Thought I’d share this with you; I had a couple of thoughts the other day; one was that it would be really cool if Marshall joined the FRFR game, and did what Fender did with the FR10/FR12.
I then thought that actually there’s also a place in the market for a ‘desktop’ FR cab; something small enough for home desktop use, but loud enough for coffee shop gigs. Yes, you could use a pair of studio monitors, and I have done that, but I do personally like the amp in the room feel that some FR cabs give you, and I think it’s fair to say a certain amount of that ‘feel’ comes actually from the look of the thing; a plastic box doesn’t cut it, but how about something that looks like this…?
Headrush have just launched the FRFR Go, which ticks that box nicely, but not I’m sure about the look or quality of it.
And then I realised that a similar thing from a classic amp brand already does exist - this is the Marshall Stanmore III, from their range of Bluetooth speakers. It’s not battery powered, which is a shame, but it has RCA inputs on the back. I’ve tried one today with my Quad Cortex, and to my ears it sounds great. So my next thing will be to try a pair of them together… has anyone else tried something similar?
I use the Marshall tufton and it works really great as a companion for my QC/NC. Battery for hours and a nice little EQ on top. I had to dial back the bass quite a bit, but for small gigs it sounds great.
I think the frfr is just a label. For loud gigs I have a fender fr-10 and I love it, but it’s nowhere near a flat response
Ah, like you I have the Fender FR10 (and I’m actually just waiting for my second one to arrive, for stereo output) and love it; I think it sounds absolutely great and it’s a perfect form factor. Interesting as you’re not the only one to say it’s not a flat response (I wouldn’t even know where to start working that out ) but to my ears it doesn’t sound too far off my Yamaha HS3’s.
I’ve had a look at the Tufton, it’s a real shame the Stanmore isn’t battery powered as otherwise the form factor and style is perfect. But the key thing is the Stanmore has RCA inputs.
How are you inputting your QC to the Tufton, that doesn’t appear to have an form of aux inputs at all?
The 3,5 mm aux input is on the back and it has no latency, which was the biggest problem with most of these battery powered bluetooth speakers.
The only problem is, that if there is no sound at all, it goes to a “sleep” mode. So you have to hit one Chord to activate it. A little like my studio monitors.
The rest ist great. I played little acoustic gigs with it and with my folk band even used it for bass, while the others were playing unplugged. Little jams with friends etc. are no problem and playing to backing tracks is great, because the music sounds good.
For everything with drums involved I use my Fender Fr-10s
Not for gigs or loud jams. It can get loud in a way, but I use it to play with unplugged acoustic guitars, outside or to play bass with my folk band. For louder settings you’ll need a bigger solution like the fender fr 10/12.
It’s definitely better and louder then the new head rush fr with battery.
That’s interesting- I’m trialling a pair of the Headrush now. One comment in the Andertons YouTube video is that they’re not very loud; I’m surprised at this comment because to me they sound pretty loud for the size