Paul
We are starting to get some traction, as they say in adland - but Australia has a total population of only 20 million and, surprisingly, bass players are only a relatively small proportion of this.
You may see a couple of nice Rogues bound for Australia pop up in the factory to customer section soon.
As the name implies, Acoustic Image products were designed with the needs of acoustic musicians in mind. The combo units sound really nice with double bass, guitar, violin, etc. Built in digital reverb and a mic channel are options - so a singer / musician or player of a mic'd instrument can have a great sounding, light weight package.
I heard a violinist playing with a jazz group using an AI combo in a medium size pub venue and he was blowing the rest of the group away loudness-wise.
The amplifiers have a direct out - so on larger gigs they's be used just for stage monitoring with a feed into the PA.
At the Alembic launch we had an Excel paying through an AI head into a B2 in a jazz / funk setting in a 150 seat venue and many people commented on how good it sounded.
But you are right - 200W into 4 ohms will not satisfy our louder brothers...the AI people are aware of this and there will be a remedy soon. Stay tuned.
