The sound is great, i bought this cab along with a Harke HA2500 head and its pleanty loud.

The paper cones are great they deliver a very warm tone along with high frequency horn its awesome.

You plug it in and play its pretty simple, i also like the idea of 2 1/4' jacks

I have not had this amp for very long, about a month but it still sounds like the day i bought it plus i sit on it at band practice all the time and its seems like its gonna hold up.

I never would imagine to get this much quality and sound for more than this site is selling it for! great buy.

I hear its great but i dont think im gonna have to get a hold of them.

Its not the worst thing to look at but theres better, though it is very original.

Active Musician

Phycadelic/Rock/Atenative

good for reggae bass playerz. most of the clubs in hawaii aren't to big, so this is awesome. if the cab is to small, run another 4x10 or 1x15 hartke. thats what i do. the sound is cherry. wouldn't want any other cab

to get a great sound is pretty easy. all you need is a head that can kick and know how to set the eq.

from what i see, this cab is pretty light in weight and can take a beating.

active musican, recording artist,

reggae

great sound,, especially with a subwoofer!!

it works great with my subwoofer

it fits in good with my 18 inch sub!! it s like i can play just the hartke or for big jobs i use the subwoofer too

the corners are a little rough but i ve gave it a hard life

it s a a wesome cabinet,, especially for the money!!

i bought it at soundhouse music,, those guys i trust!!

just the word hartke on front says it all

active musicican

blues to bluegrass

Very capable Bass Cab. Can do everything from thumping, thunderous, booming rock to snappy, punchy funk.

very sturdy construction. I'm a touring musiucian and hate having to lug this cabinet out of the back of the trailer because it is SO heavy and durable. That is until I plug it in for cound check and then hear what it does for my sound. The recessed handles make loading a lot easier thatn with some other cabs.

Not sure if the one I got was just a fluke, but the tweeter blew before I even finished paying it off.

The jury is still out on the quality issue. I'm wawiting to see how long before the tweeter goes out on the replacement.

haven't dealt with Hartke on this one

Not as visually striking as some of the cabinets with the aluminum cones. But you can't hear pretty now can you? I took off the steel grill and painted my band logo on it and it looks sharp.

Rock, metal, funk, jazz, fusion

It can give you the sound you want by dialing in correctly, I had to step away from the bass cab because I heard vibrating, it turns out to be my walls and hanging lamps. This Bass Cab absolutley crushes what Ive been listening too. My Band we jam and I know I can be heard much better than the 2 12' speakers at our practice studio. I use a Hartke 2500, I ve heard others use too much watts for this Cab so use the 2500 not the 4000 unit. If you go for the 4000 buy another Bass Cab and you'd be ridiculously loud.

The plastic corner have stack edges other than that this thing is plug and play.

Very easy to get what you want of this product just dont go using a very strong amp....a 350 Watt amp will do just fine. I have a 250 and it does what its supposed to do...

Very solid and contructed professionally. It was not made on a friday for sure and its a heavy sucker. Im a big dude so I dont worry about transporting it...I got home and found out they left it out back...UPS...ERRRGG but it was in great condition and came out popping nice out of the box

yeah this was the most popular cab at this price and I see why....

no need for them yet so no rating.

Its well built sturdy and strong and kicks butt..Like me.

Serious Hobbyist and Active Player

R&B, Jazz, Blues Funks with Hip Hop Appeal.

Cabinet sounds pretty good as long as you don't push it too hard. Good bottom for a 410 cabinet and the paper cones give it a nice warm sound. I give it a 7 due to the fact that there is no level control for the horn and it can get too bright real quick. If you are expecting huge four ten tone from this cabinet, you will get it but only at low to moderate volumes. It is good at what it's designed for. An entry level 410 cabinet. If you want huge four ten tone, I'm sorry but you need to spend a lot more that $249.00 to get that.

Pretty decent for the price. It needs a level control for the horn and needs casters of some sort. Plywood construction so that's a plus. The speaker inputs are 1/4 only. That should tell you something. The lack of speak-on connectors means this cabinet is pretty much designed for low power amps. I tried to put pop in casters on mine but was unable to get the speakers out to drill the bottom. The speaker connections are soldered (a good thing) but the wiring harness is stapled to the back of the cabinet with no room to lift the speaker out. I refuse to drill with the drivers in as wood chips or splinters can get caught in the cones. The cabinet is nicely damped with foam and braced up nice which contributes to the warm tone. The rear port is not screened so be careful or you might get something tossed in back there. My daughter tossed my cell phone in through the rear port and I had to pull the side handle to reach in and remove the phone. A pain in the rear!

Plug your speaker cable in the back. Is that easy enough for you?

Fit, finish and overall construction are good for an entry level cabinet. Hardware used is of equal or better quaility than other cabs I've seen in this price range. This cabinet will serve you well if you understand up front that it's an inexpensive speaker cabinet. In other words don't try to knock walls down by shoving a 1000 watts through it and trying to keep up with your buddies 100 watt super cranked half stack. I see no reason why this cabinet shouldn't hold up well if you use it for it's intended purpose. Namely low to moderate volumes with a 200 to 300 watt head.

Seems to be good value for the money.

I gave this a 5 due to the fact that I can't comment as I've never had to call Hartke.

Everything about this cabinet just screams "average".

