Celestion Vintage 30 VS Weber Alnico Silver Bell

Classic AlNiCo Marshall Tone. 12″, 40oz AlNiCo magnet, 1-3/4″ voice coil, ribbed cone.

Big low end, compressed high volume rock and roll tone, reminiscent of the classic Marshall stack tone.

As with all Weber speakers, the higher the power rating, the warmer and smoother the speaker. The 15 watt is aggressive, bright, with a complex and textured midrange and upper midrange bite. At the other end, the 100 watt is warm, smooth, yet is detailed and clear with very good definition. As with the Blue Dog, the 75 and 100 watt models use very high temperature voice coils that are the same weight and mass as the lower power voice coils. That assures good attack and a broad frequency response due to the low weight and mass of the voice coil assembly.

Back in 1986 a new breed of hard rock player was on the rise. To meet the demands of the players and their increasingly ‘hot-rodded’ amplifiers we set out to develop a modern guitar speaker capable of handling much more power and overdrive. To achieve this we coupled our ‘H’ magnet (the closest in performance to Alnico) with a new cone and voice coil employing contemporary materials.

Our most revealing speaker the Vintage 30 features enormously detailed and complex overtones a warm low-end a famously rich vocal mid-range and a beautifully detailed top-end. Used singly to reveal the complexities in hand- wired boutique amps or in quartets for a wonderfully intricate vintage 3D crunch the Vintage 30 sound has been captured on thousands of recordings from a diverse range of notable players including Slash Steve Stevens and Peter Frampton.