Celestion gold!

[goldtop0]

I must admit I am curious how a Gold would sound in my new Marshall JVM 1 X 12 combo?
The stock Celestion sounds good but I'm turning the treble down all the time [amp & guitar tone].

I have a Blue in my Clark Tweed deluxe clone and it is a mysterious speaker. Deep Bass, warm Hi's & Mids yet dry is the only way I can describe it?
Speaker swapping is expensive cause some dude is going to absolutely love it in this amp and you will hate it.
Just have to hear it for yourself ?

Other opinions help us or cost us !

Either you try or you don't.
The experience I've had is that the Gold has a browner(deeper woofier sound) sound than the Blue.
Give it a go.

 

[PaulLaRue]

I agree Goldtop. I saw a new high power handling Celestion, Red / 100 watts ?
But I don't want to hijack the OP thread.

 

[goldtop0]

There's also the Cream at 90w that I've not tried yet.........just don't have a need or an amp or cab for a 90w speaker at this time.

 

[garywright]

may be a silly question here ..but is there only one type of Celestion blue speaker thas been offered from Celestion ? ...I ask as I've seen some that appeared to be the typical 15watt blue but have sold cheaper having a VOX sticker rather than the standard sticker ...I'm sure these were pulled for a VOX amp but is there any construction differences ?

 

[Steve Craw]

Love my Gold!

 

[goldtop0]

may be a silly question here ..but is there only one type of Celestion blue speaker thas been offered from Celestion ? ...I ask as I've seen some that appeared to be the typical 15watt blue but have sold cheaper having a VOX sticker rather than the standard sticker ...I'm sure these were pulled for a VOX amp but is there any construction differences ?

I've tracked the Vox labelled speakers over time and I found that while there is the odd semi bargain they're not consistently cheaper I don't think over the Blue labelled ones which is the only Blue I know of from Celestion.
I'd suspect that they would be the same spec.

 

[garywright]

Thanks goldo ..I guess it may be as simple as someone wanting a 15watt alnico blue but preferring the standard Celestion blue sticker rather than the VOX (?)

 

[goldtop0]

Thanks goldo ..I guess it may be as simple as someone wanting a 15watt alnico blue but preferring the standard Celestion blue sticker rather than the VOX (?)

Most probably........hey if a Vox one comes up at bargain $$ I'd buy it if it were also stipulated as international shipment to NZ........they will all be 8 ohm though coming out of the amps.

 

[garywright]

8ohms would be what I need anyway ...fwiw, I wound up buying a gold off eBay about two weeks ago after Mark Bartel said there should be no problem with the baffle board having additional weight ...it's still in there and although I do like the sound in the lead mode it's kinda dark in the rhythm mode ..I haven't tried it with any fenders ..this was with my '63 335 ...actually I prefer the original stock Eminence that Mark had used over the gold on the rhythm side ..the never ending need to try something else has me looking for a deal on a blue now

 

[goldtop0]

Me too I want another Blue for a 1973X combo cab that I'll get eventually.
The search is never ending:lol................and enjoyable.

 

[garywright]

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[garywright]

a recent Celestion blue seller on eBay mentioned that he was given the VOX repro stickers when he purchased them new from North Coast Music ...here's a link..

http://www.voxshowroom.com/northcoast/shopping/

click on the VOX link then replacement speakers

 

[latestarter]

7 year old thread!!

I still use Golds, and I have a Cream sitting around doing nothing presently (although I have an idea for that one!).

I have to review my (much) earlier view on the Weber speakers. Although I still believe the Blue Dog and Silver Bell to be considerably inferior to what they're trying to mimic, the Weber AlNiCo Classic has very much impressed me inside my '73 Princeton.

Back to Golds. Break in time was a question way back. Hard to know for sure but my Tupelo is now 7.5 years old and the Gold in that is just perfect. I'm thinking somehow that it probably was good after the first 12 months of thrashing though! Chimey without being too bright. Great depth and growl. Even tone with volume from quiet to loud...this is important to me as I often have to play quiet gigs.

In short, it was worth the extra $ 65Amps charged me many times over.

 

[goldtop0]

a recent Celestion blue seller on eBay mentioned that he was given the VOX repro stickers when he purchased them new from North Coast Music ...here's a link..

http://www.voxshowroom.com/northcoast/shopping/

click on the VOX link then replacement speakers

Thanks for that.
I'm pretty sure that these guys are regular advertisers on the bay at that US$275 PRICE.

 

[57gold]

Golds are great!

Have a 2X12 with them and my Komet K60 and Limited loved them, also Alessandro B n'T and a 1966 JTM45 I have sound big and open with them. Great ALNICO tone with out the fear of blowing them with 50 watt amps.

For lower output amps, Blues are the thing. Have one in a 1959 Deluxe that sings and a 2X12 for the 1964 AC30...the classic combination!

Played my old SLO100, one of the last made by Mike before he had dealers, using the 2X12 and it made beautiful tone using the Warren Haynes approach. Lead channel, MV open and gain used as a volume control (so low gain versus the hair band sound). Great speakers.

 

[gsg]

Huge gold fan and user for many years...used both 10's and 12's exclusively...didn't like to mix them...I just loved them clean...was hard to find a dirt box that I liked with them but fuzzes and a Rat were pretty good...

Enter the Cream...took up where the gold left off clean and sounds way better with overdrive IME...

Since replaced the Golds with alnico creams...