I've got an E10 and an E10P (the powered version) on rent right now.
To my ears, and with the limited techniques and abilities I have to test with, the passive cab sounds *much* better.
The E10P has way too much emphasis on the extreme bottom end as well as the extreme top end.
I'm driving the E10 passive with an ART SLA 1 in bridged mono mode.
In order to check that the SLA1 isn't simply lacking in bottom end or top end I've been A/B'ing the E10 with my home studio monitoring system, but that's just a relatively hi-end (for the 80s) Yamaha integrated amp (A-700) pushing some Yamaha NS-10s.
I know the NS10s don't reproduce the bottom end anyway, so I've been double checking with some AKG K240 headphones and some old Stax Ear-Speakers..
Based on these little tests, which are hardly conclusive, it seems to me that the SLA1 driving the E10 passive is much flatter than the E10P.
The E10 passive is the first FRFR system I've tried with the Axe that actually sounds/feels like it might work for me.
Other FRFRs I've tried are the QSC K12 and K10, Traynor K1 K2 and K4 keyboard amps, and a Yorkville NX55 powered monitor.
Anybody else out there tried the E10 passives?
Did you have a similar experience to mine?
To my ears, and with the limited techniques and abilities I have to test with, the passive cab sounds *much* better.
The E10P has way too much emphasis on the extreme bottom end as well as the extreme top end.
I'm driving the E10 passive with an ART SLA 1 in bridged mono mode.
In order to check that the SLA1 isn't simply lacking in bottom end or top end I've been A/B'ing the E10 with my home studio monitoring system, but that's just a relatively hi-end (for the 80s) Yamaha integrated amp (A-700) pushing some Yamaha NS-10s.
I know the NS10s don't reproduce the bottom end anyway, so I've been double checking with some AKG K240 headphones and some old Stax Ear-Speakers..
Based on these little tests, which are hardly conclusive, it seems to me that the SLA1 driving the E10 passive is much flatter than the E10P.
The E10 passive is the first FRFR system I've tried with the Axe that actually sounds/feels like it might work for me.
Other FRFRs I've tried are the QSC K12 and K10, Traynor K1 K2 and K4 keyboard amps, and a Yorkville NX55 powered monitor.
Anybody else out there tried the E10 passives?
Did you have a similar experience to mine?