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Are you trying to carry your whole rig from the car to venue / reh room in one trip? I think I'm doing really well that I can do it 3 or 4 trips and then there is usually another 5 or 6 trips carrying my share of the PA and lights.
MDF ? Avoid - very dense, heavy material. Good quality spruce or ply cabinet would be a lot lighter.
You could always get the combo chopped into a head + cab. That also gives you more options - 1x12, 2x10, 2x12, 4x10, 4x12, or swapping the head. Plus Snakeskin Tolex is an option ! (For what i's worth I use two 1x12s, or a 2x10)
As you're stuck with a private resale now - think about what you could do with what you have first.
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So it's actually not too bad. Its slap bang in-between the 48lbs each for both my Marshall DSL401 and Laney VC30-210, and the 58lbs of my Valvetronix AD120VTX. Even the matching AD212 2x12 extn cab is around 42lbs so its not light either. And that's with Neodymium speakers in both the AD120VTX and AD212!
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ICBM beat me to it but there is not the flexibility re separate speakers with the ID as with valve amps with transformer taps*.
IC has been kind enough to say that the ID amps do not sound at all bad considering,
1) They are Sstate
2) They are "modellers" (for want of a lot more words!)
3 The are Blackstars!
I do not think I am being disloyal in absentia when I say that the 4R speakers are not THE best units around and I am fairly sure the amps are "voiced" to improve this a bit.
But then ARE there any really good 4 Ohm guitar speakers (at sensible cost here)?
*Must ask if the amps would be safe on a high power auto transformer.
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It only really matters for a 1x12" obviously, since otherwise you just use two 8s.
I would definitely agree that the amps might have been voiced for a particular cheap speaker given my experience. It almost certainly means they won't sound good with deep/bright speakers like the G12T-75, but I would think probably still good with V30s - and the extra sensitivity would mean that running at 8 ohms shouldn't matter. If the stock speakers are no more than 97dB the loss of power won't make any difference.
Given what you said about testing them into a pretty severe inductive load, I'd be inclined to say yes.
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Your combo weighs a couple of pounds more than my Matchless head, I'd consider that reasonable for gigging. I would not however be carrying it to every rehearsal...
I use the backline in the rehearsal room, whatever it might be; practice should in the main be hassle free IMO. Couldn't be bothered schlepping an amp twice a week to a place that already had some.
To be fair I hate heavy amps too but my experience suggests that weight is in many cases directly related to sonic quality (transformers mainly).
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Grow a beard and play folk.
Sell a PRS and buy an AxeFx.
Pay £40 a month for a Gym. Make friends with a weight lifter who likes your band.
Deal with it.
I do think the id head and a cab is the best bet. And you have band mates - fit a handle on each side and carry it as a pair.
Or get a 4x12. Not so great for stairs, but a 4x12 with casters is really easy to move around, as long as you have an extra pair of hands to get it in and out the van. But I don't think that's what you want!