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is it just me or are these v30s way the fuck better than the normal ones in every way?
dass101":27i932lk said:I recently A/B'd a V30 taken from a Mesa cab and one I bought a few years ago from a local shop. Both were used extensively, and well broken in. The Mesa one sounded MUCH better, with much better deffinition and a very nice sizzle. I sold the "regular" one the next day. Now I have a big problem: where do I find another one that sounds as good ?![]()
Whats weird is that they still call something that's no longer truely a "V30" by the same name. Obviously something had to change (cone angle or weight, ribs, dope, spider, magnet, glue)..Death by Uberschall":1u4zvbfq said:When I talked with J Marshall at Mesa several years ago while I had a low level endorsement with them, he said Mesa is contracted with Celestion to give them V30s that fall into a certain frequency response. They are made the same, they just test and pass a certain frequency response requirement to get shipped to Mesa.![]()
RIFF":1ahixudb said:Whats weird is that they still call something that's no longer truely a "V30" by the same name. Obviously something had to change (cone angle or weight, ribs, dope, spider, magnet, glue)..Death by Uberschall":1ahixudb said:When I talked with J Marshall at Mesa several years ago while I had a low level endorsement with them, he said Mesa is contracted with Celestion to give them V30s that fall into a certain frequency response. They are made the same, they just test and pass a certain frequency response requirement to get shipped to Mesa.![]()
why not just call it something else!![]()
Mesa just specifies a certain frequency response. They are still V30 by design and build, but two speakers that come off the assembly line side by side will have different responses when tested. Mesa just wants the ones that meet their specs.RIFF":fqpmawoa said:Whats weird is that they still call something that's no longer truely a "V30" by the same name. Obviously something had to change (cone angle or weight, ribs, dope, spider, magnet, glue)..Death by Uberschall":fqpmawoa said:When I talked with J Marshall at Mesa several years ago while I had a low level endorsement with them, he said Mesa is contracted with Celestion to give them V30s that fall into a certain frequency response. They are made the same, they just test and pass a certain frequency response requirement to get shipped to Mesa.![]()
why not just call it something else!![]()
Yep.blackba":1b2p6cpt said:RIFF":1b2p6cpt said:Whats weird is that they still call something that's no longer truely a "V30" by the same name. Obviously something had to change (cone angle or weight, ribs, dope, spider, magnet, glue)..Death by Uberschall":1b2p6cpt said:When I talked with J Marshall at Mesa several years ago while I had a low level endorsement with them, he said Mesa is contracted with Celestion to give them V30s that fall into a certain frequency response. They are made the same, they just test and pass a certain frequency response requirement to get shipped to Mesa.![]()
why not just call it something else!![]()
Maybe I am reading into it, but it sounds like Celestion is 'sorting' production vintage 30's for them. They send ones that fall within a certain range to mesa and the rest to everyone else.