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Well Ill break the ice on this one.The coolest experience I had last year was building a 2x12 maple cab and using a alnico blue and a greenback together.Never tried it before and it really sounded cool.I want to get 2 scumbacks next in a cab Im doing now.I like having removable back panal sections as well.You get to have a choice on how much you want open.
Speaker cabs really can make a amp change in a big way.The depth of a cab in the 2x12 produce more base and bottom.I have a recto cab that really takes marshall well.I think that cab is about 14" deep.Mike

My go-to cab for the past few years is also affordable. I bought an unloaded Avatar 2x12 (convertible, but I have it closed), and put in an Eminence Man-o-War and an Eminence Texas Heat. I love this cab for rock at full volume, and for playing quietly at home. Now nothing else sounds right. Not to say nothing else sounds good; I have a Celestion Blue in an open-backed pine cab that's awesome. But my Avatar has become the baseline for everything else.

Great idea for a new section!

Mikey I mixed up the same pair, Celestion Alnico blue with Celestion 25w green back. But then I got a Gold and paired that with the blue. The other blue is paired with Celestion 12H.

Mark

I bet the Gold and the Blue together was killer.!!!

Today I started to put finish a natural maple for my buddy Bob.No dye just the pure maple.Little by little the figure comes to life with the oil.Gosh I love wood!!!!!!!!

NICE PIECE!!!

Mike - that cab is Stunning!
Mikey's cabs force me to build better amps.
Anything that looks that good, has to sound great too.
Great Work Mike - you've got skills brother!

Very nice Mikey it's a lot like the one you built for me buddy.

Mark

Wow, that is gorgeous Mikey!

Sweet cab.Is that miter jointed? Do you use Biscuits or something else to reenforce it.

Here's one of my favorite speaker combinations.

Celestian vintage 30 and a Celestian Greenback.

I Likey!!!!!!I dont think I would ever put the same two speakers together after the one I built for my buddy.I bet the V30 and the greenback is killer.Im going to try to do that soon.Thanks Mikey

In reply to the cab I use beech tendons in the miters ,they are from a festool domino tool.Cant get anything as strong as this.Biscuits just line things up but really dont add strength.They will never come apart with this system.Mikey

I did it by accident many years ago, being a dumbass cheapskate kid.

I blew one of the speakers in an Ampeg VT-22. I think those were Eminence with a square magnet.

Someone sold me a used EVM-12L cheap to replace it (This was the seventies).

The combo of one speaker that compresses with one that is more hifi was pretty magical. But at the time, I thought the magic was the new speaker. A few years later I replaced the other Eminence with another EVM, but it wasn't the same, and I went back to two different speakers.

Something about two different voices separated in space just makes an amp sound more 3D.