Celestion G10 Golds or Weber Blue Pup/Silver 10 in 5F6-A Bassman?

[chief_stallion03]

So I recently completed building my first amp, a 5F6-A Bassman! I have the cabinet and I am unsure what speakers I should use for it. I have narrowed it down to a couple options from my own research.

Option 1: Four Celestion G10 Golds

Option 2: Two Weber Blue Pups up top and two Weber Silver 10s on the bottom

Which do you all recommend or do you recommend something else?

Note: I like British style speakers more than I like American style speakers.

 

[Timbresmith1]

Option 3: two Celestions and two Webers.
That way, if micing the cab, you can choose the sonic profile

 

[2L man]

I chose P10R-Fen after testing many single 10"s. Low sensitivity is what make it great for my use. Gold is very expensive and heavy and its low volume sound is not as interesting as low power low sensitivity speakers have. Gold loud volume is great but because its sensitivity is high I think four Gold will run quite low power unless you can play very loud.

Celestion Ten sound brit and it is good sounding speaker but when its price is considered it is great.

 

[hotcoffeenochill]

I have an alnico silver bell and alnico blue pup in a 2x10. Sounds out of this world, they pick up each other’s slack very well, but they are shockingly low efficiency compared to nearly every other speaker I’ve played.

I generally have to run whatever amp I’m playing in to them 2 notches up on the volume dial to get the same perceived volume output as some of my other 1x12s

 

[slider313]

If it's my amp I would go with four Weber 10A125 alnico's, @ 30 watts each, with light doping of the surround. Basically Weber's version of the Jensen P10Q.

 

[schmee]

many options, The Silver/Blue pup combo is a popular combo.
hard to beat Celestion Golds though! But...$$$$
As mentioned the 10A125's are good. Bright but so were the Jensens in those vintage amps.

I like the idea of the light duty P10R-Fen's also.

All mentioned will be a lot of $ for 4.

 

[Wally]

If it's my amp I would go with four Weber 10A125 alnico's, @ 30 watts each, with light doping of the surround. Basically Weber's version of the Jensen P10Q.

This or Eminence ALK1028s.

 

[Antoon]

For me, in order for such an amp to be useful, the speakers would have to be lightweight with low sensitivity. Not too expensive (you need four!) and can be low wattage. They also have to 'work together' and not necessarily as a single unit. The Jensen P10R-Fs, 10" Green/Creambacks, other Celestion or Eminence offerings..

 

[KC]

Have had the Webers in ceramic versions but only 12s. Loved them both, found the ceramic versions to be plenty efficient. I'm very fond of the Greenback 10, too, though four of them might load up on bass a little too much. Two Greenback & two blue pups?

 

[tubedude]

If it's my amp I would go with four Weber 10A125 alnico's, @ 30 watts each, with light doping of the surround. Basically Weber's version of the Jensen P10Q.

Or, my favorite combo, 2 10A125 and 2 10F125 Webers.

 

[Antoon]

Maybe the Jensen MOD 10 35? It has a Celestion type cone. The Celestion V jr gets great reviews.