timbo
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Several months ago I abandoned hauling my Marshall 1960A 4X12 lead cab around because it was a shear PITA. I bought a couple Marshall MC212 (2X12) cabs to use in running stereo for larger venues. I wound up just using one of them anyway because I found whenever we were playing a venue big enough to place both cabs on each side of the stage we had our soundman around anyway who would just mic them. So I decided here recently to just use one cab in stereo mode behind me as my monitor with an SM57 to each speaker running to house with each of the two channels panned left and right. That's been working great.
Anyway the speakers in the MC212's are proprietary to that cabinet. They are Marshall branded Celestions called a G12N-65 watt. They sounded fine to me but I wanted to upgrade to a more classic rock type speaker that could handle 50 watts per channel from my Carvin TS-100 power amp. The metal guys here will frown but I wound up getting the Celestion 65 watt V-30's. They flat out sound amazing and I can most definitely can say they provide a clarity that was never there before. The magnets on the V-30s are huge compared to the G12N's and the cones are different. I'm just amazed at how a speaker upgrade from what I thought was pretty good sounding stock went to amazing with the V-30s.
I upgraded the latest firmware over the weekend for the Ultra which is 6.0. There is a new feature in the amps advanced tab called "thump". (Sarg that's subliminal trick to get you to buy one!!) Even though I have a tube poweramp, when I dial up some thump now it really gives that "chunk" or "balls" to the sound more than ever before. And with the V-30s in the 2X12 cab it's just wicked. And having 50 watts per channel, especially with these speakers is more than enough.
Just thought I'd throw this out there in case someone was speaker shopping.
Anyway the speakers in the MC212's are proprietary to that cabinet. They are Marshall branded Celestions called a G12N-65 watt. They sounded fine to me but I wanted to upgrade to a more classic rock type speaker that could handle 50 watts per channel from my Carvin TS-100 power amp. The metal guys here will frown but I wound up getting the Celestion 65 watt V-30's. They flat out sound amazing and I can most definitely can say they provide a clarity that was never there before. The magnets on the V-30s are huge compared to the G12N's and the cones are different. I'm just amazed at how a speaker upgrade from what I thought was pretty good sounding stock went to amazing with the V-30s.
I upgraded the latest firmware over the weekend for the Ultra which is 6.0. There is a new feature in the amps advanced tab called "thump". (Sarg that's subliminal trick to get you to buy one!!) Even though I have a tube poweramp, when I dial up some thump now it really gives that "chunk" or "balls" to the sound more than ever before. And with the V-30s in the 2X12 cab it's just wicked. And having 50 watts per channel, especially with these speakers is more than enough.
Just thought I'd throw this out there in case someone was speaker shopping.
