Well here's the saga....
So I ordered a new tc K210 cab from GC. It got delivered right at the same time as I was walking out the door running late to get my daughter to her karate class, so I just put it inside the door. When I get home later and take a closer look I see the box is way beat up with the top flap tape ripped open on both ends. Two plastic banding straps were loosely strapped around the box (pretty sure those aren't factory applied). Holes punched through the box on both sides too. Marks on the box told me it had laid on it's side with other stuff on top. If I'd have had the time to look it over when it was delivered, I'd have refused delivery.
So I take a chance that it might be OK so I open it up. Sure enough there's a big dent on the front edge about an inch deep that lines up perfectly with a puncture mark on the box. Something went through there or the cab was dropped.
The dent was way worse than it looks in the picture.
I decide to hook it up and see how it sounds. It had a real bad vibration in the cabinet that was very noticeable when playing any "A" note on the bass. The vibration/buzzing while playing the 12th fret on the A string was so loud it made the cabinet virtually unusable. So I start a damage claim and UPS comes and picks up the cab.
I call GC and tell them what happened and they say OK no problem. We'll ship out a replacement today. I ask don't you need to hear from UPS regarding the damage claim? They say nope, so I ask if they're going to charge my card again for the replacement cab till they hear from UPS. They say no you already paid for a cab and it was damaged. That isn't your fault and we will make sure you get the cabinet you paid for. I'm impressed with GC'c CS on this matter. They really delivered this time.
So....the replacement cabinet arrives today. The box and packing look great and the cabinet when unpacked looks perfect.
That's where the perfection ends though. I hook up the cabinet and it has the same vibration on any "A" note as the first cabinet did. If anything it vibrates worse. I check all the screws and everything is tight. I try both my tc BH250 and my tc RH450 heads and the cab vibrates with both. I move the cab to another room and it still vibrates. So this one goes back too. There's no visible damage so I'm going to drop it at the local GC and let them deal with it. Not going to get another K210 though. After two in a row I don't want to deal with another possible bum cab.
This really has me stumped. Why both cabs with the same issue and why only on the "A" notes? A run of bad speakers? Bad tweeters? I find it hard to believe there's a structural issue causing this even though it sounds like one. Maybe if it only happened on the first dented cab but not both.
Cell phone recording of vibrations. On the last A note you can really hear it. If my cellphone can record it, you know it's bad.
Now what to replace the K210 with?
So I ordered a new tc K210 cab from GC. It got delivered right at the same time as I was walking out the door running late to get my daughter to her karate class, so I just put it inside the door. When I get home later and take a closer look I see the box is way beat up with the top flap tape ripped open on both ends. Two plastic banding straps were loosely strapped around the box (pretty sure those aren't factory applied). Holes punched through the box on both sides too. Marks on the box told me it had laid on it's side with other stuff on top. If I'd have had the time to look it over when it was delivered, I'd have refused delivery.
So I take a chance that it might be OK so I open it up. Sure enough there's a big dent on the front edge about an inch deep that lines up perfectly with a puncture mark on the box. Something went through there or the cab was dropped.
The dent was way worse than it looks in the picture.
I decide to hook it up and see how it sounds. It had a real bad vibration in the cabinet that was very noticeable when playing any "A" note on the bass. The vibration/buzzing while playing the 12th fret on the A string was so loud it made the cabinet virtually unusable. So I start a damage claim and UPS comes and picks up the cab.
I call GC and tell them what happened and they say OK no problem. We'll ship out a replacement today. I ask don't you need to hear from UPS regarding the damage claim? They say nope, so I ask if they're going to charge my card again for the replacement cab till they hear from UPS. They say no you already paid for a cab and it was damaged. That isn't your fault and we will make sure you get the cabinet you paid for. I'm impressed with GC'c CS on this matter. They really delivered this time.
So....the replacement cabinet arrives today. The box and packing look great and the cabinet when unpacked looks perfect.
That's where the perfection ends though. I hook up the cabinet and it has the same vibration on any "A" note as the first cabinet did. If anything it vibrates worse. I check all the screws and everything is tight. I try both my tc BH250 and my tc RH450 heads and the cab vibrates with both. I move the cab to another room and it still vibrates. So this one goes back too. There's no visible damage so I'm going to drop it at the local GC and let them deal with it. Not going to get another K210 though. After two in a row I don't want to deal with another possible bum cab.
This really has me stumped. Why both cabs with the same issue and why only on the "A" notes? A run of bad speakers? Bad tweeters? I find it hard to believe there's a structural issue causing this even though it sounds like one. Maybe if it only happened on the first dented cab but not both.
Cell phone recording of vibrations. On the last A note you can really hear it. If my cellphone can record it, you know it's bad.
Now what to replace the K210 with?
