Anyone familiar with Seismic Audio cabinets?

[Artie]

I need to buy, or build, a 1x12 cab. I ran across this website, and these are surprisingly inexpensive. I don't think I could even build one this cheap. Anyone have experience with these products?

https://www.seismicaudiospeakers.co...orange-empty-guitar-cabinet-1x12-orange-wheat

 

[Adieu]

Iirc they sell em dirt cheap on amazon unloaded.

Probably an attempt to diversify for a furniture factory that makes IKEA copies... or an own brand of somebody's OEM supplier for cheap speaker cabs.

They are mass produced MDF side cabinets unless said otherwise, made somewhere in Asia, so they only spend several dollars on assembly per unit. And materials are pretty cheap.

If anything, it is how they manage to ship em that surprises me

 

[Artie]

They say they're 1/2" birch plywood on all sides. I'll have to do more research.

 

[skyydogg01]

I have a Luke 1x12. It is plywood, not MDF. The only critique I can give is that the speaker mounting t-posts are misaligned. I had to compromise a little to get my V30 to fit. Sounds great, looks great and holds up pretty well.

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[Securb]

I have been looking at them for a while. The designs look sharp. I was looking at a 1×12 for my Peavey Classic 20. I would also appreciate any hands-on experience that anyone has had with these cabs. I am most concerned about construction and cabinet noise

 

[ehdwuld]

Iirc they sell em dirt cheap on amazon unloaded.

Probably an attempt to diversify for a furniture factory that makes IKEA copies... or an own brand of somebody's OEM supplier for cheap speaker cabs.

They are mass produced MDF side cabinets unless said otherwise, made somewhere in Asia, so they only spend several dollars on assembly per unit. And materials are pretty cheap.

If anything, it is how they manage to ship em that surprises me

Captain Negative Misinformation

 

[Adieu]

Well maybe some are, some aren't

Their cheapo 4x12 is MDF sides ply baffle only

 

[devastone]

They look like Asian Avatar knockoffs. Not saying that is good or bad, just what it looks like.

 

[Securb]

I have a Luke 1x12. It is plywood, not MDF.

Nice to know that is the cab I am looking at. Still, MDF doesn't matter to me one of my best-sounding cabs is MDF.

 

[Artie]

Good quality hi-fi speakers are often high density MDF, where you don't want the cab to resonate. I'm not sure how that equates to guitar cabs, though.

 

[Securb]

Good quality hi-fi speakers are often high density MDF, where you don't want the cab to resonate. I'm not sure how that equates to guitar cabs, though.

I would imagine less cabinet resonance would deliver a purer speaker tone. I would not say one was better than the other just different flavors and different options.

 

[jeremy]

i wish they made a 2x10 guitar cab, im temped to get a 2x12 and make a new baffle

 

[skyydogg01]

i wish they made a 2x10 guitar cab, im temped to get a 2x12 and make a new baffle

I thought about the same thing but with the 1x12 cab. The 10s would have to be offset though to fit on the baffle.

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[Artie]

i wish they made a 2x10 guitar cab, im temped to get a 2x12 and make a new baffle

Hey Jeremy . . . they make several 2x10 "bass" cabinets. Doesn't it simply become a guitar cabinet if you install guitar speakers in it?

I just noticed, that for $170, they're "loaded." I suppose you could just ditch the preloaded speakers. Still not a bad price.

 

[jeremy]

yeah was looking for unloaded with certain cosmetics and ply. actually, i really want pine so ill probably just make them myself at some point as i have in the past but for short money and the fact that im lazy, it still could happen

 

[Artie]

. . . and the fact that im lazy, it still could happen

I'm a little in that same boat. I have the tools and the wood to do my own. It's doing the Tolex that concerns me. If I build my cab, it's got to be perfect, or there's no point.

 

[Securb]

Doesn't it simply become a guitar cabinet if you install guitar speakers in it?.

Yep. Bass cabs are typically deeper. I went the other direction and turned a guitar cab into a bass cab it sounds beautiful.

 

[Demanic]

Does a deeper cab give more low end?

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[jeremy]

it can to a certain point yes

I'm a little in that same boat. I have the tools and the wood to do my own. It's doing the Tolex that concerns me. If I build my cab, it's got to be perfect, or there's no point.

most of the finger jointed solid pine cabs ive built ive just lacquered. i did tweed one and tolex another but that was for sonic testing purposes. the uncovered cabs sound a little bit more lively/bright but thats not always a good thing and only what my ears told me

 

[Demanic]

If I were ever to build one from scratch, I'd want to cover it with whatever coating that Peavey put on their old PA cabs. It reminded me of sprayed on bed liner.

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