Ashdown Labs Superfly Review!

ponch

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Ok, so my brother picked up the thing friday, and I didn't get to see it until saturday morning due to the fact that I closed at my job(movie theater) and got home at like 2 am, and he wasn''t home. He had the amp and was kicking it with his girlfriend. Well, anyway I got to the venue at 7, set up the 4x10, plugged in the superfly(only about 7xlike3x12 and a shocking 6kg!). I tunned the all maple rickenbocker 4003 which is a nicely aged '72 and i turned it on. At first there was a plastic smell going around and made me worry a bit, but what ever. The amp has 10 pre sets to make it sound close to any other amp out there that is remotly influencial:bowdown: which was cool. My brother was playing out of a crate power block he had just gotten through a marshal 2x12(which is painfully loud), and the superfly kept up easily only using half of the power(250 watts on each side). When we took a break my brother read the manual and these things come set to british power, so it would clip when i hit the strings hard. I was astonished I hadn't blown up the thing when I plugged that bugger in! this happened thanks to the digital power amp, well its totally digital. My brother flipped the switch to US. 115 volts, and the thing ran remarkably cooler, louder and wouldn't clip. It made the rick sound like a thick fat p bass, and everywhere in between! Its a one bass machine! Afterwards I took it to guitar center where i tested the thing with some ampeg classic 4x10's. OMG, they hurt you, You stand 5 feet away and it feels like someone hit your kidney, and shocked your heart. This amp is a beast! My hat goes off to ampeg! They did their homework on this one. This amp is so cool it even bonded with my car as it traded paint as I tookit out, my own fault though(I was cheching out the cute girl that works at guitar satan:laugh2:). So in conclusion this amp rips. :burnout:
 
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