That's an easy answer.
The brands that are selling them for crazy prices are able to money-grab because they know many or at least some of the players that use their amps/heads are only going to settle for the cosmetically matching cab, and finding used cabs of those brands can be very...
This wasn't really a speaker shootout,,,,it was a cab shootout.
To be a speaker shootout you would have to compare different speakers within the same or very similar cabs, although close-miking does negate a good deal of the differences, while comparing in-the-room tone is all about the...
Nah you got me all wrong sorry. I simply found humor in the contrast between your and Karl's description of the M65.
I've never had the chance to play one myself, but the OP was asking what to mix with the M65, and I suggested the t75.
I seem to be a middle-era guy with most of my favorites being in that 3rd to 6th album zone.
That's my opinion with Mettalica, Slayer, Morbid Angel, Carcass, ect...
Even many "first" albums are not really the first because they had either demos or were using a different band name before the...