Speaker/cab sugestions please

[Lew]

Alreet, just picked up a VHT/Fryette CL100EQ head (super dry and articulate and tighter than a nuns arse).

Only cab I have is my trusty MJW 2x12 with mid 70s greenbacks. Great cab but not really appropriate for this head and winding the volume up will blow the speakers out of the cab and in to tomorrow. Easiest option would to be to replace the speakers in it but I don't really want to do that as it does what it does excellently.

Need something high-powered that's not gonna break up with good bass response(NOT MUSHY!). The VHT is aggressively voiced in the mids. I've been doing some googling and the general consensus is the best speakers are the Eminence P50's exclusive to the VHT cab but I'm not keen on spending 800 quid on a speaker cab (or even half that to be honest).

I'm super clueless about speakers so any help would be appreciated.  8)

[Pete24v]

EV12L(s) fired mine up in an old cab while awaiting my MJW cab, sound great with every amp i've tried

[th3sku11]

What about a 4x10? The celestion vintage g10 is a surprisingly punchy/weighty speaker - being only 10" radius they don't distort too easily. I love mine!

[Stevepage]

I strongly suggest my Randall 4 x 12 that I'm trying to shift  8)

[d1dsj]

What about a 4x10? The celestion vintage g10 is a surprisingly punchy/weighty speaker - being only 10" radius they don't distort too easily. I love mine!

Good call... there is a beautiful 4 x 10 mahogany cab for sale on this very forum! Oh... ugh.... it's mine.... :?

Seriously it's an awesome sounding cab, when i got it it replaced a Mesa 4 x 12 and Marshall Hendrix R.I 4 x 12. You're more than welcome to try it Lew?

[blue]

i would love to buy your mongotone too, but i'm struggling to justify it!  i'm comforting myself with the thought that you probably wouldn't post it over to northern ireland anyway :)

oh, and Lew, congrats on the VHT

[th3sku11]

I have one similar to d1dsj's and I can vouch for them being good :) And his is stunning to boot!

[th3sku11]

i would love to buy your mongotone too, but i'm struggling to justify it!  i'm comforting myself with the thought that you probably wouldn't post it over to northern ireland anyway :)

oh, and Lew, congrats on the VHT

Yup, I'd love to buy it too. fortunately its not 16 Ohms or I'd be in trouble! :)

[Lew]

Ta for the replies - I'll give em a proper read and do some research. I don't suppose it matters if the speakers are 10" or 12" if they do the job. Ta Don and Steve, I'm sure they're good but out of my price range I'm afraid - I only really need a 2xwhatever. T'is already a pain in the ass lugging a 2x12 around don't fancy 4 speakers (plus I'm being a tight ass)!

[d1dsj]

i would love to buy your mongotone too, but i'm struggling to justify it!  i'm comforting myself with the thought that you probably wouldn't post it over to northern ireland anyway :)

oh, and Lew, congrats on the VHT

Yeah I would mate!  :lol:

[Roobubba]

Celestion G12K-100s. Great, cheap but top quality speakers with fantastic voicing, both clean and distorted. The grind under distortion is just superb.
2 of those in a 2x12, or 4 in a half stack and you're done. :)

Roo

[Lew]

I think that's what Martin originally put in the 2x12.

Ah, edit - it was these http://professional.celestion.com/guitar/products/originals/detail.asp?ID=16

[tomjackson]

Eminence Wizards?

[MDV]

I'd get swamp thangs.

Wait, I did get swampt thangs.

150W, HUGE low end, pretty tight (but not massively so, but then VHTs have a tight sound, on the whole), smooth top end, but not muddy; more that they lack papery brittleness. Quite natural and organic sounding, massive 'thunk' and grind in the 100 to 150hz, make V30s and K100s sound like toys (though I have them mixed with V30s, which keep a bit of the sharper top end in them and are a bit tighter for razor-blade metal riffs).

[Lew]

Interesting, they're not badly priced either.