Speaker talk

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Single coil wrote:No way - is that the old laney slant I used to have?
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Yes.

It does the business.

And stands up to atrocious treatment.

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JHorner wrote:Yes.

It does the business.

And stands up to atrocious treatment.

Starting to rust and needs another spray. Will probably go for black or grey.
Ugh awesome. Funny though I used hammerite hah. Matte black go
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JHorner wrote:
Single coil wrote:I like invaders :shifty:
I've become quite partial to them myself.
yeah I quite liked the ones I had in my laney quad..yes they are bright as shit but I prefer to dial out bright over trying to find bright. kind of wish I still had a couple to pair with my celestion 85's ... I think it would sound phenomenal
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Yip - if you have too much, you can make some go away.
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The speaker is the voice of the amp...........if an amp sounds half way good then put a speaker in that floats your boat and see if that does more for you.
A case in point being a Princeton Reverb 1x12 that I bought earlier this year, it came with a Cannabis Rex and sounded a tad mushy and not together sonically so I played around with various celestions that I have and finally ended up with an old 74 1772 in there that keeps everything purring really well with virtually no bottom end farting or flaping out at high volume.........I don't play at high volume usually but always test out amps to find their capabilities........same with speakers.
It's horses for courses, so if you've got spare speakers around the place try them out in your combos and cabs rather than settle for the stock item.
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Do speaker magnets get stronger or weaker with age?
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calling card wrote:Do speaker magnets get stronger or weaker with age?
Weaker, the Alnico magnets weaken faster, ceramic slower and the Neodymium slower still.
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Terexgeek wrote:
calling card wrote:Do speaker magnets get stronger or weaker with age?
Weaker, the Alnico magnets weaken faster, ceramic slower and the Neodymium slower still.



What's the life of an alnico then do you reckon?
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100’s of years unless you apply lots of heat, shock or external magnetic fields.
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That's what I thought too..........thanks.
Guys in the US talk about their old and new pickups and degaussing/re-magnetising them etc, those magnets are a lot lot smaller in size of course and I've had a few of them over the years, old T-Tops and PAFs from the '50s and '60s with no apparent lessening of performance that I can ascertain.
Got an old '54 Celestion 74 1772 that I've mentioned above and it's a brilliant speaker for a 65 year old.
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Has this been mentioned before? Celestion are doing a flat response speaker.

https://www.celestionplus.com/product/c ... nw5QbLxwV0
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Slowy wrote: To Danny, everyone is either a supplier, customer or a courier.

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I tried to fix that for you, but it really doesn't exist lol I'm usually the fixit fairy!
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Celestion (and many other companies) have been making a full range, coaxial dual driver for decades. This one is just marketed for guitar use. I suspect the performance will be pretty poor unless it's in a cabinet designed for FRFR use.

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