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Nah, you'll chase after it until it comes back home. They've been faithful to me for about 34 years now. Don't yell at them, treat them nice and they'll stick around.Bighouse wrote:Never date a SVT cabinet. It'll only leave you one day for another musician and break your heart.
Bighouse wrote:Never date a SVT cabinet. It'll only leave you one day for another musician and break your heart.
An SVT is not just a "favorite" vintage amp or cab Ilan, it is in a league of it's own, they're are stilll viable and will still blow away most amps made today which is why they are still sought after and still cost more than many new amps. I regularly use one cab withit's mate tube 300 watt head and it never breaks up, it gets too loud. They are sealed which gives them much greater power handling capacity and 8 10"s have the cone area of almost 4 15"s and tube amps are a lot thicker and louder watt for watt in general then SS amps and 6550 tubes are very difficult to break up in general anyway. Any Ampeg SVT cab that farts at living room levels in a hurting puppy and should be serviced before being used. These were known as the only amps that could compete with 100 watt Marshall guitar stacks back in the loud days, the benefit from that is that they can play very loudly and clearly with ease and still sound great and still blow away many modern amps today, kind of like a vintage 427 Corvette. I've used them on some pretty big stages in my life time and I can attest that they have THE REP for a reason. They are also very reliable with minimum upkeep. I bought one in Lima, Peru, I assume they must be available in Israel? It sounds like you've never tried one although with your amount of playing time I find that hard to believe. If you haven't tried one I would suggest you do, you might like them. SVT's ushered in a new age and are still being copied today by just about every manufacturer. The very early SVT cabs with Alnico magnets don't quite keep up with the later ceramic magnet cabs, but they only made those for a year or two if that's what you're thinking of.ilan wrote:Please explain why would anyone want an old speaker cabinet? Bass speaker/cab technology has made giant steps in the last decade, they are now smaller, lighter and significantly louder without farting out at living-room levels, why not get something more modern? You can hook it up to your favorite vintage tube amp if you want. Is there something here I don't get? Please enlighten me.
The early matching blue line cabs of which I had one (blue line set up) had alnico magnets I believe and didn't have quite the same amount of power handling as the later ceramic magnet cabs, the early blue line cabs are pretty rare and just about all SVT cabs you see today have ceramic magnets including the one in the ebay ad, these are virtually impossible to bottom out and will kill just about any 4 x 10 I've ever used, 4 x 10's sound good don't get me wrong but they sound "small" compared to an SVT 8 x 10. An Ampeg 8 x 10 will easily fill a room with deep bass without being pushed especially if it is mated with an SVT head. Watch out bobampeg is alive and well! Jeffrey remembers well,wings012345 wrote:I agree. The new ampeg 4/10 cabs rock and never bottom out. Or Fart as you put it. Now the older SVT heads, I love. I had a 69 blue line. Nothing ever sounded better. Was just too damn heavy.
