GREAT deal on Eminence B810 Speakers for my SVT Cab!!!!!

blastjv · #1 01-14-2011, 11:38 AM

I was looking online and came across this link, selling the B810 speakers for $55 a piece, which is a great deal (usually $70 or more elsewhere):

http://www.electronicsplace.com/emin...er-32-ohm.html

With shipping, 8 of them would have come to just over $470....but that's not all!!!

I contacted Zzounds about a price match and I just ordered 8 from them for $453 with free shipping!!!!! (instead of $560 at normal prices)

I figure I'll be able to get a decent amount for the stock speakers, and end up having upgraded my cabinet to "Heritage" specs for only a couple hundred bucks.....

Pretty stoked!!!!!

-JV

JimmyM · #2 01-14-2011, 12:43 PM

nice! honestly, i wouldn't be at all surprised if that's what ampeg's using. i have no idea of knowing, but it sure seems coincidental that they came out with the heritage svt 810e and the b810 at the same time.

blastjv · #3 01-14-2011, 12:45 PM

Yeah, I guess anything is possible, but it does not make sense that they would have developed 2 different designs with obviously the same goal in mind..... (speakers that sound like beefed-up CTS's)

-JV

blastjv · #4 01-18-2011, 07:27 AM

SO,

Installed them last night (can't complain about that shipping...less than 3 days, including a Sunday).

So far they really seem to be doing what I had hoped, which was to give me some more, smoother, and more 'open' highs without any harshness. Mission Accomplished!!! What I DIDN'T expect was the very noticeable increase in the low end, which now sounds both fuller AND tighter. It seems to add a good amount of clean low end beneath my somewhat overdriven sound, and when I back off and play clean, it sounds SO huge!!!

These speakers also have a very significant difference in the amount the cones can move compared to the stock speakers (in my very scientific press "gently on the cones" test...).

One other thing I noted about the cabinet itself. Mine's a Vietnam 810AV. It is indeed made from very nice plywood (looks like the nice smooth 'finished' expensive stuff you can get at home depot, but the baffle (is that called the baffle...? the piece separating the chambers inside) is particle board. Only the 2 which separate the topmost and bottomost chambers from the middle two. The center one is Ply. Lots of batting secured inside.

Just thought I'd share...I expect to love them more and more as they settle in...and as I tweak EQ to adjust a bit more (already did a bit last night, but my ears were getting tired and so was I...

-JV

**sleepy_monkey** · #5 01-18-2011, 08:05 AM

Nice find. That place usually has great prices on speakers.....and finding them all at the same place is nice...rather than having to find a few at a time off eBay which is what I had to do on an Ampeg cab once.

beans-on-toast · #6 01-18-2011, 08:28 AM

Thanks for the review of the B810's. Sounds like just what I'm looking for.

Interesting that two of the shelves in the cab are particle board. Makes you wonder why they did that.

blastjv · #7 01-18-2011, 08:41 AM

I guess the middle one is ply because they consider it 'structural'???

-JV

beans-on-toast · #8 01-18-2011, 09:00 AM

I think that you're right, the middle shelf would be structural.

Maybe the particle board shelves are thinner and it allows them to position each group of four speakers vertically closer.

Wes Whitmore · #9 01-18-2011, 09:38 AM

I bet it has more to do with what wood they had available at the time of construction. I don't remember reading many posts about people opening up Vietnamese 810s to confirm though. My old Vietnamese 410HLF was all made out of .5" baltic birch ply. It weighed about 12 pounds less than the american made version, which was made with thicker OSB outside panels, particle board braces, and some B grade plywood for the baffle. Ampeg braces touch 4 sides of the cabinet. You have 3 of them (that also serve to separate the 10s in pairs if they are airtight chambers). They are glued in, and shouldn't ever get wet inside a sealed cab. You should be fine...
Wes

blastjv · #10 01-18-2011, 09:56 AM

I wasn't worried, just adding to the pool of data on these...

-JV

73jbass · #11 01-18-2011, 10:07 AM

The have BP102's for 51$ each. Sweet!

Wes Whitmore · #12 01-18-2011, 12:20 PM

So while you were in there, did you measure the airspace of the 810E cab? I wonder if it is truly 4x the internal airspace of the SVT210AV...

JimmyM · #13 01-18-2011, 12:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wes Whitmore

So while you were in there, did you measure the airspace of the 810E cab? I wonder if it is truly 4x the internal airspace of the SVT210AV...

the 210av has less airspace inside than an 810e compartment. it's shallower. but all it takes is a slight low end boost to bring it back up to snuff by comparison.

Wes Whitmore · #14 01-18-2011, 12:57 PM

If it does look to have less airspace, but I think it's not too far off. I just wanted verification. The slantback (both top and bottom) take up some airspace. I think the wood is thicker, and it has more bracing inside. The drivers aren't "off the shelf" same as what comes in the 810E, but there are a lot of people who have extensively tried both that say they sound about the same with a little bass boost. This is with 1 or 2 SVT210AVs. I haven't read any reports of someone running 4 of these compared to one 810E head-to-head and if the boost still needed to be there, but who cares, right (TomBowlus, waiting for you to ring in here...

. The 210AV can handle bass boost just fine.
Sorry to hijack your thread!
Wes