Product: SWR Goliath Jr. III
Price Paid: 370
Submitted
03/23/2008
at
11:25am
by
Royal Rumpus
Features
:
10
Manufactured in 2006. Two 10" cones and One Horn with built in attenuator. 8 Ohm model. Only gripe is that it did not come with covers! Come on SWR these should be standard issue with a cab of this quality!!!
Sound Quality
:
10
Used with Warwick Fortress one passive and corvette active 4. Sound is Hi-Fi Quality. Definition Excellent. Two 10" speakers give tremendous punch, warmth, depth and clarity. Horn Give Superb top end clarity and is controllable with attenuator to give superb variation.
Reliability
:
10
never let me down. Bomb proof construction. Brilliant build quality.
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
Never needed it. Don't suppose I ever will.
Overall Rating
:
10
Would not use anything else. Use with a SWR Big Ben 18" cabinet and a bass SWR Bass 350 head. Sound is simply stunning hi-fi top end quality. I simply don't think there's anything to compare. This setup is a dream and I would replace it with exactly the same should anyhing happen to it. Hopefully by now they supply covers though at no extra cost!!
Product: SWR Goliath Jr. III
Price Paid: Euros 400 USED
Submitted
03/30/2007
at
08:51am
by
Rob Wiegman
Features
:
8
- 1/4" In/Out and Speakon?? Input Jacks
- Horn Protection Circuit
- Speakers: (2) 10" custom-designed PAS?? drivers
- (1) Foster?? Horn
- Controls: High Frequency Attenuator
- Covering: Black Carpet with Chrome Stamped Steel Vibration-Free Grille
- Weight: 55 lbs.
- Height: 15.75"
- Width: 23"
- Depth: 16.5"
- Power Handling: 350 Watts RMS
- Frequency Response: 105 dB SPL @ 1W1M (-3dB @ 45Hz and 15KHz)
- SPL: 105 dB SPL @ 1W1M (-3dB @ 45Hz and 15KHz)
They look cool! Features are ok, build solid, not much to complain here.
Sound Quality
:
5
I used it with:
- Basses: Ken Smith BSR5M, Yamaha TRB6PII, Fender Am. Dlx. Jazzbass V, Clover Xpression XP15.5, Tobias Classic 6
- Amps: SWR 750x, SWR SM-400S (mostly set flat, I use no effects)
I owned two of these cabs for about a year.
I play mainly fusion/jazz and pop/rock, and used them weekly at band rehearsals, monthly at gigs in clubs and bars and daily rehersing at home.
The cabs did not handle a B-string very well, especially at higher volumes, there are lots of other cabs that can handle B strings much better.
It farts out pretty quickly, and I had trouble hearing myself in a band. I did like the clean sound, but the extreme (SWR-)high-mid bump began to annoy me after a while.
The tweeter can be noisy at high volumes (hiss), I had the hf attenuator set at about 4/10.
This is not a very good stand alone cab, one cab was never enough, except for rehersing at home.
I liked the portability though.
Reliability
:
7
I had no issues with it, I think it is reliable.
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
No experience with that
Overall Rating
:
5
I sold them and got a Tech Soundsystems ND-210XT. It replaced 2(!) Goliath Jr.'s and I never look back. I can now hear myself better in a band situation, the ND-210XT is lighter (18kg) and has much better low end response. I propably will not buy SWR speakers again...
SWR used to be HOT in the 90's, they were the first to make high quality products with a HIFI sound. Their product-development did not do much more than changing the appearance of their products. And I think that other (new) companies became better than SWR, like Epifani, MarkBass, Glockenklang, Tecamp, EBS.
I would not recommend the cab to other bassplayers.
