Our lead guitar player has several 60's black face Pro Reverbs, 4 old Twin Reverbs and at least 10 more old Fender amps.  He won't use anything else.  But, he is also a collector and has about 30 guitars, mostly USA made Fender's but also a Martin, a Gibson LP and a couple odd balls.
 
His main gigging guitar is a Strat with Blue Lace Sensor pickups and a roller bearing nut.
 

A little bit of valve porn to start your day
 

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Now we're talkin!

T

Calm down Tom 

Old Marshalls and JMI Voxes; my kind of porn!

T
Anything made by Korg is NOT your daddy's Vox or Marshall!

I LOVE amps. I love amps more than guitars. I have WAY to many amps but love every one of them. I collect the 1960s Jordan stage amps. I've found two. One was found stored in a closet backstage at an auditorium, it is in great shape, the other one needs some small things, pots cleaned and I need to open the cabinet and tighten the screws, you get into the heads by taking the top handle off. Those stage amps are 2x15 combos, they actually sound pretty darn good, even the OD sounds pretty good. I have not found the "one" though. I have been looking for years for a Jordan Boss amp and Boss Satellite, a powered extra speaker cab.. those are the ones you see in the ads with The Turtles and The Mamas and Papas.
My first amp was a small SS briefcase sort of thing, I think I have lost it. My second amp was a Silvertone 1485 all tube with 6x10s (Jack White). It had two output transformers and two inputs SO.. you cold use a "Y" plug and it was actually like plugging into two amps... it was REALLY LOUD and perfect for playing "I Can See For Miles", LOL.
Then I got into acoustic, someone borrowed the 1485 and it was stolen.. oh well.
In the early 90s I decided to get a Strat and amp. I got a Peavey Delta Blues and thought I was in "high cotton" until 1997 when I got the internet and realized that there was a world of other amps and I needed all of them.
I got a Fender CVR, got it modded by Bob Clear (Admiral Ballsy). He added a switch to the back to switch a NFL in/out, basically making it switchable between a Vibrolux and a Vibroverb, changed the 5881s to 6L6 (I ended up putting the 5881s back) I hated the stock alnico blues and tried some Weber C10Qs, they were better but they were too loud and too heavy. I settled on a pair of Ragin Cajuns, they are the ticket!
Then I began to learn how to build Tweed clones. I bought a kit from STF then started to buy parts and build mostly from wiring diagrams, I couldn't find anyone to teach tube electronics and I don't know that I have the aptitude to learn the electronics, though I did learn the basics of how a tube works.
My latest amp is a Mesa Boogie Mark V. I always dismissed Boogies as nu-metal amps. I didn't know about the Mark series until talking with the guitarist from CVB, Greg Lisher who told me all the tones one those albums and the Monks of Doom albums were a Chandler Tele and a Mark III... I was sold and man! What a great amp, once you read the manual three times.
I still build from time to time, I've had two amps that I can't figure out what I did wrong. One just wont play and another has a hum I can't seem to find but all the others have worked great.
For a small jam I have two SF Champs and an ABY box or a Crate Powerblock and a Tweed Deluxe cab with a Texas Heat speaker, it is voiced like a JCM-800 and with an EQ pedal and and OD pedal, it will do anything.
I still want a new Blues Jr too... I don't think I will ever tire of new or more amps. I do need more room though!
I need to take a family portrait.
 
J

BassDaddy
I wonder how the new Vibrolux's will sound with Celestions. LOL, you can tell which ones were gigged by the brown grill. If they have slightly green tint that tells you something too. 

Try the Rajin Cajun, you won't be sorry.
 
J

Some of my favourite speakers come from Warehouse Guitar Speakers in Kentucky. I use their veteran 10's quite often, but I feel their 12" British flavoured really stand out. Good service and good pricing. I should add that for 10" Alnico speakers there's no better deal than the Eminence Legend 10/28. I can get them in Canada for about $90 each. There's nothing to compare for under $200. My #1 recommendation for a 4x10 combo amp.

I'm currently using an Eminence EPS-15C neodymium magnet 15" speaker in my steel guitar amp.   I was one of the "field testers" for Eminence when they were developing the speaker.  The first impression I had of the speaker was "this sounds just like the JBL K-130 I had installed in a Twin Reverb".  As it turns out the Eminence EPS-15C was designed to be a direct replacement for the Peavey 1501-4 Black Widow speaker.  And the Peavey 1501-4 Black Widow speaker was designed to be a higher power handling replacement for a JBL K-130 that Peavey used in the first Session 400 amplifiers. 

"for 10" Alnico speakers there's no better deal than the Eminence Legend 10/28"
1028K, my goto as well!
Celestion has some pricey ones, I've been tempted to give them a whirl, but...
I have tried the Italian Jensen clones (I have a 4x10 cab, 2x P10Q's set up to A/B with 2x 1028's),
more expensive, different; surely but not "better".
My first build was a cannibalized '72 Bandmaster Reverb chassis, and Vibrolux like 2x10 (1028K) cab.
Modern? channel switching design, Clean and Drive (PLEASE don't say "dirty") 3 spring reverb.
"I wonder how the new Vibrolux's will sound with Celestions"
If you could A/B it with Kenny's, I'm pretty sure you'd be disappointed, bear in mind my experience with
"modern" Fenders is very limited.
But, in that limited experience, the power trannies are pretty "weak", limits output power;
cuts down on warranty work?
Maybe John has some experience/thoughts on that...
 
T