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Well one month ago I decided to buy a Celestion Gold - $279.00. My idea was to put it in a 1x12 cabinet and use it with my custom 30 watt amp I have. When the speaker arrived I had no cabinet ready for it so I installed it in my Boogie MKII simu-class. The Gold is rated at 50 watts so I played it with just 2 6L6's at class A (about 15 watts). I really liked the speaker, nice early break-up with chimey mids and decent bass. Well time to find a cabinet for it. I checked out the local guitar store and found a used Mesa boogie 1x12 lonestar cabinet. Brought the cab home installed the Celestion but the match did not work. The Lonestar cabinet was the large 27" cab and the sound was way too boomy and bassy. I took the cabinet back and decided to check out the local GC to see what they had. To my surprise they had a used MEsa Boogie 1x12 thiele cabinet clearanced price at $150. It was in great shape so I bought it on the spot. Brought it home and put in the Celestion, hooked it up to my 30 watt amp and the cabinet and speaker sounded pretty good. Was playing around to see what I could get out of it and POP-----no volume!!!!!! I blew the speaker!!!!
I call zzZounds where I bought the speaker and of course no warranty once installed. Ten minutes and now nothing. I will call Celestion Monday but I am not sure they will do anything.
So now to make a sad story at least a little better. I have had a Mesa Boogie EV 12" 200 watt speaker in my closet for years. Never really found the right use for it. I stuck in in the THiele cabinet- WOW. Exactly the opposite of what I was going for with the Celestion. One LOUD, TIGHT sound. That little cabinet could probably keep up with a 4x12.
Any one have experience with getting a one month old speaker replace/repaired?
Oh by the way the cabinet came with a Celestion 12M-70. Any feedback about this speaker. I only played it for 1 minute before removing it- was not impressed (probably why they hadn't sold the cabinet)
I call zzZounds where I bought the speaker and of course no warranty once installed. Ten minutes and now nothing. I will call Celestion Monday but I am not sure they will do anything.
So now to make a sad story at least a little better. I have had a Mesa Boogie EV 12" 200 watt speaker in my closet for years. Never really found the right use for it. I stuck in in the THiele cabinet- WOW. Exactly the opposite of what I was going for with the Celestion. One LOUD, TIGHT sound. That little cabinet could probably keep up with a 4x12.
Any one have experience with getting a one month old speaker replace/repaired?
Oh by the way the cabinet came with a Celestion 12M-70. Any feedback about this speaker. I only played it for 1 minute before removing it- was not impressed (probably why they hadn't sold the cabinet)
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