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Celestion Guitar Speakers / Celestion G12 Alnico 100th Anniversary 30 16 ohm
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Celestion speakers started in Hampton Wick England in 1924. Celestion Radio Company and Celestion Limited were formed in 1927, and two years later the company moved across the Thames to Kingston. The company grew rapidly, but was hit by the depression.
Wartime restrictions forced Celestion and the nearby British Rola Company to produce loudspeakers to the same specification; British Rola bought Celestion in 1947 and formed Rola Celestion and moved production to Thames Ditton in 1949. Rola Celestion was bought by Truvox - a manufacturer of public address systems in 1949.
Celestion developed the first dedicated guitar speaker T0530, what came to be known as the Alnico Blue and with its marriage with the Vox AC15 and AC30 a legend was born. In 1968 the company started production in Ipswich, moving all production there by 1975. Celestion developed the speakers that then powered the Blues and Rock Revolution in the late 1960's and early 1970's with speakers such as the G12M Green Back and G12H. Over recent years Celestion have remade some of their finest and most sort after speakers.
Watford Valves have supplied speakers to the music industry for over 25 years and with the benefit of hindsight can honestly say that for guitar or bass Celestion's are the best speaker's money can buy.
To celebrate Celestion's 100th anniversary, Celestion have recreated the famous Alnico T652.Wartime restrictions forced Celestion and the nearby British Rola Company to produce loudspeakers to the same specification; British Rola bought Celestion in 1947 and formed Rola Celestion and moved production to Thames Ditton in 1949. Rola Celestion was bought by Truvox - a manufacturer of public address systems in 1949.
Celestion developed the first dedicated guitar speaker T0530, what came to be known as the Alnico Blue and with its marriage with the Vox AC15 and AC30 a legend was born. In 1968 the company started production in Ipswich, moving all production there by 1975. Celestion developed the speakers that then powered the Blues and Rock Revolution in the late 1960's and early 1970's with speakers such as the G12M Green Back and G12H. Over recent years Celestion have remade some of their finest and most sort after speakers.
Watford Valves have supplied speakers to the music industry for over 25 years and with the benefit of hindsight can honestly say that for guitar or bass Celestion's are the best speaker's money can buy.
The early G12 Alnico guitar speaker T652 defined British sound. This was speaker was used in all of the first Marshall speaker cabinets and combos made until around late 1965. Indeed according some music historians this was the speaker that was in the Bluesbreaker combo and give Clapton that famous tone on the Beano album.
Celestion have meticulously hand crafted this speaker in the UK. By using it own collection of early alnico speakers, the Celestion 100 is born of a painstaking research and development process and then replicating the production process and components to replicate the tone of these exquisite collector's items.
The Celestion 100 Anniversary produces the legendary T652 sonic sound with a beautifully traditionally rich and warm low-end and refined mids with sweet treble for a blistering Clapton style bite. 100 db sensitivity make this superbly responsive and a 30 watt rms handling make this the ideal speaker to reproduces incredibly rich and refined British sound
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