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Rift Amplification
Brackley, Northamptonshire
www.riftamps.co.uk
What Princeton is it? If its the 68 Custom version the stock Celestion is not good. Put a WGS Veteran in it and you should get a significant improvement without needing a new baffle.
He's been running it very loud for the last year in stock form and it sounds so good now I wish I'd kept it!
May I ask: Did you find it a big improvement over the stock Celestion when played clean at “home” volumes?? Or was it only/mainly noticable at distorted gig volumes?
I have a 68 Custom that I run clean at home and at duo/trio jazz gigs, pretty quiet and again clean only. I am very satisfied with how the amp sounds with the stock speaker in these scenarios, but am wondering if it could be even better :-). Or does the Rajin Cajun only really come into its own with overdrive sounds?
For your uses, I'd save your money, the two speakers are actually quite similarly voiced, unless like me you want it to stay clean at higher volume.
I honestly think the Celestion is a good choice for that amp, it might be a budget choice, but it wasn't done without thought in my opinion.
The problem is that MDF (and particleboard) are *too* stiff for a guitar amp, even though they're ideal for hi-fi, studio monitors etc where you want the cabinet to be as acoustically dead as possible to stop unwanted resonances colouring the sound.
One of the reasons old Fender Tweed amps sound so lively and wonderful is because the baffle is very thin ply - and none too high quality either! - barely attached to the cabinet by only a few bolts, so the whole thing vibrates along with the speaker.
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