Weber Legacy's

[duke of earl]

Alright fellas I just installed a pair of 65 watt Legacy's in my 2x12 combo today. Instant butter! I selected the 40 oz magnet to get earlier breakup. The amp is my handbuilt Hoffman AB763 circuit where channel 1 has more midrange and bark and I am using EH 6V6's. If it sounds this good now, I can't wait til the speakers are broke in. These speakers are very mellow sounding and nail the Dickie Bettes tone. Anyone try em yet?

[Ed_Chambley]

Yes, I have 2 of them.  Break-in time takes a little while and more if you got light dope.  I hook up my new speaker cabs to my home ent center and run loops of Black Sabbath The Wizzard when I leave home.  Crank it up a bit.  Really shortens the break-in time.  That song really has variety of tones.  I have a friend who uses an i-pod and runs it through one of his heads.  They are a great speaker for the money, but if you can spring for the Alnico silver and blue dog, this is my favorite combo of speaker in a 2 12.  But at $205 each it is hard to pull the trigger.  I am glad I did as it sounds great with any amp and any style.  You get the chime and scooped mids in the blue and very tight bass and the marshall mid in the silver.  They even sound great with the new bassman I just built.

Did you build a Deluxe reverb in a head version.  I have been thinking of doing one as I do not have an amp in that wattage range.  The closest I have is an Egnater Tweaker combo I use for round the house.  15 watter and a really cool amp for Chinese PCB.  It needed tube changes imediately, but after it really sounds nice and has a lot of features.  Been trying to get a schematic for it, but Egnater will not send me one and I cannot find one anywhere.

[jojokeo]

Ed, have you tried this set-up with an alnico Weber 10" blue pup w/ an alnico Weber 10" silver in a single cab?

On break-in, have you tried simply hooking them up to the heater wires of a spare tranny? I've heard of others doing this.

[Willabe]

On break-in, have you tried simply hooking them up to the heater wires of a spare tranny? I've heard of others doing this.

Fellow member Loose Change  has posted a few times that he does this,(a few others here do also) IIRC he uses a 12v PT and bolts 2 speakers together, face to face and wires the 2 speakers out of phase with each other so they move together and not against each other.


          Brad     

[Ed_Chambley]

Ed, have you tried this set-up with an alnico Weber 10" blue pup w/ an alnico Weber 10" silver in a single cab?

On break-in, have you tried simply hooking them up to the heater wires of a spare tranny? I've heard of others doing this.

I have the 10 inchers as well.  I have 4 super reverbs.  One has blue and silver crisscrossed. I also am building a 2 10's princeton right now and using some reconed CTS's to the silver and blue.  I have found I like Alnicos on top of ceramics in Bassmans and Super reverbs.  20 watt Alnicos and 30 watt ceramics.

Damn, I got way to many speakers.  I just bought some Celesiton Gold 12's.  4 of them.  They are great alnicos, but the 12 blue dog and 12 silver bell are the best speakers I have ever used and I have used a lot.

Yes, I know of the break-in you speak of, but the movement is not as natural as playing music through them.  I do run them through an eq and cut the lower bass out.  All said, I will pay $205 for the alnicos and silver bells anytime I need a 12.  They are that good.

[jojokeo]

Wow, this email response was just received today (5/31/12) for a post that was made by you in January! Don't know why the extreme latency for reply notices?

Ya gotta give it up to Weber speakers as a whole. I have a single Celestion gold 10 which I like and sold a 12. It didn't have what I expected really and didn't compare to a Blue. But, I didn't push the gold 12 hard enough consistently enough maybe? I put it into a Mesa Boogie Mark IV but that pairing didn't sound like the Mesa should so away it went.

[markvalluzzi]

I also have the Blue Dog and the Silver Bell. I love 'em ! Great sound through my Twin