Marshall 1960A

Hey, it's a cabinet, what do you want it to do? You can run it at 4, 8, or 16 ohms, you can run it stereo at 8 ohms. That's enough for me.

I have a few different guitars, every one's got a humbucker at the bridge. Got a frankenstein with a screamin demon, an epiphone les paul standard, and a strat rip off with some super hot origin unknown bridge pick up. I use a Peavey Classic 50 head, and sometimes a J-station for the pre amp.
This cabinet doesn't get muddy and garbled very easy. Running it with the Peavey classic 50 on top i can get some pretty decent clean sounds with the single coils on my strat rip off, and some downright gorgeous open chords with the L.P. on the neck position. The cabinet takes the sound the head gives it and does it justice. I'll play some reggae and shit like that andit sounds good. Being a closed back cabinet it's not going to be the greatest clean sound you've ever heard, but if you know how to work your head or combo right, you'd be suprised how sweet some of the sounds you pull out are.
Cranking up the Peavey and switching it over to the lead channel is where you can tell this cabinets power. It just rips at shit like this, no mud just the good sounds you're head is sending to it<if you got a decent head>. i can get raw rock and roll, good blues sounds and everything. The peavey alone doesn't do any metal so i gotta hook up the j-station to do that, and even when the level of gain is fucking ridiculous the cabinet still holds it's definition, even at deafening volumes.
Once i ran my peavey classic and an Evh 5150 in stereo through this cabinet and the sound was just insane. I mean make your balls retract into your body loud, and thiscabinet took it for a ll it was worth and then some. This cabinet is great.
Jammed on it in my bedroom, in a few practice spaces and on stage with a metal band and a punk band and it never let me down soundwise.

Took it on tour, played tons of shows in town and shows out of town for one or two nights. It's been thrown around, abused, puked on, kicked. aken spilled beers like a champion. I even dropped this fucker out the back of my girls jeep going about 35-40 mph and it still works fine( I didn't do it on purpose asshole). The only problem i see with it is the grill cloth, we all know how those things are. What else can you ask for thogh? Seriously this thing fell out of a moving vehicle and didn't miss a beat, just got a few batle scars like it's owner. I only give it a 9 cause of the grill cloth. If someone was being vindictive or if you fell just the right way you could take out a speaker.

Never had to use them, but it's a cabinet, it's not the most complicated thing in the world to fix if you have to. It's sure as hell not that damn tube head that has to get worked on every six months.

I'm 22, I've been playing since i was 11, always wanted a Marshall 1/2 stack, getting pretty close now. The real raw crunch is the sound i want and this cabinet gives you what you put into it. If someone stole it, I'd find them and gut them. Then i'd take my cabinet back because it's mine, and it's the one i want. If you get one and you don't like it, you probably can't play, or don't play music that a Marshall is good for and that's rock. It's no Fender, it's no Vox, it's no Mesa, and that's why people like me love them. Just a badass tough cabinet that will probably hang in there for longer than you will. Well most of it will those cheap plastic corners will be gone soon, and the handles might break eventully... and the casters too. The cabinet and speakers will still be there singing though, and whats an amp without some battle scars. Just in case you couldn't tell from this review I'm probably a lot rougher on my stuff than you are.

This is the REAL Marshall 4x12 stereo slant (not a knockoff 4x12 made by some wannabe company trying to ride on Marshall's apron strings). If you're looking for the "Marshall sound", this is one of the components that'll get you where you want to be.

I bought mine in 1995. This is a great sounding cabinet; it has all the "spank" and bottom I want. The secret to getting the best sound out of this cabinet is : 1. use a good amp; 2. play a good, in-tune guitar; 3. be a decent player. As the story goes, a great player can make a Squire guitar and a Crate amp sound DAMN good; a mediocre player can make a 53 gold top running through a vintage Plexi or Twin sound like crap. For the new kids trying to learn the ropes - want more bottom out of this cabinet? Unscrew the casters and set it on the floor so the cabinet can acoustically couple to the building. Want even more bottom? Put it near the corner of the stage or room. Still doesn't sound the way you imagined it would, and you're using a good amp and guitar, and you know how to play? This speaker was designed to project sound out WAY front... if you stand right in front of the speaker, you're not hearing what your audience is hearing. Plug in a wireless and walk out in front during your sound check to hear what you really sound like through this genuine rock icon.

This is an incredibly well-built speaker cabinet. If you're serious about your music and want to keep your gear in one piece, get an ATA case built for your heads and cabs. I've had mine thrown around by airline monkeys and union goons, and it still looks new because of the flight cases.

I've never had to call Marshall Customer Support; I bought the best for my brand of playing, and I take care of it so it can take care of me.

I've been playing guitar 38 years now; I've traveled all over north America with a number of bands; I play Fender and Gibson guitars, through Fender and Marshall amps. I chose the Marshall 1960A to go with my 1992 JCM 900 2500 50 watt super lead III because it was a perfect match. If you want to be taken seriously, you have to have serious chops, and serious (and dependable) gear. The Marshall 1960A is serious (and dependable) gear. Period.

