Re: Looking for budget bass amplifier advice
I stand corrected 
I still see knob and tube wiring in use here.. not in the city but the barns in the surrounding countryside.
I see many instance of substandard electrical work. at present I have sound and lights + power distro in an old building that was once a textile mill. some of the breakers in the panel had exploded apparently due to getting wet.
All the facilities that I take care of full time had substandard/insufficient power for for the existing loads. All were upgraded at significant expense. One 200A service was upped to 600 A which required pole transformer change. After an arson fire, one site was changed from closed delta to Y. This necessitated adding a buckboost transformer to operate some remote 230V relays.
One bar was originally a "coach house"
This fall I was recording at a benefit where the electric panel getting wet because it was raining and the roof was leaking. This was the stage power. No it wasn't like this just because someone was working on it. But help was close at hand in the event of a fire... after all this WAS the fire department.
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