Customer Feedback

12/03/26 - Super 24 - Netherlands

The Super 24 sound massive at home, can't wait to use it in the band 😊

Rudy

20/02/26 - Super Mini - UK

Hi Barefaced team - 

I have a Super Mini I got from you last year. I would like to use this powered 10" (Activier One10T) on its own and as a compliment to the 12" for gigs that require both. I use a Noble preamp/Di and so am likely to use a passive bass into the Noble and out to the powered 10. I would like to be able to add the 12" as needed for a portable stack. I use an Epifani Piccolo 350 with the Super Mini but think the powered 10 could replace this (so one less piece to carry).

That sound OK?

Thanks!

Patrick

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Hi Patrick,

All sounds good - look forward to hearing what you think of it!

Best regards,

Alex

11/03/26 - Big Baby 3 / Big Twin 2 - UK

09/03/26 - Super Mini T - USA

Even though I pride myself in building my own speaker cabinets, YOLO so I bought a Barefaced Super Mini T. It's a single 600W 12" with an adjustable tweeter in a small ported cab with a "Top-Hat" hole for a speaker stand. I'm a bass player too and I've been following Barefaced for a while. These cabs are made in England and are rare in the US, but a bass buddy of mine has a super-twin that sounds great. I bought the smallest 12" cab they make, thinking I could double-duty it for steel and bass (not on the same gig though - I hope). Last night I played steel with a 11pc. pretty loud hard to describe "jazz-fusion" band. The cabinet was right behind me up on the drum riser. It sounded absolutely fantastic, and what's more amazing was that everyone in the band could hear me - everywhere on stage. I don't know how they got the dispersion to be as good as it is!

I had been using a 1501BW in a closed-back cab. With that, the mid-bump was hard to tame, I sounded a bit thin in the audience, and players on the other side of the stage had trouble hearing me. Not with the Barefaced.

It apparently made me play better too - I've never received so many high-fives after a show.

Here's a pic. I got a cheap tiny speaker stand to raise it up which give me a steel-heavy mix to stay in tune. Our sound guy calls it my "Texas in-ear monitor".

I know you guys are scientific (I am too), but you don’t post a lot of technical data about your speakers. I get why because if you give numbers, people throw them around and it gets in the way of Alex’s “just tell me if it’s working for you” mantra. But I have two numbers questions – you don’t have to answer them:

1). What is the efficiency (sensitivity) of the Super mini? The 1501-4BW is sort of a gold-standard in the PSG community, and the Super Mini T seems less efficient than the Peavey (98.8dB). My 200W amp was really cranked that night (that’s OK – power is cheap). I understand that “efficiency” isn’t really fair because the measurement is on-axis, plus midrange peaks may make the 1501 sound louder, especially parked behind me like it is. At the gig, the Peavey sounded louder (actually not better though!) but the rest of the band couldn’t hear me.  This brings me to the dispersion question – obviously if the Super Mini T spreads the sound power around better than the Peavey, it would measure less efficient at 1m on-axis.

2). Do you have a polar plot of the SPL at like 1kHz? I am so amazed at the apparent dispersion – because everyone could hear me. I wouldn’t be amazed for bass so much, but for steel that’s really something. It’s sort of counter-intuitive because you just have a 12” driver in a square box and you think that would dictate the polar distribution. If your box was some weird-ass dodecahedron with reflectors or multiple drivers, that would be a different story.

Glenn

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Hi Glenn,

That's great to hear about how well it performed!

1). What is the efficiency (sensitivity) of the Super mini? The 1501-4BW is sort of a gold-standard in the PSG community, and the Super Mini T seems less efficient than the Peavey (98.8dB). My 200W amp was really cranked that night (that’s OK – power is cheap). I understand that “efficiency” isn’t really fair because the measurement is on-axis, plus midrange peaks may make the 1501 sound louder, especially parked behind me like it is. At the gig, the Peavey sounded louder (actually not better though!) but the rest of the band couldn’t hear me.  This brings me to the dispersion question – obviously if the Super Mini T spreads the sound power around better than the Peavey, it would measure less efficient at 1m on-axis.

The SMT is about 97dB sensitivity but that is indeed an on-axis measurement - the more directional a speaker the higher it'll measure on-axis but the less loud it'll sound in the room for everyone who's not in the exact right place.

2). Do you have a polar plot of the SPL at like 1kHz? I am so amazed at the apparent dispersion – because everyone could hear me. I wouldn’t be amazed for bass so much, but for steel that’s really something. It’s sort of counter-intuitive because you just have a 12” driver in a square box and you think that would dictate the polar distribution. If your box was some weird-ass dodecahedron with reflectors or multiple drivers, that would be a different story.

We don't share our measurements, there's too many armchair non-engineers who'll jump to wrong conclusions. Like for like a 12" will have better dispersion than a 15". But both our 12XN and 10CR drivers are designed to have unusually wide dispersion thanks to the distribution of mass and flexibility across the radiating area of the cones. As you can hear, it makes a big difference! That's why we could go from a 3-way to a 2-way design for a high accuracy speaker after we developed the 12XN.

Best regards,

Alex

06/03/26 - Big Twin 2 - USA

Hey guys, is there anywhere in the USA I can purchase this crossover module??

Ed

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Hi Ed,

This can only be purchased direct from ourselves:

https://barefacedaudio.com/products/crossover-module?_pos=1&_sid=04c992e72&_ss=r

Best regards,

Alex

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27/02/26 - Big Baby 3 - USA

I’m not sure if this is a real intended feature in the BB3 or not, but I wanted to see what you think. When I was playing my bass using headphones, I was turning my tweeter knob from 100% to 50% (where I usually keep it for bass) on my BB3 and noticed it was actually influencing what I heard inside of my headphones. I checked multiple times, did the tweeter at different levels (0%, 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%) both up and down and the result persisted accordingly. More and less tweeter level, respectively. My amp (a Seymour Duncan PowerStage 700 Bass) was muted and I have closed-back Beyerdynamic DT 770 Pro Xs so it wouldn’t be acoustic bleed.