I bought a 2002 Marshall 1960A cabinet. Like everyone said... Celestion 75W, 300W Stereo (150 /chan.).

I use a Gibson Les Paul Studio and I combine the cabinet with a Marshall Valvestate 8200 (100w) head. It's a good combination for the price and it's ok for the music i'm playing (punk-rock). It handles the brutal distortion of my Valvestate but the clean sound is a bit dramatic... well not too good.

No problem with thoses cabs... I think Marshall has a good reputation ! No customer service but good reputation !!!

I had to take a decision when I bought this cab... Go on with Marshall and enjoy the sound of a good distortion that came with the Valvestate and have a good value if I want to sell it one day or get a MesaBoogie kit. Sure Mesa cabs are ahead Marshall (heavier, and larger dimensions). But for the money, I got a better deal with a very cool sound from Marshall instead of paying 1,200$ CAN for the cab and 2,500$ CAN for the Triple Rectifier head ! Is it worth the price ? And it was cool to change my tube for the first time and learnt it costs 25$ CAN instead of 300$ CAN for a Mesa tubes kit !!!!

You Know the score.... 300w switchable stereo mono operation, celestion 75w drivers

I am currently using this cab with the tsl 100 head...
i am not entirely happy with this..
it is definately not the rest of my setup considering that i use an ibanez jem 7dbk, and american fender deluxe fat strat.
firstly i would like to say that marshall cabs are very limited in what sounds they can produce. Sure everyone says "yeah 300w 4x12 etc."
But im sorry this cab is a wooly pile. if you are in the market for a good 4x12 then go look at mesa who im sure make some of the best cabs around.
if you like your guitar to fart out and you like your cab to be woofy then go for it but otherwise dont.
i have played this cab in lots of live venues and on several occasions outdoors.
At this out door festival i was using my amp as follows...

TSL 100 head
TWO Marshall 4x12s
My Ibanez
Wah and Line 6 mm4 in front of the amp.

This was one of the few opportunities that i have had to run this amp TOTALLY flat out since the p.a. wasnt that good so we had to crank the backline.
The whole of the gig my settings were as follows on the lead channel

Bass 8
Mid 6
Treble 5
Presence 2
Deep IN
Tone shift IN
VOLUME 10
Gain 10

I have never heard a pair of cabinets that sound so tinny and weak and fart out so much.
I am taking delivery of my new dual recto and mesa 4x12 today ha ha ha .

Like a Panzer except the covering tends to rip a little easily
Dont like the wood that the cabinet is constructed from, not dense enough so you dont really get those tight bottoms.

Never dealt with them...sorry

i am 18 and have been playing for nearly 13 years i have owned lots of gear etc. DONT BUY THIS CABINET, IT BLOWS.

4x12, one input for 4ohm, 8ohm, and 16ohm, G12T-75 Speakers, includes casters. Seen better, but its good

I'm using this through a parker P44 w/pearly gates neck humbucker, into a Peavey 5150 II, and the sound is awesome. I must admit like one other user said, there is a "dead zone" with this cab. Its about 5 ft out that everything gets harsh, trebly and loses tone. From the audience point of view the cab sounds great, its just this one zone. It has G12T 75 watt Celestions, of course its gonna sound great. Honestly, if a cab has good speakers and is made of good matterials (wood) its gonna sound good. The size of the cabinet changes the tone of the cabinet as well. There's not too much difference between cabinets, other than that. Its great, not TOO heavy, and includes casters, (mine did)

its a big box of high powered celestions, nothing more to say

I bought this cabinet because it was convinient. I like how it sounds, i play mostly heavy stuff with my band. I use this cabinet with my peavey for the dirt and grind. I use a seperate amp for cleans cause peavey has the dirtiest cleans ever. I can't stand when people rate marshall products on their ability to produce marshall tone, not wether they sound good or not. this WILL get you plenty of tone if you have a TSL. Marshall amps suck other than the expensive ones. I want to end this review with one thing. Its a big box of cones! just check the quality of the speakers and you can't really go wrong with any cabinet!

sound great, i own 3 of these bad boys,2 JCM900'S (1 SLANT,1STRAIGHT)AND A JCM800 1960A and they've never failed me yet

sounds great with just about any combination of equipment, I've used 800's, plexi's,etc. and all sound good

the tolex and grill clothe on these really suck. i have mine in road cases for that reason alone even the cheap plastic handles chip off easily

I've played about 250 gigs on these and they hold up well not user friendly unless you have roadies, whom I've been very blessed to have. overall rocks!

4x12... Celestion gt75s. Basic Marshall midline cabinet. Nice looking. Like the casters, and handle. Not too heavy. Very switchable.

