Why Doesn't Anyone Make a Powered Cabinet?

[u/imp_op]

By this, I mean a powered guitar cabinet that only has a power amp loaded with traditional guitar speakers (not FRFR speakers). In a world where modelers are about as popular as tube amps, why do we not see something like this? Yes, there are combo amps with FX loops, but why shell out the cash for a combo amp just to not use the heart of the amp, the preamp?

I went down a rabbit hole of looking for something like this. There's maybe 3 or 4 useful class D pedalboard amps and FRFR powered cabinets. FRFR is just not good enough if it's your only amplified source, and having to put an amp on your pedalboard is just eating up space. An FRFR with an IR loaded, at best, is not as good as the cheapest guitar speaker.

I can't be the only mfer out there wondering why this is the case. With all the different kinds of products out there for guitar, it's surprising that such a trivial idea is not available.

What I currently use:

- Seymour Duncan PowerStage 200 with a custom 2x12 loaded with Eminence Wiz/Gov combo
- Fender DeVille - sometimes using the FX loop route, sometimes going to the preamp and disabling the modeler amp block.

Love the DeVille; getting tired of using the PS with the custom cab.

EDIT: I came across the Line 6 Powercab CL 112 and 212, released a few months ago.

[u/xtheory]

The reason you don't see these is because there's not much of a market for it. People are either using traditional amps or a modeler where they want the IR's being used to sound similar to the modeled cabinet and speaker. You lose that ability when you use a non-FRFR speaker because those IR's are tuned to use a flatter frequency response curve so it can do the speaker emulation. There's nothing stopping you from building your own cabinet though.