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  1. once again, nobody bought them. That's a pretty good reason. Actually, right around the time the Powerblock was introduced Saint Louis Music was also bought by LOUD Technologies (formerly known as Mackie) and the company laid off about 90% of all the Saint Louis Music's key employees and also relocated a lot of the manufacturing to Vietnam. Kiss goodbye to pretty much all products introduced by the former company. ...except a select few that were rereleased under slightly different cosmetic packaging (mainly few tube amps and the GX/GFX lines that had been around for ages).
  2. Other favourite-of-the-month amps appeared. That's what happened.
  3. I grew out of "Heavy Metal". Nowadays I mostly prefer to listen to Death, Folk or Black Metal. :poke:
  4. He used it to perform Thomas Youngs Double-Slit interference experiments. That is to say when he saw twins in the audience he used it to signal one of his roadies (Tom Young) to get them backstage passes with no interference. And by doing so reflected light in a cool way.
  5. Some say he found them and thought they would change the direction of electromagnetic radiation visible to human eye at an interface between two different media in a manner that would provide conscious subjective experiences.
  6. In the late 1960's and early 1970's most speaker manufacturers simply weren't producing enough of high power speakers that could handle the increased output power of amplifiers. Peavey had several issues with failures of JBL and Altec-Lansing speakers that simply didn't last in the high-powered amps. Peavey tried to acquire more robust speakers from few places but it didn't work out too well. Eminence, whose speakers Peavey had used for long time, didn't at the time want to start manufacturing such speakers. Electro-Voice had such designs but the company refused to deliver Peavey's order and eventually decided to do no business with Peavey. Now, it's a pretty tough task to try manufacturing amps if you can't source reliable speakers from anywhere. Especially from some dependable source. Thus Hartley decided that they should simply start making the speakers themselves. It was almost a neccessity. There was no other choice. It just happened that some former Electro-Voice employees stepped up and proposed a business deal where Peavey would setup their own speaker factory. Peavey would provide funding and required stuff, the designers their knowhow. They created the Black Widow speakers. Peavey speakers are not neccessarily prefererred by guitarists but one must keep in mind that Peavey didn't and doesn't manufacture guitar amps only. At the time when the speakers were an issue Peavey was also one of the leading suppliers of PA amps and PA speaker systems. Even if the Peavey speakers weren't the best for guitars they were good and reliable choice for PA's. And besides, what else could they have used? They didn't have any other options at the time. I think that since then there hasn't been too many reasons why they should change that plan now. As for their tone... I guess that's subjective. There are thousands of people who say that even all Peavey amps sound crappy so maybe their ideal of tone simply just doesn't correlate with each and every person.
  7. These posts will disappear when HC 2.0 comes.
  8. 3/2 is 1. Not 1.5, but 1. This is what I was actually taught by one of my maths teachers, who is a Dr of Particle Physics, you even get taught his theories if you do a doctorate in Physics, but yeah, 3/2 is 1, because you always give the answer to the same amount of decimal places. I was always taught that halfway values (.5) are rounded up but when I looked that up I found out that you can round them either up, to zero, half to even or stochastically. I. {censored}ing. Hate. Math.
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