5150 cab!!!!!!

[DLRdelight!]

so i jsut got back from guitar center and saw that they have a used 4x12 5150 cab for 250 bucks!

now is it worth buying and is it any good???

[DLRdelight!]

so any thoughts people???

[Eyes of the Night]

I'd pick it up since it's used ... and if it's "broken in" the better ... 250 sounds like a good deal for some reason ... go back and see what you can get for a Marshall 1969 cab ... if you have anything to trade in than do it for that cab ... that's how I got my Marsh cab ...

In fact I traded my 5150 cab for it! along with some rack effects ... any chance your not buying from GC in seattle would you? That might be mine!

[DLRdelight!]

ha no chance its down here in Cali in the south bay area

i do have a peavey 212 special that cost me around 4 to 500

but i think one of the speakers has busted because i get nothing but buzz.

ill check out what you said

[DLRdelight!]

so is the 5150 cab good???

[Matt White]

Yeah...a good cab...GRATE price

[indeedido]

It is a great cab. Thick and sturdy. Tuned great. speakers are ok, modeled after the celestian vintage 30s. I had one for many years, built like a tank

[Panamark]

Get a Marshall instead

Even if you have to pay a little bit more..

[Hardrock69]

I tend to agree.

Though if the cab already has vintage 30s in it, it would certainly be worth 250, and then he could trade it on a Mashall cab eventually and get more trade in than just 250.

[Nitro Express]

I like the 5150 cab and they sound a lot better after they break in. Peavey uses a special coating on their cones to help preserve the paper better and their speakers take a while to break in because they are a tad stiff when new.

The 5150 cab sounds great with every amp I own and sounds great from clean to mean. You have to have at least one! Get a Marshall cab as well! I like having both of them! LOL!

[BrownSound1]

You mean they dope their cones...which is a way to combat shrill highs. I say gut those horrific Sheffield speakers and put some Celestion G12H30s in there. I always thought a 5150 sounded better through a Marshall cab, to be perfectly honest.

If you want a NEW cab, then check out http://www.avatarspeakers.com

These guys are reasonably priced and you can pick what speakers you want.

[indeedido]

The cab itself is built awesome. I also do not like the sheffield speakers. I like the Celestians. If you can get the cab cheap, maybe you like the speakers. If not dump the sheffields and go celestian. Carvin.com sells them for a decent price. Or, even get one of the Carvin Vai Legacy cabs, they come stock with Celestian vintage 30s.

[Nitro Express]

The key to a good guitar cab is to use baltic birch plywood that comes out of Russia or Scandinavia. Marshall has used marine birch plywood from the get go. Peavey uses it in the 5150 cab. In fact, they order from the same supplier as Marshall.

So you have a good wood box with both. Once my Sheffield 1200 speakers broke in they sound fine to me. Celesians are now being made in China so they are price gouging off their brandname. Not cool with me. I'll go with Tone Tubby speakers before I by Celesians anymore. I can live with the Sheffields and at least some kid in Mississippi got my money and not some Chinese slave driver and the greedy Celesian company.

[Nitro Express]

The key to a good guitar cab is to use baltic birch plywood that comes out of Russia or Scandinavia. Marshall has used marine birch plywood from the get go. Peavey uses it in the 5150 cab. In fact, they order from the same supplier as Marshall.

So you have a good wood box with both. Once my Sheffield 1200 speakers broke in they sound fine to me. Celesians are now being made in China so they are price gouging off their brandname. Not cool with me. I'll go with Tone Tubby speakers before I by Celesians anymore. I can live with the Sheffields and at least some kid in Mississippi got my money and not some Chinese slave driver and the greedy Celesian company.

[Nitro Express]

For what it costs to reload a used 5150 cab, just get an Avitar cab new loaded with the speakers you want. Paying the shipping is still cheaper than buying new speakers.