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Replacing Ashdown Driver

#22
BassmanPaul said:
To me learning what you can about the "techy stuff" is as important as learning how to set up your instrument. The knowledge will save you thousands during the length of your career. You don't have to become an EE but being knowledgeable about how your gear works is a very good thing.

Left Caerphilly for here in 1973.
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Shwmae butty! You might remember the Double Diamond then? Not sure what happened to that but I can vouch the castle is still there - or at least it was when I took some long lost Aussie cousins there last summer. Caerphilly triva question; the intergalactically famous cafe opposite the castle is called......?
 
#25
billfitzmaurice said:
The standard Kappa 15 models as well as anything non-Neo. AFAIK the original driver is a Sica with very high Qts that couldn't be anything other than a boomy one-note wonder.
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Must be the same driver as in a guy I know's electric blue 180 combo. "boomy one-note wonder" describes it to a T. The amp sounded good routed to other cabs but that thing was boom to the point you could lose your sense of pitch sometimes. :)
 
#26
will33 said:
Must be the same driver as in a guy I know's electric blue 180 combo. "boomy one-note wonder" describes it to a T. The amp sounded good routed to other cabs but that thing was boom to the point you could lose your sense of pitch sometimes. :)
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I saw the specs on one that someone measured, the Qts was well over 1.0. I couldn't believe anyone using it. I'd peg the OEM price at fifteen bucks, so that might explain it. :rollno:
 
#27
IMO the smartest thing he could do would be modify the baffle to accept a 12. That would open him up to a wide variety of drivers in all different price ranges, all of which would sound better than what he has.

If he can't or won't do that, yank the amp out, stick it in a rack and buy a decent cab.

If somebody else wants to mess with this, go ahead. Net internal volume won't be more than about 2.4 cu.ft. I see too many flaws to tell anyone to spend money on any 15.
 
#28
Christ I should have dug my head in the sand and bought a crappy generic driver, now you've got me thinking about converting the amp into a head, and building my own cab.

I was considering splitting the combo up before, I hate having to lug it round as one piece, I'd rather do two trips
 

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