Help: Anything other than a Celestion Greenback sound like a Greenback?

Hi guys, I played through a Hughes and Ketner 2x12 earlier this week and it sounded friggin awesome, way better than the one I currently use (a CGM). I looked up the specs on it and the HK uses Celestion Greenbacks whereas mine uses Eminence something or another. My question is...

I'm getting a lot of harshness out of my Eminence speakers. Part of it is I play in a room with tile floors but part of it is just the speaker itself. No matter what I do that harshness is always there. I thought about a beam blocker but standing to either side of my box and it still sounds harsh even when I'm not directly in the beam. So I'm thinking maybe a change of speakers are in order. I'm told the greenbacks distort early and thus mellow out a lot of that harshness.

But, they're like $125 ea. and made in China (which to me is like an oxymoron).

I've heard that there are some clones of Greenbacks and speakers that are even better than Greenbacks for smoothing out that harshness.

Currently I run a Egnater Rebel 20 and a Vox Nighttrain. I also plan on getting a Peavey Classic 30 one day in the near future.

Any speaker recommendations?

Try here:

http://www.mojotone.com/amp-parts/British-Vintage/British-Vintage-Series-12-BV-25M-Speaker-8-OHMS-25W-1-5

or here

http://warehousespeakers.com/proddetail.php?prod=green25_12

search youtube for warehouse green beret clips...I know there are a few

Check out Guitar Warehouse Speakers. They have Greenback and other Celestion style clones for good prices. A friend has a set in his 212 cab and love them.

hellatone makes some nice, affordable celestion type speakers. (they actually are celestions that are pre broken in)

right here:

http://www.avatarspeakers.com/hellatone.htm

good peeps, too.


rand z

How about this....a real Celestion Greenback for $75

http://cgi.ebay.com/Celestion-16-ohm-G12M-25-watt-12-Greenback_W0QQitemZ280454332856QQcmdZViewItemQQptZ LH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item414c6181b8

Or this one for $85:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Celestion-G12M-Greenback-12-Guitar-Speaker-Box-16-Ohm_W0QQitemZ220543931552QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_Def aultDomain_0?hash=item33597154a0

Or a slew of others on regular auction by regular people that'll go for even less like these:

Made in UK!
http://cgi.ebay.com/Celestion-G12M-Greenback-Reissue-English-Made_W0QQitemZ330396467167QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_De faultDomain_0?hash=item4ced29ffdf

So's this one:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Celestion-G12M-25-Greenback-for-Marshall-amp_W0QQitemZ280453090662QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_Def aultDomain_0?hash=item414c4e8d66

Maybe this one? (Identical to the oen above, the guy must be clearing out a 2x12 or 4x12:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Celestion-G12M-25-Greenback-for-Marshall-amp_W0QQitemZ280453092807QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_Def aultDomain_0?hash=item414c4e95c7

Thanks guys.

Those Avatar Classic 30's look nice...the Hellatone. I wonder what they're asking for greenbacks? I just read several reviews of the WGS Green Berets and they sound very tempting...