V30 Follow Up: A Deep Dive on the "New" Celestion Vintage 30

Ahoi! I am back with more Vintage 30 content. If you haven't seen the probably biggest Vintage 30 shootout in the world, maybe check it out here first:    • World's BIGGEST Celestion Vintage 30 ...  

Anyway, I wasn't satisfied with the data I had on the "new" Vintage 30s (according to Glenn Fricker) from that big test. I wasn't comfortable drawing any definitive conclusions so I bought four more new Vintage 30s to increase the sample size. I received two from February 2022 and two from December 2022. I got results that I didn't expect.

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Gear I used for this: My 2009 Gibson SG Raw Power with a Seymour Duncan Black Winter in the bridge, a Two Notes Torpedo Live for DI tracking and reamping, an Audient ID44 mk II as an interface, a Victory Kraken VX amp for the sound samples, a KSR PA50 power amp for the sweeps, Room EQ Wizard, Reaper, bx Cleansweep pro, Nugen AB Assist and Voxengo Span Plus for the analysis.

Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
02:31 Test setup
03:39 Analysis description
06:21 Sound sample analysis
06:23 Comparing the sounds of the 2000 and 2019 references
07:28 Speaker #49 2021-A sound sample
08:40 Speaker #50 2021-B sound sample
09:38 Speaker Feb 2022-A sound sample
10:35 Speaker Feb 2022-B sound sample
11:15 Speaker Dec 2022-A sound sample
12:10 Speaker Dec 2022-B sound sample
12:56 Analysis of the REW graphs
15:54 My personal conclusions
18:48 What's next?