Harley Benton BLOCK-115V

I bought 2 of these, one a B stock, to replace my now more than 30 year old 1x15s one of which had a nervous breakdown at a gig. My plan was to replace the drivers in these cabs with my Celestion 400s as I am using a 600w head and the handling capacity of these two cabs is 500w. Having established that I would have to do some fairly serious work to replace the drivers I have left the originals in for now. They don't actually seem to be bothered by the extra power (they are rated at 500w peak each) and the sound is honestly really impressive. The horns are super crisp, probably the most forward ones I have heard on a bass cabinet - and I like that, otherwise what would be the point of them? I measured the SPL of both these and my old Celestion loaded cabs and these are very marginally louder (around 2db). In short I shall be using them for the next few gigs.
Pros: relatively lightweight (I know 30kgs is not to be sniffed at). They look good out of the box and sound good.
Cons: I have now gigged these twice. It is clear that the covering will not survive the rigours of transportation at all well. Both cabs are marked even though they have not been roughly handled - the covering is simply fragile. But the most important issue is the lack of any corner protection. The B stock one already has one slightly damaged corner. I have ordered a set of corner protectors for next season (our area really only has summer gigs).
Conclusion: happy with my purchase, excellent value and a very crisp sound with the horns switched on. You will need to accept that they won't look pristine for long and you will have to buy some corner protection. Because the sound is the most important thing for a speaker cabinet I heartily recommend these.

Excellent cabinet, for the price. I have had an initial play with the cabinet and it goes loud, has a nice clear tone, the sound typical of a 15", punchy, nice midrange and with the tweeter off subdued highs, even at low volumes you get that 15" thump. I have found a rattle in my room, that was not present with my 12" cabinet, so some hunting to do. Personally I prefer it with the tweeter turned off, for that classical 15" sound. My only gripe would be not being to attenuate the tweeter, but at the price I think it is to much to expect, and I am happy with the response of the cabinet with it off. I have the Harley Benton Block 800 that I plan to use with this cabinet, to give me a more laid back retro sound, so far it is ticking all the boxes, especially with my basses with flatwound strings. Don't let the price deter you from this cabinet, it is perfect for that 15" cab sound, especially when I use my Broughton audio Fliptop pre-amp (an Ampeg B15 simulation pedal).

Ich habe mir die Box als Zusatzbox zu der Block 410V gekauft. Sie macht genau das was sie soll, sie liefert ordentlich Bass mit ausreichend Power. Der Sound ist auch hier klar und dank des zuschaltbaren HF-Treibers sehr definiert.
Einzig der Tolex-Bezug sieht mir sehr anfällig aus, was dank des fehlenden Kantenschutzes wahrscheinlich schnell zu optischen "Macken" führen wird. Aber für den Preis - TOP
(... sonst hätte ich mir diese Box nach der 410er nicht gekauft.. :) )