Eminence Legend V12

Legend v12 x 4 8ohm versions.
Wired @ 4ohms/4ohms stereo. (Parallel per side)

Music Styles: Experimental, Metal, Abstract.

Guitars used:
Gibson Explorer - w/ DS-JB wired in parallel.
Ibanez RG 7421 - stock, set up to taste.

RIG:
Guitar --> Pod Pro --> mackie 1400i power amp. --> Modded marshall 1960a holding the speakers.

No matter what sound you make there its no doubt it will come out sound more musical with these speakers.

Clean can get very clean even with moderate to high output pickups.
They dont break up as fast as many other speakers, but they are PUSHED to hell with the way my rig is.

Brutal distortion? Words can't describe.

Speaker is built to better standards than most Celestions.

Havent dealt with them.

These speakers are very musical and in my opininion sound and perform alot better than Celstion G12T-75s and Vintage 30s.

Build quality is better than that of Celestion, and the price is WAY more than HALF of the price of simular Celestions. (G12T-75, v30s, etc)

Dont get me wrong I love celestions, but now since I steped into the World of Eminence there is no going back. (As long as they continue to keep their production in the states..)

It has 8 mounting holes its competition has only 4. It has very good power handling. It is made in the USA. Celestions are now made mostly in China and their prices keep going up.

I play rock, blues and this speaker is great for taming a bright system or pair it with another speaker like a Legend GB-12 or Greenback or Vintage 30. I really like the V12 paired up with the GB-12 in 2x12 setup or two of each in a 4x12. The V12 is very efficent and the power handling is amazing. It is good played clean or dirty

Eminence makes their stuff in the USA. They produce a great product for a great(low)price. I get mine through Avatar Speakers. Dave has great customer service and great prices.

Eminence has very good customer support when I have needed them. Most customer service problems are handles by the dealer and Avatar is simply the best on customer service.

A great speaker with great mids and lows. The highs are a little rolled off. If you need only one speaker and need more high end go for the GB-12. I really like both Eminence Legend models and love them paired in a 2x12 or 4x12 setup. The strengths of each compliment each other and fill in for what little weaknesses the other speaker has. A great speaker and a great value.

Features? It's a speaker. Handles 120 watts of power, has quicker than average cone break-up (British made cone) and is 8 ohms. The SPL is 100 (LOUD!)
If you buy it from Dave a t Avatar you'll get anither nice bunch of features...like...How about the excellent packing that Dave does, to ensure that your speaker arrives safely. How about a rock bottom price and quick shipment.
Other than that, it's a speaker that features the EXACT tone signature that Dave described to me in his emails. I love this speaker!

