Found a great speaker cabinet for my Class 5 head

[GuitarBuilder]

Up to a few days ago I was playing my Class 5 head through a standard 1960A cabinet with Celestion G12-75's. I haven't been very happy with the tone; I needed to turn the Bass way down and still it sounded boomy. The high end wasn't doing it for me, either. Out of desperation, I started researching mods and ordered parts from Mouser - I was ready to modify this monster!

About a week ago a pristine 1965A cabinet showed up on eBay, with stock Celestion G10L-35's. I won the auction and got the cab in a few days ago. The Class 5 head fit beautifully on top and I plugged it in. Holy smoke! A completely new tone came out of this combination! Gone is the boomy bass and glass, in comes a glorious sound! I was stunned!

I was originally thinking of replacing some of the stock speakers with Alnico Gold or Greenbacks, but I like this so much I'm not going to mess with it! Oh, and the mods will be shelved indefinitely.......

This is one match made in heaven!

[surfnorthwest]

Nice pairing, sometimes a couple of 10s really can sound good. Don't see those cabs around to often anymore.

[JCM900MkIII]

You have seen my C5 (combo) + 1965A and my H&K TM18 on top on the other Marshall forums.

Mine is open back and still a bit bassy.

Great find, I love mine!!!

[corbo]

have both 1965a and 1965b cabs , great cabs and very underrated. use them with various heads.
Class 5 also works well with VM greenbacks , plug it into a 2266 ( speaker cable long enough to plug into head) combo nice sound

[DODmad27]

Looks sweet! Too bad those speakers are no longer in production. Anything like them that's similar?

[LUVMACHINE]

Congrats! Happy ending or now beginning to really enjoy!

[GuitarBuilder]

Looks sweet! Too bad those speakers are no longer in production. Anything like them that's similar?

Great question! There are not a lot of 10" Celestions in the current lineup and I don't know which one is closest to the G10L-35s. Perhaps the G10 Vintage.....

[JCM900MkIII]

Maybe Celestion can help out. Drop them a line?


And as far as I know, G10L-35's were only used in these Marshall cabs.

[GuitarBuilder]

Maybe Celestion can help out. Drop them a line?

And as far as I know, G10L-35's were only used in these Marshall cabs.

So I did ask Celestion, and got a very quick answer from Dr. Decibel:

"The Tube 10 would be closest but for the biggest sound with a 10” I’d go for the Greenback.

Regards

Doc"

Not sure what he means by Tube 10......

[corbo]

Not sure what he means by Tube 10......

also known as G10E-30

[GuitarBuilder]

Thanks!

Must be discontinued - it's not on the Celestion website....

[corbo]

Thanks!

Must be discontinued - it's not on the Celestion website....

google celestion tube 10

there are a few retailers selling