Celestion Vintage 10

Price paid: ??32.74. It's a 60 watt, 10 inch, ceramic speaker by celestion (made in china)
solid and heavy, it's a speaker, nothing more to say.

I bought the g10 vintage as a replacement speaker for my Epiphone Valve Special, which had a muddy and farty stock speaker that had to be replaced. I am using a Yamaha Pacifica, fitted with a dimarzio super distortion in the bridge and occasionaly a telecaster. Immediately after fitting the g10 there was a big inprovement in clarity especially when playing overdriven and distorted sounds, it sounded much better, more precise and defined but less so when playing cleaner sounds with the tele, that sounded fairly dull. The G10 only cost ??32 so it is definetely a good speaker for the money and provides enough quality distortion for most hard rock, if you play metal though you will need a pedal, and with a pedal, it sounds quite good. But for cleaner, chimier sounds you may want to try another speaker.

It is solidly built and heavy, looks and feels reliable.

I emailed Celestion (Dr Decibel) for advice on which speaker to buy, they returned my email in 48 hours, but I am British and they are based in ipswich, so don't know about other countries. They gave me a detailed response and I am happy with the g10.

I have been playing off and on for about 10 years, if it got stolen I would buy another, I do wish that it had a better, more chimey clean sound, as occasionaly I play smiths and stone roses songs, makes a big difference what guitar you use. It is great for Oasis songs. I compared it to the jensen c10q but opted for a British sound. For the money even if it was expensive it is a good speaker replacement for overdriven/crunchy sounds. Just not a clean speaker. Good value and sound.

60 WATTS IN A 10"--CELESTION G10 IS WHERE ITS AT! 9 RATING FOR BEING A BIT HEAVY.

AMAZING, THEY ONLY SEEM TO HAVE A FEW 10" OPTIONS BUT WITH THIS SPEAKER OUT THERE THEY DONT NEED MANY OPTIONS. COMBINED 2 OF THESE WITH 2 LOW WATTAGE ALNICOS IN A 4-10 AND YOU HAVE ALL THAT YOULL EVER NEED. ONLY ISSUE IS THEY MAY BE HEAVY ESPECIALLY WHEN USING MORE THEN 1.

BUILT LIKE CANNONS.

NOT SURE. NEVER NEED SUPPORT WITH THESE PUPPIES.

THE BEST AS I MENTIONED, IN A 4-10 COMBINED WITH 2 OF THESE AND 2 LOW WATTAGE ALNICOS. TONE TO THE BONE.

After trying a Peavey Delta Blues amp, and rejecting it I decided to give my Peavey Studio Pro 110 an upgrade. I fitted it with a Celestion G10 Vintage. Prefect physical fit.

My immediate impressions were very positive. I like playing clean and overdriven. In both cases I hear a big improvement to the tonal balance of the sound. Importantly there is no harshness, but this is not at the expense of clarity. For the price and the improvement I see, I can only give 10/10 !!

The speakes is constructed of heavey guage from, and looks solid as a rock. I can't really tell what the reliability is, but my expectation is for life :)

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Playing for 30 years. Yamaha strat/whammy & Gibson Les Paul Classic (Custom Shop)

Celestion G10 Vintage 80th Anniversary Special Edition. 10 inch loudspeaker. 60 watts.

I bought two of these as extension speakers for a keyboard amp that my son uses. Thought I'd try it with the old Deluxe Reverb I have. I was amazed! I've got an original 12" Vox Celestion Alnico in that amp and no other speaker has ever come close for me. I was expecting the 10" to tame the volume a bit, and sacrifice the tone a lot. But in fact it seemed just as loud and gave me a very similar tone. I've been playing guitar for 35 years and am an absolute freak when it comes to getting the best tone available. An amazing discovery, and at a great price too. I'll definitely be getting more of these.

Can't comment, only recently bought them.

Can't comment.

Best value for money guitar speaker available today.

60 watts , 10" of blues and rock bliss!

This is a 10" that wants to be a 12". Remarkable little speaker! I was amazed at how it responds to tube amps as well as a solid state. I run a Fender American Deluxe and the blues just rings wonderfully. I also Put a 2x10 through a high gain Bogner and an Ernie Ball with humbuckers and WHOA! This thing can handle some power. From clean Clapton to SRV to Slayer.... it suits my needs for gigging in two completely different bands.

No issues and after about 10 hours it warms up nicely. I've pumped 100 watts of tube through a 2x10 and no signs of wearing out yet after about 6 months of complete abuse.