I wrote Seymour Duncan about it and they forwarded it to engineering and tried doing they same thing and didn’t get the same result. So besides the idea “that somehow the harness to the speaker outs and the harness to the XLR/headphones somehow come in proximity to each other enough to get some capacitance coupling” and “could be touching which there could be the remotest possibility of them crossing signal.” Besides this “most remote possibility”, they’re stumped and would be very surprised if this if even in that case that there would be cross talk between the signals, but wanted me to open up my amp to look at some wires to compare my wires with an image they sent 😬

Just figured I’d ask you because yeah…this is pretty weird as far as circuits go but I’m not complaining. I dig it!

Thanks,

Allen

01/03/26 - Big Baby 2 + Dubster 2 - UK

25/02/26 - Super Twin - UK

24/02/26 - Upsizing 212BB - USA

My cabinet arrived safely! I didn't have the 16 ohm Copperback in the final order like I meant to, but I'm sourcing one here in the US and plan to swap it out. 

In the meantime, the Vintage 30 sounds excellent with my Sovtek Mig 60. I'm particularly pleased with the dynamic range.

Anything special to note about replacing a speaker with the AVD? It looks like you pull the grille cloth out, remove the speaker from the front, and then access the wiring. Is that correct?

Regarding something that can power the 12XN and hopefully both speakers, I'm looking at a Crown XLS. https://www.crownaudio.com/en-US/product_families/xls-drivecore-2-series

But I'm wondering about what would be good headroom while maintaining the ability to get down to a practice volume. 

Here are the power specs for the series:

Is there one that would be suitable wattage to run both amp channels? One channel into each speaker with the stereo in, to allow balancing the volume between the speakers? If not, I'm thinking that at least bridged at a nominal 4 ohms into the mono input would be sufficient power. But I'm still not sure which to go with, if something else would be better, or if I need two power amps for this.

Thank you for your thoughts. I'm looking forward to hearing the cab in its full capacity.

Best,

Mira

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Hi Mira,

Here's how to swap the speakers but it's as you guessed!

https://youtu.be/bSUs6cBQQss?si=0V1sYZrVVFsTezPF

There's only 3dB in max output between the 1002 and the 2502, so you'll get a bit more with the 2502 but also have more risk of toasting things. They should all go as quiet as you need - I used to use a PLX 3002 for home practice and gigging, 900W per cab!

I assumed you'd decided against the Copperback when you ordered, didn't realise you'd forgotten it, sorry! Let us know how you get on with the cab!

Best regards,

Alex

22/02/26 - Super Twin - Unknown

Hello

I’m the happy owner/player of a gen 3 Barefaced Super Twin.

I’ve had it for years and enjoyed, however I am now wondering if I should look into downsizing the cab… so thought about asking your unbiased advise

For context: I play in a loudish psychedelic rock bands, 90% of the time I play in 100-200 people venues with PA support where I send an xlr output to main desk. Using my cab slightly tilted as a stage monitor, playing 4 string passive basses with effects, and a high pass filter around 50-75hz. General driven or distorted tone into a PF-500 bass head (500w solid state amp), with master rarely above 12-13 hours on the dial.

So, while I enjoy the overall sense of headroom and volume authority I don’t know how my CJ is really the big cab and how much is placebo, and I should look into downsizing (easier transport, less stage size, etc…

What would be your advise?

Thanks in advance,

Jaime

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20/02/26 - Big Twin 2 - UK

I bought a Big Twin 2 second hand from someone wanting to get a Super Twin (to scale his cab down a bit) - so hopefully you will get a sale indirectly from him. 

BTW - the Big Twin 2 is immense - better than any cab I've owned, including Ashdown, Trace Elliot, David Eden and the most recent Markbass 104. Huge sound, I had to turn down my volume slightly compared to using my Markbass. Works perfectly with my valve Trace Elliot head too. 

I get the things said on your videos about more bottom end not being flabby, and honest sound. As just hitting the pick slightly differently gets you a different sound.  It's more than honest though, honest can sometimes have a connotation about not being great i.e. to be honest give you bad news/ candid. It's got more depth and wider bandwidth available. It's more expressive. 

It's like going from a cheap pair of headphones to Apple Airpods, or going from HD to Ultra HD, everything is better! 

If you would like a review, happy to do this with a picture. Just let me know. But just wanted to share my views, keep up the great work! 

Thanks 

Mark

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Hi Mark,

That's great to hear - I think expressive is a good word for it. I think you'll find the honesty catches out players who aren't as good as they think they are though! ;-) Do send over a photo of the rig. We've been v pleased with how well the BT3 gets on with valve heads too!

Best regards,

Alex

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16/02/26 - Big Baby 3 - Canada

Hey. Bought a couple of BB3’s off you guys a while ago and worth every precious penny.

They've served me well as a bass player and have done a bit of time being PA speakers when we play at places without an in house system. I’m now in the market for something smaller for living room and cafe gigs. I'm looking at an Activier One10. Is there still the possibility of an MAP (mono active passive) version? In case I'm mixing up terms its the one I've seen pictures of that can be passive or active. Is that option available in both the mono and stereo version?

Thank you and good day

Ian

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Hi Ian,

Yes, the active/passive version of the One10 has proven quite popular!

[You'll need to add a One10T to your basket and then the Activier separately, making sure to select Yes (cab can also be used as a passive cab) under With speaker inputs (for external amp)]

Glad to hear the BB3s have been performing well!

Best regards,

Alex