Customer Feedback

10/03/26 - Two10S - USA

Hi, 

I have been using a Two10 cab (no tweeter) with a 500 watt head. The cab is AWESOME, but the head recently died and I have to replace it. I am looking at an 800 watt head, but I am fearfull that I could break the cab with 800 watts. I do not use any pedals/effects, but I do use active basses, and will normally bump the bass control up. Is it a bad idea to use an 800 watt head with this cab?

I'm not sure you might be able to help, but figured there was no harm in asking?

Best regards,

Troy

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Hi Troy,

It's usually fine, it just requires some awareness!

https://barefacedaudio.com/pages/10cr-power-handling

Best regards,

Alex

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

05/03/26 - Three10T - UK

First night out with the Three10.

Frankenjazz -> Darkglass Anagram -> Baby Sumo -> Three10.

Sounded great 😊

Alan

06/03/26 - One10 - UK

I play through a Genz-Benz Streamliner 600 into a single One10CR. Utterly brilliant but I want to expand a little. I’m thinking of replacing my old-dodgy GK Fusion 800s with a new version for a punchy alternative amp. Shall I get a 2nd 10CR, a 10T, or move to one of your 12XR as a different style —OR not buy an amp at all but one of your powered cabs?? I now play a 5 String Overwater Progress IV in a 4-piece (2 acoustics/cajon/bass) Americana/Country/Rock/Blues/Latin - quite Rocky at times(AC/DC You Shook Me…)

Roger

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Hi Roger,

Do you want more of the same vibe (the extra cab will make it louder and fatter) or would you like some different tones?

Best regards,

Alex

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I liked the punch, clarity and detail I had with the GK amp as an alternative. My playing is getting a bit more accurate, so perhaps that is starting to appeal.

Thanks for your reply, Alex 

Roger

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A Super Compact T or for even more accuracy a Big Baby 3 would be a nice way to go then!

Best regards,

Alex

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

09/03/26 - One10 / One10T - USA

My One10T and One10 are very loud and sound great. It's all I'll ever need. Barefaced rules!

Rob

05/03/26 - Three10T - UK

Just wanted to let you know that the speaker arrived safely. 

06/03/26 - Two10ST - Canda

Hi guys,

Just a quick note, I received the 2x10, and it sounds fantastic.

Attached photo is my rig.

Cheers,

Devon

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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04/03/26 - One10 - Sweden

I got my cab today. Have only tried it at home, but it sounds great!

Thanks!

Peter

02/03/26 - Six10T - UK

Just wanted to email to say thanks so much for the excellent cab. I got to use it at rehearsal last week plus two gigs at the weekend and I don't think life will ever be the same again! lol. Crystal clear tones, volume and clarity. Was incredible!

Thanks again!

Billy

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