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Have any of you loaded a 4x12 cab with alnico celestions?
Just curious if anybody has and had good results.
Just curious if anybody has and had good results.
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I have a cab with Alnico Blues that sounds glorious. What I need to find are two 8 ohm blues for my AC30... I used to have a 2x12 with Alnico Golds, and it was indeed impressive. Another “should have kept that one” story.
Other than YouTube videos, I haven’t heard the Cream or Ruby Alnico speakers. I’d love to try them, though, and I’ll be interested to read replies to this thread about them.
I have read that the Ruby was best in amps that needed to be brightened up, so that does make sense! I hated to admit it, but other than that Avatar cab with the Golds, I never even tried the Celestion Alnico speakers until recently, and was very impressed with the Blues on several low-mid wattage amps like the Deluxe Reverb and, of course, the AC30TB. Damned expensive, but it is a uniquely identifiable sound!I would play the Cream on its own, depending on the amp, but the Ruby really needs a friend.
The Cream is my favorite all time speaker. Using it in a Forte 3D type cabinet works best of what I have tried.....Sort of a best of open and closed back thing. A single 1 x 12 sounds 3 feet tall and 5 feet wide. I will admit that I like even more two 1 x12s stacked, the lower one with an EVM-12. When I made a 2 x 12, I internally separated the two enclosures so they would each better maintain their own sound.
Original Fortes are hard to find. I "reverse engineered" to make my own. They also work great in a 2 x 10, 2 x 12 and even 1 x 15. I sorta got carried away.....