What kind of Peavey?

The earliest Peavey cabs had Eminence 15's with fairly small voice coils, and square magnet structures. This is 70-80's stuff.

By the 90's the cabs were using either Scorpions, which had aluminum frames with rounded-off corners; very distinctive from the front or BW's.

Black Widow's usually had a seperate Black Widow emblem on the front. BW's have cast frames, big voice coils and magnets.

I think they dropped Tolex around 1995 in favor of black carpet.

 

I had a very early Peavey 15. It was only about 12 inches deep. The speaker was towards the top and the slotted port flared to a horn shape on the bottom. Not much bottom end but it threw low mids pretty well as I recall. IMHO, the newer BX series ushered in an era where Peavey learned from (IMO) mistakes of the past. Up until the BX series, all of the Peavey cabinets that I encountered or owned had cabinets that were, honestly, too small for their drivers, which cut the bottom end response. The 115 mentioned above was one example, the original 1810 was another infamous one...the larger 1820 was an attempted fix, but the enclosure for the 18 was still too small. The D series twin 15 was a very nice cab and actually had nice lows. The BX and TX series heralded the arrival of the modern Peavey bass cabinets with prodigious low end...and they haven't looked back since.

Kim

 

That's the 115 model that came out right after my 'horn-loaded' cab.