Recent content by vintagegroove

" This simply is 100% not the case. Sorry. I have dealt with car speakers and instrument speakers that have dropped just a tiny amount and rub the coil now. In fact, it's WAY more prevalent on stuff built after around early/mid 80s, and has more or less gotten worse with each year/era of...

Oh, and as another helpful hint... for anyone loading their cabs into a pickup truck, like one commenter stated, or loading them up and down stairs in their house, or on stages... and you're worried about damaging the tolex or carpet, if your cab didn't come with runner bars for gliding over...

So cabs of any kind are affected by all kinds of factors... here are all the ones I can think of off the top of my head. Made in China: Don't get them, cheap drivers, bad caps, bad glue, terrible workmanship. Every part of it is junk. Carpeted cabs: can fray and turn to crazy velcro...

So I fund this by google searching, and thankfully it led me here. I signed up and all. So I have an Ampeg (crate apparently) SVT 4 Pro, with channel B dead, I got it all apart, swapped a few small burnt up resistors, and tested it, and still nothing, then read this thread, and tested the...