New V30s sound pretty good - John Browne YT vid

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Kagami said:
Not all of them, I have a T75 made last year in China, also V30 seems to still be made there too.
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So, now we have a bit of a mystery....From 2020 until ? we have everything made in England...I wonder when the Chinese production re-started? Clearly, the British made H30s I had were MUCH better than the 2009 Chinese made versions I tried and dumped fast....way less top end 'fizz'.....
 
Kagami said:
Not all of them, I have a T75 made last year in China, also V30 seems to still be made there too.
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The whole point of this thread is that V30’s are being made in UK again. I know for sure because I got one.

I also got a new GB 2 days ago and Celestion has also changed their packaging. No more white fold out boxes. Comes in a regular brown box stamped Made in UK.
 
All the V30 stuff has been really wild. I hated V30s for years. I got a Mesa cab in 2022, and it has sounded better than any other cab I've had. Couple months ago, I grabbed a 2004 Mesa cab with speakers from the "golden era" time period, and it sounds great. The feel and sound are pretty different from my newer V30s, but I like both. I've certainly experienced what people have typically said about V30s being ice picky, too. I agree that it's nuts that Celestion can call these the same speaker across decades when they can sound so vastly different. You can hate some and love others and it just doesn't provide any sense of reliability or consistency in terms of getting a speaker that sounds like you expect it to sound, or that you even like lol.
 
EyesOfTheSouth! said:
The whole point of this thread is that V30’s are being made in UK again. I know for sure because I got one.

I also got a new GB 2 days ago and Celestion has also changed their packaging. No more white fold out boxes. Comes in a regular brown box stamped Made in UK.
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Maybe that's OEM vs retail packaging?
 
EyesOfTheSouth! said:
Possibly
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Actually I looked at Lex Luthor's new video and his also had Browne packaging but had printing on it with a 100 Years sticker so maybe it's throwback packaging, interesting.

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Racerxrated said:
So, now we have a bit of a mystery....From 2020 until ? we have everything made in England...I wonder when the Chinese production re-started? Clearly, the British made H30s I had were MUCH better than the 2009 Chinese made versions I tried and dumped fast....way less top end 'fizz'.....
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It was actually pretty weird because I ordered 2 T75 8-ohm off Amazon since they were on sale for $100 and the packaging was different from my made-in-UK celestions I've gotten, the speakers were in a sealed plastic bag with a silica pack, the funny thing is one had mold spots on it so I sent it back.

Watching Fricker's Vintage 30 video his was also MIC and had the plastic bag.
 
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