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Tim Heidner

 

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Post  Posted 5 Dec 2010 6:37 pm    
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Cliff Kane


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Post  Posted 5 Dec 2010 6:58 pm    
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I never weighed mine, but when it had a JBL in it it felt about as heavy as my '68 Fender Twin Reverb with the stock fender speakers. Now that it has a neo speaker in it it feels a little lighter than the Twin but not by much. They are heavy, loud and sound great.
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David Higginbotham

 

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Post  Posted 5 Dec 2010 7:41 pm    
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If I remember correctly it's in the 55 to 60 lbs. range.
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Tim Heidner

 

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Post  Posted 5 Dec 2010 7:43 pm    
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there's one on CL near here with a JBL in it, guy sent me some terrible pics, but the price is good, I guess I better go look at it.
How did you like the JBL in yours, Cliff? Did it blow, or you just wanted something lighter?
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Tim Heidner

 

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Post  Posted 5 Dec 2010 7:45 pm    
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I saw an an old post on here about a LTD that said 67#
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Cliff Kane


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Post  Posted 5 Dec 2010 8:03 pm    
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Tim, it sounded great with the JBL, and the JBL did blow. It was the original speaker, the Peavey labeled JBL (I think it is a K130 with alnico magnet), I think my amp is a '75 or '76, so the speaker was over 30 years old. I think the very first Session 400's had JBL D130's, and they blew pretty often as the amp puts out 200+ watts. Someday I'll have the JBL reconed and try it in the amp again. I replaced it with a Neo Black Widow and that speaker sounds very good, very smooth and nice from lows to highs. I am happy with the Neo BW, and it has made a difference in weight. The amp is still big and heavy but it's a little easier to swing in and out of the back seat of a car than when it had the JBL in it. If it's in decent condition these are very good amps. They are an early design and I believe they have discrete transistors and components instead of IC's and chips, and the cabinet is nice and big, not like the Nashville 400's, etc. For a time I had this amp and an Evans FET 500. Both amps sounded great, but I liked the Session a bit more, sold the Evans and kept the Session. It's got tremolo too Whoa!
Btw, the Session 400 and the Session 400 LTD are a little different from each other.

Good luck!
Cliff
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Tim Heidner

 

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Post  Posted 5 Dec 2010 8:13 pm    
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thanks for the reply, Cliff. Does it have an external speaker jack?
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Cliff Kane


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Post  Posted 5 Dec 2010 8:54 pm    
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There are two speaker jacks. The internal speaker plugs into one jack and the other can be for an external cabinet, or you could run two external cabs without the internal speaker. I think the Session 400 LTD has only one jack. The LTD has a smaller cabinet and chassis. The amp goes in a 4ohm speaker/speakers.

Check it out: go to this page and you can download a pdf file of the manual for the Session 400, Session 400 LTD, etc.:
http://www.peavey.com/support/searchmanuals/archived.cfm?page=S
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John Stuart

 

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Post  Posted 6 Dec 2010 12:00 am     Peavey session 400
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Too much . Sounds great though. Disc compression anyone
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Ken Fox


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Post  Posted 6 Dec 2010 4:13 am    
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From the owners manual:

If you run a two ohm load the amp will perform poorly. This is form the original manual, when they first came out with JBL and 212 EV speaker arrangements. The second manual stated not less than a 4 ohm load, period!! For two speakers they should be 8 ohms each, for a total of a 4 ohm load. Two 4 ohm speakers will be a 2 ohm load. That will result in lowered output power and overheating of the output transistors. Transistor amps should never be ran into a load impedance of less than the nameplate rating. An 8 ohm load is fine, just runs cooler and less power. Even a no speaker load will not bother the amp.

Total opposite of a tube amp, it does not tolerate a higher impedance well and cannot operate without a speaker load, that situation can destroy the output transformer. A tube amp can tolerate a lower than rated speaker load, but not the best for performance either.


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