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Stoner/Doom Bassist Thread Part 6

#302
Balog said:
For the same reason one might encounter difficulty in pulling an engine from one car and trying to slap it into another?
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Way different. A speaker has 2 wires and some screws. A 15 inch speaker from 1970 is roughly the same in size as a new 15 inch speaker barring some small size differences. Switching out speakers in cabs is very simple and any sound difference you encounter on some engineering spec sheet most likely wont be heard by anyone aside from super technical guys. I changed 8 15s in two old acoustic cabs, they sound unreal. Im sure theres some sin graph that says im wrong but my ears are what counts.
 
#305
I got a promising email today...he's a guitarist, he must have gotten the joke of my ad, sounds like a cool guy, already facebook stalked him, he doesn't look like a creep...hopefully we can get a jam session set up. I'll keep you guys updated
 
#306
Lazarus.Bird said:
Yeah but he said something like the cab can take 200-300 watt. My amp does 830w @ 4 ohms on one leg.
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my 4x15s are 1200 watts each. you could always get an old acoustic 215 box, sell the speakers, and get like neo 500 watts speakers and put them in the box. youd have a 1000 watt cab that doesnt weigh a whole ton with ridiculous neo speakers in it.

dont know how you beat that.
 
#311
Lazarus.Bird said:
Emailed the guy with the Kustom and asked what speakers were in it. He said one was square and one was round. Well buddy if you don't want to ****ing sell it I don't want to buy it!
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Lol there was a 600 dollar speaker in the first 408 i got. That was a nice surprise. Sometimes its nice when people are clueless about speakers in old cabs.
 
#312
JoeVictim said:
I might know someone...;)

This logic doesn't always work. My Peavey 2-15" cab sounded very mid/mid-high with my Kappalites. The speakers didn't come alive until I put them into the Yamaha. Sometimes when you put any speaker in any old box, it sounds crummy. IME, YMMV.
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Pish, sounds like some of that sciencey stuff only nerds care about. All speakers are basically the same, just throw it in there and no one can here the difference. I know, 'cause the internets said so. ;)
 
#315
beebass, i disagree that boxes are boxes and speakers are speakers. i do think that there are people who make way too much of it, but i notice differences. i know someone who through these super expensive, high wattage speakers in a bass cab and they sounded like turds. one of my swr 210's had more volume. though the speakers were rated for stupid amounts of wattage, they were meant for near field monitors.

i have two ampeg 810's that are identical in construction. one has old magnavox speakers and the other has early 90's eminence speakers. both are useable, but the
older cab clearly sounds considerably better.

laz, the dude may well have been being a prick, but a cab that old may have a speaker w/ a square magnet, and another with a round magnet.

i blew a kappalite in a 215. it was in a schroeder cab. it was a really nice cab, but i eventually decided it was too little modern sounding for me and traded it for my 2nd 810.
 

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