Awesome! www.ddspeaker.com guided me through a few 10's on the market and decided that my needs would be met with this 10". Great people and a five year warranty! Can't beat it! I know about the other reviewer getting them for $60 each but I wasn't going to buy from Avater because they're an OEM speaker with only a 1 year warranty. Seems to me $35 extra ,and free shipping, for 4 additional years of piece of mind was a no brainer!

GET 'EM! Again, I can't stress how I bugged the heck out of www.ddspeaker.com for a few weeks and they stuck with me on my purchase!

This is a wonderfully made 10" speaker with 60 watt (officially) handling but like it's larger 12" siblings I think it could push over into 70 watts. This explains why the speakers could be pushed to very high volumes from a full tube pre and power amp that uses 6L6GC's
that I'm using and the volume is just simply solid and clean from the clean channel. It's really a cathartic type of clean, unbeleivable.
what makes it so wide ranging is obviously its frequency response of 80-5000hz at 97db. I have 2 of these speakers in a 2X10 Crate 60w Turbovalve, the generic Crate Eminence type 30w stockies were a poor match, the divorce ensued, they were promptly out of there and these Celestions in that combo with great tubes is pure 60 watt marital bliss!!

Sounds from these speakers are many and varied, a beautiful myriad of full of clean tones, warm, round yet very defined bass, crystalline mids and bell like highs and distortion and overdriven sounds from the gain channel are naturally superb because of the high db and Hz characteristics. It seemed to me that the speakers broke in almost immediately, well let's say it is about a quarter of the time it would taken a 12" vintage 30 or Classic Lead 80 to do the same thing as those cones are stiffer. Speaking of the Vintage 30, I have an extension cab with one that was also made by Crate to compliment the Turbovalve 6210; my personal revelation to match 60w 10" speakers to the combo was a result of seeing that Crate did not have a stock, no name speaker, and they had to resort to the 30w no-name 'made for Crate' Eminence type as I mentioned before; very poor quality as I mentioned before and brutally over-powered by the amp and no decent sound were to be had from them. Interestingly I deduced that Crate must have had some clue to what some might do because the four mounting screw holes needed for the vintage 10s were there, completely indepenent and untapped from the 6 or 7 screws and template pattern that held the 30 watters! Ok, back to the sounds right? that's what this category is all about. I would have to say for there size and magnet weight 27 oz (compared to the 50 oz (Yea!) of the Classic Lead and Vintage 30!) the 2 V10s make a massive sound as well as delicate sounds and together with the V30 in the extention cab, the blend is so beautifully cohesive and balanced in terms of pure output. The V30 has an extra 10 Hz of bass (a range of 70-5000 or so Hz at...100db!) it took a while for me to realize all of this because of the breaking in process of the V30 I mentioned before. I found that the combo right on top of the cab is the best set up and a monster cable studio 1000 3 foot speaker cable is a perfect connection to the combo speaker ext. jack.

I'm certain that these speakers will last for a long time. Solid hand crafting in the manufacturing process means just that for the high end Celestions.

heard great things about Celestions customer support and how they are eager to help those who ask for it in order understand just how each particular speaker works, breaks in etc...I will have to pay due compliments for their wonderful product reasonably priced and readily available; they have agreat site online too!

Buy them if you have a powerful 4X10, 2X10 or even a one speaker combo cab or ext. cab(s)that is connected to a fairly powerful amp stage, 50w and above, because the lower 20 to 35 watt speakers will fry and brutally distort when you don't want them to, especially with 6L6GCs pouring into them, so in that respect these speakers are almost 'unspeakably' indespensible items to have in ones arsenal of tube sound.

Found used on Ebay. Just recorded an album, looking for the best electric guitar tones. Tried Vox Blue, Vintage 30, Matchless, Greenback, old Jensens. Used condensers, ribbon, and dynamic mics, close and distance mics. Matchless, Bruno, Fender, Top Hat, THD, Carvin, Gibson amps.

Guess which speaker won?
A little Celeston Vintage 10 in a homemade pine cabinet! The guy who mastered our album, Brent Lambert of The Kitchen Mastering in Chapel Hill (Squirrel Nut Zippers, Gladhands, etc) commented on how good the electric guitars sounded. Sometimes simple is better.

Buy a used one and try it out for yourself!

This speaker likes SM57 mics, Class "A" amps, and single coil pickups!