Ampeg Confusion

[Bass 45]

The cab sounds good but it is only for thrashing/learning on and cannot turn it up too loud in my basement. I am running it through an Ashdown Mag 300 paired with Ashdown Mag 210 cab. I bought it from soundland in Germany and it was the last (showroom) model so it could have been there for years? Another strange thing is that the dimensions of the cab are different from the Ampeg site? Thought life would be easy but maybe bought some North Korean/Eygyption/Eskimo import! And the final thing is that the actual speaker does not look as beefy as the one posted above.

I am curious to see your cab/speaker. Are you able to post photos? Thanks

 

[hover]

Odds are Eminence makes the speakers for SLM. They make a lot of speakers that re-branded with another company's name.

Yeah, but it's because it's an OEM spec driver, unique to Ampeg, it's not "rebranded" per se.

 

[beans-on-toast]

If you look at recently manufactured Loud products such as the SVT-VR, the circuit board say SLM Electronics on them. They've got to be newly manufactured boards yet they still have the old print masks from years ago.

Changing specifications or a product costs money, it is a lot cheaper for Loud to leave it as is. Maybe this is the same case for the speaker. It still says SLM but it is a newly manufactured product.

 

[Jerrold Tiers]

Bottom line is that NO that is not an Eminence speaker.

It is an asian-made speaker which was of indifferent quality, not extra-specially bad, but by no means particularly good.