Quick links to the models mentioned on this page: Celestion Greenback Speakers – An Overview Ceramic speakers (aka ‘greenbacks’) first appear around late 1964 to early 1965. They have a slightly more aggressive tone compared…
Guitarists often go to great lengths and expense in their quest for the ultimate guitar tone. Yet speakers all too often get overlooked. So long as they make a noise they are good right? Actually,…
The Celestion greenback 20 watt G12M and 25 watt G12H are some of the most sought after pre-rola speakers. However it is easy to be fooled by the labels on these speakers, everything is not…
Quick links to the models mentioned on this page: Celestion Alnico Speakers – An Overview Alnico’s are easily the most collectable vintage Celestion speakers, and can be found in ‘holy grail’ amplifiers and speaker cabinets…
Tone Is In The Cone Over the years Celestion have used various cones from different suppliers, all slightly different in tone. Celestion have never really given any information out about their suppliers. Therefore a lot…
Unfortunately there is a lot of fake and ‘lashed-up’ vintage gear floating around on the used market. Most of which can be traced back to one notorious dealer in UK. In this blog post I…
Very little seems to be known about the very early Celestion and Rola G12 speakers from the 1940’s and 1950’s such as the Rola / Celestion B025, the P74 and P44. Examples do turn up…