I bought a Peavey Bravo and retubed it with Sovtek EL 84H output tubes and 3 NOS AMERICAN MADE 12AX7 preamp tubes. The improvement was noticable, but not dramatic enough to give me the sound that I had bought this amp to produce for me. I use a BOSS ME 5 for boost and minimal effects, going into the front end of this amp and I needed an amp that could give me the sweet cleans of Vintage rock 'n roll & surf music styles all the way up to modern high-gain Santana / Van Halen tone and the stock speaker just couldn't cut it. I play single coils and humbucking pups through this amp and the stock speaker's bottom was flubbing out on me. The top end was way too fuzzy and piercing (like a celestion G12-75...waaaay piercing!) The mid-range was either pure honk or non-existent. Not good. I knew the EL 84 tone signature deserved a better voice than the stock speaker so I started researching a suitable substitute for the Bravo.
I started emailing Dave at Avatar about a suitable replacement . He gave me some suggestions in the Eminence line. I had bought some of the Eminence Vintage alnico speakers some years ago and I really liked them so I thought I'd try a ceramic magnet speaker from them. Why not? For the record, I'm not a huge fan of Celestion speakers. In my opinion, they sound just a little too harsh when playing clean.
Speaking of Celestions, I wanted a speaker with the smooth cone break-up characteristics of the Vintage 30 but with a better definition in the lows and a top-end cutoff that could give me an attenuation of the amp's high end. The Eminence V12 turned out to be perfect for this. The V12 tops out at around 4.5K, as opposed to 5.5 or 6K for Vintage 30 Celestions. The Bravo's clean channel "bright" switch has no noticable effect on the sound, now that the V12 is installed, reflecting the attenuated higher frequencies.
The cleans are rich and full...very fat without any harsh high end, and when the clean channel is cranked this speaker's break-up is smooth, creamy and articulate. Some folks may not like the fact that the top end is not as pronounced as the Celestion Vintage 30, but I love it. After a brief break-in period, this speaker sounds excellent playing clean or "cranked" on the clean channel.
The distortion channel is greatly improved, too. With the V12 installed, I can get a nice, open "overdrive" sound for blues and vintage rock, which the old stock speaker could never seem to get when the gain was set to lower levels. Cranking up the gain and volume takes this speaker into a well defined (no longer muddy!) midrange honk, great for bluesy rock. Cutting the channel's midrange tone pot back to about 50% delivers a very cool, modern rock tone. When the gain boost is engaged, this speaker flat out produces the high-gain tone of a hot rodded Marshall without any of the high end fuzz / fizz. When I think of high-gain tone...this is what I hear. It's a real treat to have it available in a nice 25 watt package, pushing a speaker like this with an SPL of 100. Yeah, it's plenty loud for gigging, too.
In all of these tone / distortion signatures that I mentioned, the definition (on single notes and especially on chords) is far superior to the original speaker. The cone breakup of this V12 is just sensational...very smooth and responsive to the amp's volume and tone controls.
For what I was looking for, this speaker has met or exceeded my expectations. It is loud, has plenty of well-defined bottom but not too much top-end and a cone breakup that yields a nice, smooth definition. I won't say that this peaker has the tone curve for everyone (try the GB12 if you need that high-end sizzle that the V12 is missing, for example) but I have to say that it's DEAD PERFECT for what I needed.

I don't know about Eminence but AVATAR is outstanding. I'll give Dave a solid 10!

Been playing since the 60s. I KNOW what I want to hear from my equipment. I buy amps, processors, tubes and guitars for specific tone characteristics. I don't have a whole lot of gear these days because I've done all the experimenting that I care to do. Now it's just two amps (Peavey tube Bravo and Peavey solid state Revolution) and a few guitars with a BOSS ME 5. I have found that speakers are at least 50% of my sound, so I buy good sounding ones for my amps and cabinets. I grew tired of the "Celestion sound" over the years. I'm not knocking it mind you...Celestions are great sounding speakers. It's just a preference of mine that I like a warmer tone.
I have a 2 12 with Eminence Alnicos in it, which sounds just great in conjunction with the two Peavey amps. I chose the V12 for the Bravo because I wanted the versatility of the amp to shine through a decent voice when using the amp as a single, stand-alone unit, or in the 2 12 configuration. The V12 did that for me, as I thought it would. I would buy it again. For the money, it's impossible to beat!

This thing has no features since it's only a speaker. 120Watts. 16ohms

I have a Marshall DSL100 running thru a 1960 Lead Cabinet. I run a Gibson V with EMG81s thru it..I play Anything Metal. The Cab originaly came with 4-Celestion G12T-75s. These speakers have the most insane crunch I have ever hear on my life! But the problem with them is that they lack bass..and are too bright. I always had the treble at 4 or less..and it was still hard to get the bass I wanted. I was going to get some Celestion G12h30s..but I heard good reviews about this speaker...so I bought 2 of them from avatarspeakers.com Dave is a great guy, yhe recommended these for adding lows. I installed the bottom of the 4x12 Cab. WOW!! They sound Great!! They are Very Mellow. They don't have much highs..but they have Very Strong Bass and a nice mids...very smooth. My sound is so much better now. I get Very Muscular Bass..specially when I palm mute! THey combination of the trebly Gt-12t's on top..and the Bassy V-12s Is working for me at the time. I can cut thru and Have a nice-rich Low end! IT's very good for Metal. It sounds good clean too! It's a hell of a deal for only $38.00 each. Great for a mellow-thick sound.

I Haven't had them for too long. But they seem to be holding out just fine. I don't expect them to fail anytime soon.

