MESA/Boogie users - Fillmore 75

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Very good speaker!

From the MESA website - Fillmore™ FM-75 (a proprietary US made speaker) - currently only in use in our Recto®-Verb™ 25 Combo, the FM-75 is the culmination of a nine-year effort involving more than 500 custom prototypes with the intent of capturing the magic of our Golden Reference speakers that date back to the peak of the hand-built British era. Our FM-75 is a vintage voiced speaker providing slightly lower lows, more punch, and a more balanced, less-scooped mid-range. Best of all, the highs have a vocal quality with harmonics that don't "separate" from the fundamental tones, eliminating that thin mosquito buzz of today's offshore speakers in high-gain applications.

On how it compares to the MESA V30 -


Authorized Boogie wrote:
The FM75 has more low end, tighter low end, and is less scooped in the mids. Its got a much smoother top end that doesn't separate or fizz out with higher-gain settings. Thanks!


Yer sir, I agree!!! I own several Boogie Mark amps and this speaker is great, very much great.

Video with gain & high gain - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMypEBWPYGQ
 
I have one in my Mesa Thiele cab and my Mesa 1x12 widebody. Fantastic speaker. Prefer it over the v30.
 
I left the same response on the boogie board a couple years back when the Fillmore was announced, a Mesa rep was comparing the two and described the V30 as scooped. There literally isn't a less scooped speaker. I don't think he posted after that.
 
So how does it compare to a V30 or Creamback H75?
 
The Fillmore-75 is quite midrangy.

So is the V30, but personally, I find the V30 has an obnoxious buzzy thin quality that I hate. The fillmore doesn't have that.
It has more true midrange than a V30, but it's not the high-mid midrange that gives that icepick/buzzy obnoxious sound of V30s.
It gives you some more lows as well. I think it is a nice sounding speaker, especially like it for classic rock & blues, and especially if you like a lot of midrange. Think ZZ top. It wouldn't be my pick for Spanky country sounds (get a jensen), or if you like an ice-pick-like super trebly sound. I personally would take a Fillmore-75 over a Celestion V30 any day of the week for sound, and also for the extra 10 watts of power handling capacity. Still, I had mine and I sold it in favor of the C90.

Disclaimer - The Mesa branded Celestion V30 is one of my least favorite speakers of all time. I hate them, and I've tried dozens of speakers. Speakers I tend to like include the Celestion EVH, the Mesa Celestion C90, & Eminence Legends. I also tend to dislike alnico magnet speakers even though a lot of people really love them. I generally find them farty and buzzy. Not that any speakers discussed here are alnico...I'm just saying I don't like that sound. Speaker preference is very subjective...what one person likes, another won't.
 
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