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reload a yamaha 2x15 reflex cab

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Jjones32

Mar 8, 2007
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#1
So i picked up this 2x15 cab for free the speakers were blown up and the insulation had like a rats nest in it, but i cleaned it out. I need to put two new speakers in it now.
what would you guys recommend. I have a 300 watt fender bxr head from like the 80s, and i play mostly straight up rock, with some funkiness thrown in from time to time

heres what the amp looks like (not my actual cab just one i found on the net looks the same)
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#2
Tough to tell what the tuning is, but I'd roll with a pair of these: (at this price, no reason to settle for less):
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Your amp doesn't need quite that much speaker, but it's just so frigging cheap for such a great speaker (133.99) that I wouldn't pass it up :)
 
#6
The 3015s will outperform the Carvins on a 4 to 1 power handling basis roughly (as they have around twice the xmax). For only 30 dollars more per driver, it's a gimme. Buy the Carvin drivers when they're on sale for 50 bucks in a year or so like all their drivers ;)

Some 15s will do fine up top; any 15 will be completely directional "beaming" by 1200hz, just about, and the Kappalite 3015 is good to around 2500hz on axis, 4khz at the utmost. Plenty for most players, but some players will want a nice horn around 2khz - 2.5khz which is a great idea IMHO.
 
#7
You guys do alot of talking, for people who haven't tried these Carvin neos. I have both in my cabs. The Carvin neos are nothing to sneeze at. They perform just fine. Just because all the number crunchers don't have all the numbers to play with, doesn't mean these drivers don't perform well. Buy some, and try them. I tried them all, and like them all. Try pulling the pencils out of your ears for a change, and try listening to them once. You might just like them.
 
#8
joegeezer said:
You guys do alot of talking, for people who haven't tried these Carvin neos. I have both in my cabs. The Carvin neos are nothing to sneese at. They perform just fine. Just because all the number crunchers don't have all the numbers to play with, doesn't mean these drivers don't perform well. Buy some, and try them. I tried them all, and like them all. Try pulling the pencils out of your ears for a change, and try listening to them once. You might just like them.
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Life and Carvin drivers are like a box of chocolates.
PS Solid Brand allegance is one thing and loyalty is much to be admired
but from a pure design/performance point of view don"t you think a Honda CR 500 might be a better place to start than an electroglide. Just a thought.
No pencils in my ears and my engineering blinkers are also very much off. :ninja:
 
#9
joegeezer said:
You guys do alot of talking, for people who haven't tried these Carvin neos. I have both in my cabs. The Carvin neos are nothing to sneese at. They perform just fine. Just because all the number crunchers don't have all the numbers to play with, doesn't mean these drivers don't perform well. Buy some, and try them. I tried them all, and like them all. Try pulling the pencils out of your ears for a change, and try listening to them once. You might just like them.
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That's one way to look at it. OTOH if I see that the rated highway mileage for a car is 20 MPG and it has a 20 gallon tank I'm not going to buy said car with the expectation that it's going to get me 800 miles on a tank. Of course, your mileage may vary. :D
BTW, Carvin has finally gotten around to posting specs on most of their neos, and the fifteen is displacement limited to one- quarter the power capacity of the 3015.
 
#10
Man they are both eminence speaker's with the one rpsand's recomended the step above the stamped frame,Carvin are eminence speaker's that is most likely the delta version only in neo instead and the better is the kappa,witch one would you want for that price?
 
#11
Hankthecrank said:
Man they are both eminence speaker's with the one rpsand's recomended the step above the stamped frame,Carvin are eminence speaker's that is most likely the delta version only in neo instead and the better is the kappa,witch one would you want for that price?
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Carvin no longer sells rebadged Eminence neos.
 
#12
You might want to take careful measurements to calculate the volume of the enclosure and it's ports. Contact Eminence customer service and ask for suggestions for an appropriate replacement speaker based on the enclosure design and the type of tone your going for. Eminence CS is very helpful.
 
