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Waddaya mean "door" all I see is a potty lid!
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I called Great Plains Audio about their 417, the price is $360 if you buy one, four, or a hundred. And they can do 16ohm voicecoils no problem he says. COOL!
Guy says its something to do with the price of mined Cobalt only coming from two places on the planet, and the country of origin commands a duty fee equivalent of over half the price of the speaker itself.
too bad you can't make AlNiCo magnets without it.. but it sure makes reconing the originals look a helluva lot cheaper. ebay price is almost $200 ea.Comment
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So basically Marshall is reissuing a 70's Metalface with white tolex...whatfuckingever. I guess it could have a cascaded preamp, which is no big deal either...just wire the preamp tubes a little different. I'm not sure what good it would do you on this amp, considering it is a non-master volume, other than a little extra bite.Comment
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I have some demo recordings with Altecs when I had 'em, and the Celestions I now have sound so different that I play differently.
It feels like all the top end of my tone is cutoff! I didn't know Randy used these back then, you didn't have the internet nor pics of what his cabinets looked like at all. But the one thing I do know is the 417 and how awesome and sensitive and powerful it is, and what it can do.
I'd rather have a cabinet fulla 417's than one full of pre-68 greenback speakers and that's saying something.
The speaker is really really important to getting Randy's tone, without the 417's in the stack "just another metal-paneled 100w spinoff" is a pretty accurate statement!
Getting the head is a good effort, but they're only halfway there without the 417's. They make the cabinet really heavy, and they're expensive but also critical if you're gonna sound like Randy.Comment
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