I haven't Dealt with the COmpany. BUt I heard they have very good support.

This speaker is very good for the Price! I wanted to get Celestion Vintage 30s...but these work just fine for me. I'm considering on getting some more speakers soon. I'll stick to Eminence..they offer very good products for unbeatable prices.

Just a simple 16 ohm, 12" guitar speaker. It handles all of my amps just fine.

These speakers are great for certain sounds. Some solid state Fender amps I have sound much better when they drive my Legend V12 cabs instead of the stock speaker. My CRATE VC50 Head also sounds fantastic through these speakers. (Looks like the prior reviewer here has one of these, too.) Fender tube amps shooting for that Fender vintage clean should look elsewhere. These speakers don't do that. I have compared these to Celestions (Greenbacks, Vintage 30s and Blue Alnicos), Eminence 122s and 125s and the Reverend Alltone. In the two applications I use them for, no other speaker has sounded better than my Legend V12.

These speakers are rated to handle 120 watts RMS. My tube head is 50 watts. The solid state amps I use are 90 watts. These speakers have never broken down and I really don't expect them to. I'm running them well within their tolerances.

I've e-mailed Eminence several times to ask questions about different speakers, their tonal qualities and some technical data. They have always gotten back to me in a day or less. Tough to beat!

A tremendous speaker for the money. No speaker can do it all - unless you are looking for that one trick pony. I have found two applications in which these speakers excel, and I'll be using them for what they do best. No need to spend $100 bucks on a Celestion when I am getting great tones out of these for half as much.

I have 4 of the Eminence Legend V12 12" guitar speakers. They are just over a year old. Mine are of the 16 ohm variety. These are also available in 8 ohm versions. They are rated to handle 120 watts. These are guitar speakers, so the features are pretty basic, but that is as it should be. I specifically purchased these speakers to try to tame the high frequency overkill on a pair of Fender solid state guitar amps I was using. They did that, but then I started experimenting with them to see what they could do when being used with better quality equipment - like tube amps.

I play mostly rhythm guitar. Our band plays lots of covers with a good portion of them being pop standards. We do some Police, U2, Oasis, the Clash, Blondie - lots of pop, punk/pop and Brit pop. I also like to play lots of 60s covers - anything from the Beatles to Cream and from Hendrix to the Turtles.

The scoop is that the Legend V12s are supposedly modeled after the Celestion Vintage 30s. I've had these over a year, used them plenty and I don't hear it. It just ain't there! To my ears, it is not a Vintage 30 clone in the least, and I am pretty familiar with the Vintage 30s. I have tried the Legend V12s and the Celestion Vintage 30s in a variety of amps including Fender Hot Rod Deluxes, Sunn T50 Combo, Sunn Model T head, Crate VC 50 Head, modified Fender Deluxe 112 plus solid state amp, Boogie Dual Rectifier and others. The Legend V12 is definitely not as good on the highs, as the technical specs pretty much suggest ( only 4.5khz high end). On the other hand, the Legend V12 is far superior to the Celestion Vintage 30s on the lows. The Legend V12s bring very nice bottom end to any multi-speaker cab. The trick is to combine them with another speaker that will compliment by adding highs - like a Greenback or a Vintage 30. The flexibility of my 2 X 12 with a Greenback and a Legend V12 is perfect. My 2 X 12 cab sounds great "Fender clean" (2 or 4 position on the Strat), humbucker clean or overdriven.

This is a 120 watt rated speaker which I use in a 2 X 12 cab driven mostly by 40 or 50 watt tube amps. This speaker should last a lifetime.

I have e-mailed Eminence a couple of times. Each time they responded within 24 hours. I have owned 6 Eminence speakers to date. I have never had a problem with any of them, and that implicitly says something good about the quality of their products.

I've been playing guitar and bass for about 25 years, and have owned lots of different guitars, amps, speakers, tubes and other equipment in the process. These speakers do a great job of adding bottom end to multi-speaker guitar cab. I do not recommend using them alone unless you are using an amp/guitar combination that needs high frequencies tamed a bit. This is a good sounding, good quality speaker for the money.