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…
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…
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…
All Celestion speakers have a model number denoting their specification, usually beginning with the letter T. This apparently represents the word ‘type’. Speakers with the ‘CT’ and ‘RT’ prefix are said to represent ‘Rola type’…
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…