What year is my Boogie cab? Should I change the speakers?

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Beyond Black said:
Won’t know until you try. Look for a really old pair, or try a pair of the new and improved ones. Put them in the top row of your 4x12 and see if it improves the tone. If it does, you’re on to something. Get a piece of cardboard and cover the top row, then the bottom row, to compare them. Or just save the cash and follow Zens’s advice.
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Where do you get these new and improved V30's?
 
This is getting so ungodly overblown it’s insane…. Once again, the reality is speakers are a lottery. Some are good from the supposed “ good years” and some are bad, and vice versa with good years vs bad years. The “post 2006” thing is just being stupidly blown out of proportion these days. I am telling you, I can name dozens upon dozens upon dozens of records that many here would find to be very influential, that were done with a 2008 recto cab. It’s just severely overblown. If the cab sounds great, leave it as is. If you wanna go down the rabbit hole, buy speakers from multiple eras and just keep the ones you like. I’ve done this, and it’s a very interesting conquest. But don’t expect to just find some magical speaker based on a year. The speakers lack of consistency is more of what we are hearing here.
 
Can someone tell me the dates on these V30's:

11HR
24HS

Those are the ones in my Avatar vintage cab bought around 2006. Two of them were changed out at some point in the 2010's cause the originals were g12t75's, and I hate those speakers.
 
VESmedic said:
This is getting so ungodly overblown it’s insane…. Once again, the reality is speakers are a lottery. Some are good from the supposed “ good years” and some are bad, and vice versa with good years vs bad years. The “post 2006” thing is just being stupidly blown out of proportion these days. I am telling you, I can name dozens upon dozens upon dozens of records that many here would find to be very influential, that were done with a 2008 recto cab. It’s just severely overblown. If the cab sounds great, leave it as is. If you wanna go down the rabbit hole, buy speakers from multiple eras and just keep the ones you like. I’ve done this, and it’s a very interesting conquest. But don’t expect to just find some magical speaker based on a year. The speakers lack of consistency is more of what we are hearing here.
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What I plan on doing is keeping the best 2 speakers in my Avatar cab, and then changing 2 of the worse ones out for the new and improved V30's, hopefully making that cab sound freaking awesome! Not that it sounds bad as it is, but ya know, the tone chase. I'm keeping the recto cab as is.
 
If they sound good keep them. Being that they're from 2008 I'd imagine they've got quite a bit of mileage on them.

Speakers become sweeter sounding/less harsh with age because they loosen up over all the hours of play.

The best sounding V30's I ever played were beat to sh!t from all the people who played through them over the years. Hope this helps.
 
anomaly said:
Shipping and handling. That's why I don't just get a new cab. I live in a small hick town in the middle of nowhere so I have to order my gear. It's cheaper for me to just buy 4 new speakers, but I wonder if it's nessessary?? I'm basically just curious if this thing could sound better than it does currently?? It does sound good NOW, after many years of being played loud it seems to have smoothed out?? When I first got it though, it wasn't the most pleasant cab I've heard.

Anyone know the year of the cab by that serial # C2-61332 ?
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It's NOT nessessary.
 
Bossman415 said:
If they sound good keep them. Being that they're from 2008 I'd imagine they've got quite a bit of mileage on them.

Speakers become sweeter sounding/less harsh with age because they loosen up over all the hours of play.

The best sounding V30's I ever played were beat to sh!t from all the people who played through them over the years. Hope this helps.
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Depending on the climate they’ve spent their lives in, speakers are also affected by humidity or the lack thereof. I’d image being stored in a super dry desert like location in a room with direct sunlight beaming on them might dry out the cones and make them brittle if left like that for long enough.
 
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