Open Box Celestion G10 Vintage 60W, 10" Guitar Speaker Level 1 8 Ohm

Had a baseman 410 project been working on all of my friends and Guitar center really helped me choose this and figure out what I needed. Highly recommend these speakers for any kind of project you're doing for Guitar as far as putting a amp together.

Was afraid a 10" wouldn't do the job. Wrong. Replaced the fender special design with this puppy in a super champ x2 combo. It totally handles my other mods to this amp. Clear, clean, crisp.

I used this to replace the stock speaker in a Marshal DSL5. It's much warmer; it takes some of the shrill tones the stock speaker propagates. I've also used this speaker in a Fender combo where a 10" was required. In fact, that amp chassis was in a combo with a 12" Vintage 30, and when moved to the combo with the 10" G10 Vintage, and it sounded very similar to my ears. It's obvious that a 10" will not have the same low end a 12" speaker will have, but unless you're really pushing the lows in your tone, they are very similar. If you're a fan of the Vintage 30, you'll dig the G10 Vintage too.

I have an amp that matched well with a Vintage 30, so when I moved the amp to a smaller combo cab (too small for a 12" speaker), it made sense to try the G10 Vintage. It really is a 10" version of the Vintage 30 to my ears. I didn't put it up against other 10" speakers because it sounded exactly how I wanted to; hence, no more tone chasing. If you like how a Vintage 30 sounds, odds are, you'll like the G10 Vintage.

I have spent most my life as a Jazz Guitar Performer, educator, and student. Certainly I have played in just about every musical situation but tonally leaned toward the Metheny, Joe Pass, Jim Hall, Wes Montgomery clean sounds and a driven sound that could best be described as Al Dimeola melting with Robben Ford but with much less gain or bass than either (a clear dynamic overdrive that is spongy on the highend and tight on the lowend. In 1999 I got a 66' Princeton Reverb that had a horrid Jensen in it and just lived in my closet. One night my Polytone died (imagine that) and I found a Re-coned original Vintage 10 and stuck it in the Princeton to play the gig. Immediately it displayed as much clean volume as the 100 watt polytone yet it was only 12 watts. It was more dynamic and the response was very even and needed nothing from the EQ of the amp (set it at High-4 Bass-4 Reveb-3 and volume 3-5). Almost 20 years later that is still my favorite sound and little has changed since the speaker really broke in (highest highs got a bit less immediate). Through the years I got a couple 2x10 vibroverbs and Deluxe Reverbs with 2x10 cabs and was always hesitant to spend so much on the new G10Vintage so I have tried the 1040 Celestion, the Eminence Ramrod, and Eminence Copperhead (I hate the copperhead - least even response I have ever heard from any speaker). The Ramrod was always close but a but less dynamic and the highs were always a bit quick to respond, still a good speaker. The 1040 Celestion is fine but not worth the trouble to change to. I finally bought a G10 vintage 2 months ago (Aug 2018) and paired it with Quilter Pro Block 200 head in a 1x10 open back cab. It is similar to the Princeton but - no maintenance, nearly weightless, more headroom, and better overall tone. The question is probably " is that the amp or the speaker " and the answer is that it is as much the G10 vintage as it is the amp. Both love each other

It's a good Celestion. 'Nuff said, IMO.