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I've not tried the Scumnico, but I have two M75s & two H75s in a 4x12 & they sound immense.
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I've only dealt with Jim as a customer & I couldn't say a bad word. I bought four speakers from him about eight years ago - we spoke on the phone & exchanged a few emails & he was a gent each time.
A couple of years later, I sought his advice on an old Marshall cab I was interested in buying here & he was very accommodating with his time.
& as I posted earlier, the speakers I bought are excellent & I've compared them to quite a few vintage ones, too.
You might appreciate this @Bygone_Tones - got a T1234 G12H30 75hz from 1976 a couple of weeks ago, enjoying it so far - nice balance of frequencies, some woodiness from cone breakup, somehow clear but not harsh up top.
Looking for a single alnico speaker for an AC30 is a bit of a minefield. Two broken in blues pretty much get you there - glassy, rich cleans and gradually moving through into compressed, fat midrange roar that isn't at all harsh. And because it's not harsh, you can open up the top end on the amp a bit to get clarity.
But, Blues are 15 watts. Golds have bigger low end that in my experience can get mushy if you let it, and, to my ears anyway, totally different mids/ high - they get their chime by being bright around 5K, whereas blues are lower down, like 2.5k, so golds can be fizzy and harsh with gain, unless you roll the tone cut up on the amp and then end up with a more mellow, choked sound.
The 90 watt Cream? I have no idea what it's like, just not enough reviews, but my suspicion is it'd be too stiff in an ac30 alone.
Then the alternatives - Red Fang... had one briefly, thought it was quite a lot flatter sounding than the blue at volume, Weber Blue Dog... much quieter speaker (surprised if the one I had was more than 95dB), much softer, easy to flub out, Fane Alnicos which sound like they'd be too mellow, Tayden, had a couple of Ace25s at one point but they seem to be out of business... then the Scumnico which on paper seems right - 98dB sensitivity, big low mids, based on old Celestion blue/silvers, treble sounds about right, and the clips sound good. But, way more expensive than all the rest in the UK.
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I've tried quite a few pre-Rola speakers myself - not as many as you, though, I'm sure - & I found there were variances in all of them - whether that was down to wear & tear in some of them, I couldn't say. The Scumbacks sounded excellent in comparison - very much from the same family, but without the age-related issues & with the bonus of higher wattage ratings.
The marketing claims are a bit over the top, but you could say the same for most manufacturers.
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What's the cream actually like to use?
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Plus, frankly, it's £70 cheaper than the scumback would be, even if I ordered from the place in germany. And the broad description of both (like a blue but with a bit more low end, slightly smoother and less speaker breakup/ compression) leads me to believe they're in a similar ballpark.
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