Musician for 35 years

rock old school R&B

Gigging bassist

Classic rock

It's has a good sound. Good fidelity and good low for a four ten speaker but not too much power.

It's look great and is not too heavy if you compare with another four ten cabs.

I think that the only problem that has this hartke speaker is that is not too good if you want a lot of power. The 400 watts is not RMS. I use it with my hartke 4000 head (only 220 at 8 ohm) and it sound good but it blow up one time and in the past I have the same problem with a hartke VX 115 cab and I had to change it for this 4 10. So if you have a regular head, this is the cab for you. But, if you want a lot of power, you have to be careful, or go for the hartke XL series.

For this price is a very good cab.

Hartke support is great!

Rock, balads, gospel and everything else

It is a nice clean sound. It has good response and it works with most of the styles I play (Rock, Funk, Jazz).

It is the same features as any other amp cab for the most part. The only thing it lacks is a switch for the horn driver.

It's good quality. Well built. Sounds nice.

It sounds great for the price I payed for it.

Major Hobbyist

All types of rock, Funk, Jazz, Drum and Bass.

Low frequencies distorted at higher volumes

Simplae but gets the job done

pretty well built,, except the grill on my cab vibrates when i play an A note

great price

no problems yet

Active Musician

Rock

i though that fender was the only amp for me because i love the lows that it gives but when i heard the sound that Hartke gives I hadto have it it has the lows that shKE THE ROOM i LOVE IT

i feel this is under price, you guys are being robbed

Active Musican

Gospel Jass

Active musician

Gospel, jass

Overall the sounds is pretty good. WAY better than every thing in it's price range, but I've played on some Hartke's with aluminum speaker and they did sound a little better. Some of the Fender bassmans sounded better too, but those are expensive.

I think the 400w is peak power capacity instead of RMS power, so too powerful of an amp will blow the speakers. The horn could use a switch, too.

plug and play

I bought mine used, so the carpet was torn in one place and the plastic corners are a little banged up. But, she is robust, she could probable handle a few falls on her face!

By far the best in its price range...and many other price ranges.

The last I checked there was no Hartke.com or something like that. All the hartke products are listed on their parent company's website. I've also notice that not a whole lot of smaller stores carry Hartke here in the Indiana/Kentucky area, so actually getting to play on one was kind of a pain, and once I found a dealer the idiot on the other end of the phone had no clue what the hell I was talking about. So, I'm not looking forward to dealing with Hartke in the future.

The big white HARTKE written on the cab looks pretty cool, it would only look better with the aluminum speakers!

Semi-Active Musician

Blues, Rock, Jazz, Church

Bought this because I wanted to start using the 10's instead of 15's. As For tone, It definitely brought up the upper mids to clean up and tighten the tone but took away from the bottom. Push too much bass tone, speakers start farting. For small venues, this does ok. For mid to large clubs, your gonna need more. For recording, it surprised me. It Did pretty good.

Looks great and for now seems solid. Though I have my doughts.

East to use, yes. Easy to set up at a Gig, yes. Plug is a but shabby but it works. ( cannot control tweeter separate ).

It seems to be made well and designed well. Will it stand the test of time? I owned this for 6 months now and it already has a plastic corner loose.

It may be worth the price. I just wish it played as good as it looked.

Never had to call support yet. No major problems.

I Should have spent more.

Playing bass since 1972

Blues, country, classic rock, Rockabilly, Honky Tonk

Great sound for the $$. I have this paired with the vx115, powered with a carvin R1000. Have peen playing through that setup for almost two years, never had a problem. I have a behringer bx3000 as a backup, which is ok for practice, but not enough power for serious performing.

pretty plain jane, what do you want for $300??

plastic corners are cheap

never had a problem, never needed support

active musician

rock

I thought this cab was all that because it was my first "big rig." But now I moved up to an SWR rig and this is way weak by comparison. It just didn't have any punch or articulation. But I was using it with a Behringer BX3000T head which may have contributed to my opinion of this cab. I think it would be good for any lower volume music like jazz or light rock. BUt if your band is loud or you need to compete with two guitarists, this isn't the one for you.

This cab has nothing but two 1/4 inputs on the back. No Speakons, no tweeter control, etc.

Didn't feel very solid. The jack plate was plastic and it had an overall cheap feel to it.

What you pay for is what you get.

Never dealt.

Don't ever want another one. It does look rather perty though.

Warm. Punchy. Twangy. Whichever of these sounds you prefer, is what you can get. This cabinet delivers all.

The cab should have retractable wheels for easy transportation. It's a pain to carry it around, but not too bad...

The wood is sturdy, and the handles are perfect for carrying the cabinet around. However, I've had one of the plastic corners on my cab , but, it's not a problem I sleep on. An overall road-wrothy cabinet.

Cheap. I prefer paper cones to aluminum, more warmth in the sound than the screechy aluminum cones, and Hartke's aluminum cones cabs are very expensive. Also, Hartke's 2x15 paper cone cab isn't a cabinet for making a stack out of, and Hartke's 8x10 is too big and expensive. So, if your looking for the best paper cone cab to make a stack out of, this is it. $600 delivers you Hartke's best.

Never had to deal with Hartke. Their products are EXTREMELY road-worthy. Never had a problem.

The cabinet is road-worthy, and can easily be stacked with another cabinet, because of the design of the plastic endcaps. The best deal you can get from Hartke.

punk rock, and a little metal