Tested: Powerbass XBA-2 BASS Accelerator (Guest: Psyph Morrison)

[meade916]

Audiosavings was having another sweet deal for "deal of the day" the other day......the price was right and i wanted to try out some more toys on my test bench. It showed up pretty fast too!

Check out the video and see what it is....."Powerbass XBA-2"

I would probably notice more of a difference on a song that was lacking bass but it was a noticeable change just playing with this song.

[Freshman6969]

so its just an enhancer? in other words in interupts the signel then throws it out even stronger?

my question is, what about clipping? do you have to set this a certin way? or is it just set it to what you feels right?

edit: after reading into it a bit more, it seems to me that this is pretty much a secondary crossover that enhances the signal

Edit 2: i feel like this would be really nice for low power/budget systems with amps that dont have crossovers, i dont see it being to significant in the mid-high power systems seeing as its a minute gain if any, aswell as i dont see any use in a secondary crossover, because if its not spot on, your whole thing gets fucked up, correct?

Edited April 7, 2012 by Freshman6969

[Hotdog]

Are you going to test for distortion with the DD-1 on the outputs and see how it perform's?

[meade916]

Are you going to test for distortion with the DD-1 on the outputs and see how it perform's?

it doesn't have a line driver in it so i didn't really test for distortion. I probably should. The amps were set with the DD-1 prior to me shooting the video but i didn't use it because the video was already getting longer then i wanted it to be. Really, the CC-1 needs to be tossed on it too. I was just fiddling with the controls. I did come to a conclusion though, the IPAD has distortion. I will make a video of that soon! one click in from full power is all jacked up