I own a Peavey Triple XXX, and have been researching cabs for some time now. I've used a new 1960A, a 5150, an Egnater, a Carvin 2x12, a Crate 1x12, and Peavey MTS 4x12. All these new except the Peavey 5150 sucked really bad... but... I just used a two year old 1960A all broken in, and i just about died. It sounded so good, I couldn't believe my ears. I usually use an EQ pedal through the EFX loop, but I don't think I'll even need it with this.

New this cab get a 7
The used one a flat up 10

I'm sure the cab is tough, but the cloth is pretty puny.

Never dealt with Marshall.

good ol' 9 for ya... Buy one, and use it often. It'll break in, and you'll be extremely pleased.

Pretty simple 4 x 12 cabinet. Mono or stereo operation. I purchased this brand new to replace a 1980's Marshall Cab that just got too "loose" with the sound. I replaced the speakers in the old cab but it was still loose so I broke down and purchased the new 4 x 12.

I just recently purchased a new JCM2000TSL 100 (see additional review) but I also have a Marshall JCM800 that I used with my old cabinet. This sound of this cabinet is much tighter, but I do have one huge quirk. Playing through both the JCM2000 and the JCM800, there is a "danger zone" about 8 to 12 feet in front of the amp. This "danger zone" is the worlds worst high end-take-your-head off toneless zone. No matter how I EQ the amps if I step out that far it just hurts. It'll sound great right up in front of the amp and it sounds great in terms of projection to the rest of the club, but this zone I just don't understand. At first I thought it was the new TSL that I didn't know how to EQ, but I hooked up my JCM800 that I've been playing for almost 20 years and I have the same thing. I dont know, I give it a seven for that. Next time I'll purchase a handbuilt cabinet such as a Bogner, Soldano, or Mako.

Well, I played my last one for 20 years and I got more than my money's worth. I'd say this one is similar in construction but the old adage is true "they don't build them like they used to".

I've been playing Marshalls for 20 years and have never had one iota of a problem. I take care of my cars, my gear, and my wife, I don't know how some people can bitch.

I play Les Pauls strictly through Marshalls. I used to think there was nothing better. Although this cab kicks the piss out of the Peavey and Crate cabs (yeah don't laugh, I tried everything!) I think that Marshall has fallen behind because some people have decided to build better. I give it a 7 because it started it all, but there are cabs on the market that are made of better components but are more expensive.

slant marshall ho-hun cab.stock and basic as a cab gets. oh yeah, the casters are a joke compared to mesa's casters on the recto-cab. And the handles rattle.cheap construction, but whatever... i guess tradition is traddition.

sounded really great at a median volume with my 5150. i ran a BBE sonic maximizer in the loop which gave the lows and high amazing character in clean and distortion modes.
but in the end I left it for a mesa recto cab. Its the same song and dance you've heard up and down this page, THIS CAB WOOFS OUT SERVERLY WHEN YOU CRANK THE LOW END!. other than that it was sparkling at lower volumes.

sucks. I ripped the grill cloth putting it in the van in the parking lot of the music store right after i bought it. I was parnoid ever since and for good reason. the grill cloth and upolstery are totaly disposable. I've wiped with toilet paper that held up better.

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Honestly now that im not giging out anymore and I dont have to rock such huge volumes to compete with loud drummer, I would love to go back to one. It has its pro's and cons,Its built like crap and doesnt stand the test of a tour, but i think this cab was a key ingredient in my dream-sound that i miss.
somtimes if it sounds good, thats all that matters. even if the recto-cab is built better.

I ordered and bought this in Jan. 2002. I asked the dealer here for a brand new one still in the box and he got it for me. This is the best amp cabinet made in my opinion! It can be run in stereo or mono, 4,8,or 16 ohms, etc. It also has the best giitar speakers ever made too, the G12T-75w. This is the real thing people. Right now I'm playing this amp with a Marshall TSL 60 head. This may be the best amp/cab(s) combination ever made!

I have five electrics and all except one has DiMarzios on them. The other guitar has an EMG-81 and they all sound great with this cabinet. It suits my music to a T. I play rock and metal and even a little thrash and this cab covers it all. It does not muddy up. It sounds good at low volumes but I think it sounds better cranked. I get all kinds of harmonics, sustain, crunch, you name it. I hope Marshall always makes the 1960 with these G12T-75w speakers. Because they're simply the best. I may buy a 1960B just so I can set the A up to where I can hear it better. If you like high gain like me, this is probably your cab.

Well it's a Marshall. And it feels very solid. It's birch plywood. It's also very heavy. And it should to be, to help it sound better.

They've been very friendly via email when I've had questions. Hopefully, I won't ever need their help for this product.

I've been playing for twenty-five years, and I've always wanted one of these. This is the best cabinet made and I'm so glad I have one. Sure I'd buy another. Thank you Jim Marshall. Thank you Celestion. Keep up the good work guys.