Barefaced Activier Guitar Amplifier

Speaker-cab innovators Barefaced add a dedicated power amp option to their full-range speaker designs.

DAVE LOCKWOOD

Regular readers may recall my enthusiasm for the innovative Barefaced Reformer 1x12 guitar speaker cabinet back in 2018. Barefaced’s AVD (Augmented Vent Diffractor) design acts as both a tuned port for greater low-frequency extension and a diffuser for an amount of rear-firing sound. The result is an unfeasibly small and lightweight speaker cab that just sounds so much bigger than you’d imagine it possibly could. Barefaced have a lot of other cab designs, too, and started out making bass cabinets that were significantly lighter in weight than other bass cabs without this adversely affecting their performance, but it was apparent from the outset that their AVD cabs might also make a good platform for a full-range system. Barefaced soon launched their Reality series, marrying Celestion’s two-way, coaxial F12-X200 ‘Full Range…

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