Another one of those speaker choice threads.

shady

Having had my Bassbreaker 007 head a wee while now I can definitely say the Hayden closed back 1x12 I'm using it with needs an upgrade.  The current 16ohm speaker is Hayden's own, but is a little too dark and I would like to restore the top end detail/chime/sparkle that I heard when I first tested the amp through my old JTM60's 3x10 cab. 

These cabs are apparently pre-drilled for Celestions, so having done a little research both here and across the web I have a possible shortlist of either the G12H-30 or Cream back Neo.  The Bassbreaker's own 1x12 comes with a V-Type so that was also on the radar and really affordable. 

It will be for loud home use only and cover a lot of bases, dirty and clean.  At some point I might want to link cabs together just for fucking about, so keeping it at 16ohms is preferable...if that's a factor in all this.

Opinions? Whad'ja reckon?

timmysoft

Creamback Neo, its my answer to every speaker question ever!

crunchman

Other speakers have the same screw holes as Celestion so you don't have to limit yourself to Celestion.  I had one amp that I used both Jensen and Celestion in, and another that at various points had Eminence, Celestion and Weber.  I now have an amp that came stock with a Celestion, and now has a WGS.

While you don't have to limit yourself to Celestion they do make very good speakers.  If you have the money, the Celestion Alnico Blue is probably the best all round guitar speaker on the planet.

If you don't want to spend the kind of money a Blue costs, you won't go wrong with a Creamback, but I'd definitely recommend looking at WGS as well.  They make some very good speakers.

shady

WGS ain't short of choice are they? Christ on a bike...the missus caught me looking at them last night and actually offered to buy me one...

...for Christmas...

rico

I put a Classic lead 80 in my JCM2000 combo and its awesome. Loud, clear and responsive. 

noisepolluter

Celestion G12H sounds great in a 1x12 (I've only tried the Anniversary - the Heritages are meant to be even better)

ICBM

G12H-75 Creamback - like a higher-powered, slightly chunkier version of the G12H-30. (The G12M-65 Creamback is like a higher-powered G12M-25 Greenback, and the Neo is very close to that but lighter.)

shady

I know looking at speaker demo's on YouTube isn't the best way to do this, but the WGS Reaper is now shortlisted. Not entirely sure on the CL80 though.

Voxman

rico said:

I put a Classic lead 80 in my JCM2000 combo and its awesome. Loud, clear and responsive. 

I also put a CL80 in my JCM200 DSL401 combo. Although much better than the stock speaker I wasn't sure about it originally but its grown on me and the more I play it, the more I like it.