Speakers, anyone?

[eottjake]

I'm going to make my cabinet my new project for the summer. It's a Hartke VX215...it does it's job.
I've had it for a little too long now and it's been through hell and back. The carpet is tattered, a handle got ripped off, and the speakers....need an upgrade.

Here's the plan--

drill holes on bottom and add casters. no-brainer. i travel as the bassist for a PR group for my college. im tired of hauling that thing.

rip off the carpet and coat the cabinet in herculiner.

annnnnnd replace the speakers.


i'm obviously looking at the mains before the tweeter....if i even look at that at all.

my amp is an eden e300t ("300" watts at 4 ohm) and i need to give it something worthy of the valves inside.

Ive been looking up some possiblities--one that caught my eye is the eminence kappalite 3015 neo. it's rated at 450 watts 8 ohm and with the two of them...i think it'd be sweet. not to mention the xmax is 9.6mm

With that said....looking on other sites has led me to confusion. i've seen it recommended for bass cabs and for pa cabs.
will it make a difference? are they usable?
any suggestions for replacements?

[JimmyM]

several folks have popping 3015's into their old cabs with mixed results. some love it, some don't. i'm using delta 15a's in my b-15 cabs, which aren't the lowest speakers on the market, nor are they particularly supposed to be bass speakers (i think they advertise them as pa speakers), but they sound just like the old cts b-15 speakers of the 60's so it's all good to me.

you could also go vintage. a lot of folks love their old jbl's and altecs, but you won't get a gazillion watts of power handling. should be plenty to run an old trace tube amp, though.

not as easy to pick out replacements as it used to be, but watch the speaker threads on here and get some opinions. and i'm sure others more knowledgeable than me will chime in with some stuff as well. it gets more confusing before it gets clear, though.

[DukeLeJeune]

Originally Posted by eottjake

Ive been looking up some possiblities--one that caught my eye is the eminence kappalite 3015 neo. it's rated at 450 watts 8 ohm and with the two of them...i think it'd be sweet. not to mention the xmax is 9.6mm

The 3015LF has an x-max of 9.6 mm and doesn't go up very high. Efficiency is medium at best.

The 3015 (non-LF) has an x-max of 5.9 mm and has smoother and more extended midrange than the 3015LF. Efficiency is fairly high.

The 3015 is the better choice for smaller enclosures and/or stand-alone (no midrange or tweeter), or for cases where you have a conventional tweeter on top which doesn't reach well down into the mids.

The 3015LF is a beast, but has a nasty peak at about 1.3 kHz and really needs a crossover and a midrange - most tweeters don't reach low enough, resulting in a hole and loss of overtones.

I think the 3015 is probably the better choice for your situation.