with only 1000W handling)

c) Get the BX1200 with the Carvin 410 NEO package. That one 410 can handle the full 1200W mono-bridge by itself, and is 4 ohms.

You dig?

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The only place other than shit luck used in a guitar store would be to go down to Carvin's showroom in California and try it there.

That's the tradeoff - pay 1/3 of the price of any US made gear, but not get to try it.

That said, Carvin's amps are solid state and are such that you can dial in any tone you want, assuming you know how to work an EQ. My 20 year old Carvin quite literally gives me the exact tone I got out of my Fender Bassman (minus some 10k sparkle, but the new ones can).

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Haha, actually, I can see them releasing his clips as if he had never died, everyone crying, and him posthumously winning every acting award there is.

**sigh**

He'll probably be the Cliff of acting.

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