amp fail

It's new (to me) cab day. Woo! I had it shipped to work as I was out of town for a few days but knew I could sneak in over the weekend to make some racket. Our shop is in an industrial zone and I can get as stoopid loud as I want, so I brought along my other gigging cab to do some comparative...

As the thread title suggests: got my TC Electronics BAM200 from Amazon priced at $99 in the mail yesterday. Fired her up hooked up to Bergantino AE410 4 ohm cabinet… the little amplifier sounded fantastic with my passive P bass for about 4 minutes….. then bam! up went the “magic smoke” and...