#13
Bassmec said:
Life and Carvin drivers are like a box of chocolates.
PS Solid Brand allegance is one thing and loyalty is much to be admired
but from a pure design/performance point of view don"t you think a Honda CR 500 might be a better place to start than an electroglide. Just a thought.
No pencils in my ears and my engineering blinkers are also very much off. :ninja:
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The last bike I hillclimbed, was a Honda CR500 frame with an Electroglide 1340 Evolution engine in it with 100 horsepower at the rear tire. I doubt you could ever ride it with those pencils in your ears.
 
#14
joegeezer said:
The last bike I hillclimbed, was a Honda CR500 frame with an Electroglide 1340 Evolution engine in it with 100 horsepower at the rear tire. I doubt you could ever ride it with those pencils in your ears.
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The chap who took this years title in Open Exhibition class (701cc – whatever your imagination can build) used his imagination a honda 954cc engine in a modified honda frame with a little nitrous oxide to get 240 hp.:ninja:
 
#17
Bassmec said:
The chap who took this years title in Open Exhibition class (701cc – whatever your imagination can build) used his imagination a honda 954cc engine in a modified honda frame with a little nitrous oxide to get 240 hp.:ninja:
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In England, you guys hillclimb up a tar road. Over here it's a 75 degree dirt hill with jumps on the way up. Not even close to the same type of competition. I see that some are now doing it in France and Norway however. I doubt however that it was ever you at the throttle. We also ran a 750 Triumph that had more horsepower than the Triumph factory ever got out of them. That bike was national champ bike in the 750 class multiple times. I ran a Sportster powered hillclimber to National #8 in 1986, and my last Harley was National #9, in 1994, and a 750 Kawi triple, I also built was National # 1 bike in 1982. How many times have you finished National number anything, at anything???
 
#18
joegeezer said:
In England, you guys hillclimb up a tar road. Over here it's a 75 degree dirt hill with jumps on the way up. Not even close to the same type of competition. I see that some are now doing it in France and Norway however. I doubt however that it was ever you at the throttle. We also ran a 750 Triumph that had more horsepower than the Triumph factory ever got out of them. That bike was national champ bike in the 750 class multiple times. I ran a Sportster powered hillclimber to National #8 in 1986, and my last Harley was National #9, in 1994, and a 750 Kawi triple, I also built was National # 1 bike in 1982. How many times have you finished National number anything, at anything???
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Well done 1985 was my best Team result.
I started as a schoolboy scrambler and came third one year in the eastern center UK motocross championship, the next year I fractured my pelvis, my father was a power boat racer in cruiser class and my uncle Robin raced aircraft:
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Due to the british side of my family having a very strong Naval background, my great uncle:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Harwood
And my father having been a RNVR Leftenant Commander.
I went to college to become a marine engineer, I eventually didn't fancy the Navy and I was already engineering in power boat racing, mostly in the class OZ, my drivers where initally Tom Percival (Sadly Killed) and later Bob Spaulding for Team Styvasent and then Team Carlesberg, when the championship changed to Formula One:
http://www.f1boat.com/history/f1history.html
Sadly Bob was also very very badly injured at the Spanish Grand Prix
and forced to retire from the sport.
Its a lot safer now I understand.
I continued in offshore with team Carlesburg and Lancing Marine and then took the Blue Ribbon with Virgin Atlantic Challenger 11 for Brooke Marine.
And then I built this studio.:D
 
#19
If you can, re-coning the stock speakers is always a good choice. That way you know you have something that was designed with that particular box in mind.
 
#20
Chef said:
If you can, re-coning the stock speakers is always a good choice. That way you know you have something that was designed with that particular box in mind.
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I wouldn't do a recone unless you specifically want exactly the same tone as the original. No driver produced before the 3015 and 3015LF offers the same advantages of weight and output capability, and they are specifically designed to work well in smaller cabs, far better in most cases than the original drivers were. For instance, many OEM fifteens are based on the Eminence Gamma 15, and that driver works best in 4.4 cubic feet. The 3015 is ideal in only 2.8 cubic feet, yet has six times the displacement limited power capacity of the Gamma 15.
 

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