What speakers do you never regret selling?

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Came across the recent thread about selling amps with no remorse, and thought it'd be interesting to ask the same but for speakers. For me, Celestion 70/80's. Got a pair in a combo amp from a trade, and got rid of those speakers as fast as I could. Gave them away, technically. I dislike them enough that before the trade I went on a whole speaker-preference self-discovery quest to find what, out of the cheaply available options on the used market, I liked best, just so that I could replace the 70/80's as soon as I got the amp. Yech.
 
I can’t wait to get rid of my Celestion G12Cs. I’m so disappointed with them.
 
Celestion pre-rola greenback 25’s. I never cared for them with the style of music I play.

That said, I like the 30 watt pre-rola version as well as early 70’s greenback 25’s.
 
I have a few cabs I'll never regret selling.
The last one was about a decade ago I joyfully ditched a peavey xxx cab.

The speakers were not bad, but the cab itself sucked imo. It was built flimsy, meaning it would make creaky sounds if you were to push on the top, let alone if you were to actually put much weight on it. Worse than that though was the terribly cut baffle and flimsy bracing. There were huge gaps around the baffle edges due to how un-squarely it was cut. The middle brace was not even firm against the cab back. I had to seal all the edges and corners, and then I placed a piece of dense foam at the end of the middle bracing. All that helped for sure, but I was glad to sell it cheap at that point.
 
70/80s

Eminence swamp thangs and governors

Almost all Jensens

EVs besides the 12L
 
Altec 417-8h. Very strong voice. Not for me. I now get how much of a role these played in Randy Rhoads tones and Santana stuff. Once you hear it's voice, you hear it all over those tones.

EV. All of them. I do not understand these for guitar other than sterile clean sounds and over effected 80's schlock. I've heard other people use them to good effect, but I've never gotten them to work for me.

I think it was the cab not the speakers, but I had a naylor 2x12 that was the worse sounding speaker cab I've ever heard by a very large margin. It was so honky and nasal. Amazingly constructed and just terrible sounding.
 
Eminence Governors
Celestion G12H 55hz
WGS ET-65
Scumback BM75’s
Celestion Redback
Celestion Creamback 75
 
A particularly spikey sounding quad of G12H-30 Anniversaries. Still annoying after 100 hrs of loud pounding. A friend has another set of these that sounds much better. Same basic tone without the excessively fizzy top end.
 
I’ll just say I’ve gotten a lot of fucking miles out of mesa v30s. I know they’re a standard sound and everyone has them but they are good at that sound. Particularly for metal. I have other speaks and mix and match but I’ll never get rid of those.
 
homespun said:
I can’t wait to get rid of my Celestion G12Cs. I’m so disappointed with them.
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Never will regret selling my little crate 212 loaded with 70/80s. They sounded fine at lower volume, but after that they didn't have much punch at all. I first assumed it was the speakers because I ordered a pair of brand new V30s(07) and they sounded and "felt" much much better, but then about a year later I decided to buy my first mesa cab, a stock recto 212, and that's when I realized that the crate cab itself sucked just as much as the 70/80s lol.
 
dave74 said:
I realized that the crate cab itself sucked just as much as the 70/80s lol.
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I had a similar experience, except with speakers I was pretty darn sure I liked in a cab that, as it turns out, I definitely don't. That cab is now a stack of scrap plywood. It was wild what a difference in sound there was between that and a better cab.
 
thegame said:
A particularly spikey sounding quad of G12H-30 Anniversaries. Still annoying after 100 hrs of loud pounding. A friend has another set of these that sounds much better. Same basic tone without the excessively fizzy top end.
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You didn't happen to grab the batch codes off the cones before selling, did you? And would your friend be able to provide the ones off his? The recent videos by "the other John Browne" where he shows that V30 cone batches seem to correlate with lack of excessive fizz comes to mind.
 
Probably V30s...
I have tried them some times...

Not for me...
 
7704A said:
You didn't happen to grab the batch codes off the cones before selling, did you? And would your friend be able to provide the ones off his? The recent videos by "the other John Browne" where he shows that V30 cone batches seem to correlate with lack of excessive fizz comes to mind.
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No, this was long ago before I knew of T codes, batch numbers or cone variations. I can say though that they were purchased new around the year 2000, if that helps. Unfortunately my friend would not be inclined to check that on his cab but he’s had it for probably 15 years now and it was a used Marshall JCM900 cab that happened to come with those speakers. So, all of them are fairly old by this point.
 
thegame said:
No, this was long ago before I knew of T codes, batch numbers or cone variations. I can say though that they were purchased new around the year 2000, if that helps. Unfortunately my friend would not be inclined to check that on his cab but he’s had it for probably 15 years now and it was a used Marshall JCM900 cab that happened to come with those speakers. So, all of them are fairly old by this point.
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Darn, ok. Sounds like the differences weren't connected to the recent V30 cone anomaly though, so that partially satiates my curiosity.
 
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