The Steel Guitar Forum

My Roland Jazz Chorus 120 is in for repair and the serviceman told me that the both of the EV 12" SRO's need to be reconed at a cost of $150 each. Rather than having these reconed, I am considering putting in a pair of emminance speakers because of the price and the weight of these speakers(the Roland weighs 85 pounds with the SRO's) My questions are:
1. Sound
2. dependability
3. Which model
I use the amp for guitar and I also run it stereo with my Nash 1000 for steel.(sounds great!)Any info would be appreciated.

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$150...each? <u>Way</u> too much for a 12" recone job! Try elsewhere.

Eminence makes some good speakers, but they make nothing that compares with the SRO's, IMHO.

I agree with Donny, get the originals reconed or you wont have the amp you once had. You will fall out of love with it faster than ........well fast. LOL.
I am sure you can find someone to recone those cheaper.
If you must replace the speakers, I would try a set of Celestion Vintage 30's. The 30's will be much more transparent than the Eminence. You might try the Evans 12" Eclipse if you want to go the Eminence route as they are designed for jazz guitar and steel. If it were me, I would search for some originals. I am sure someone took them out of one of these amps at some time or another. There might be some around.

Michael T.

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sorry..... wrong post...<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Michael T. Hermsmeyer on 29 January 2003 at 02:58 AM.]</p></FONT>

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I purchased a pair of Kappa 15's Eminence. This is what their tech suggested.I left them in the cabinet for about a day.
They sucked. In part, it was my fault for not checking the wattage, and just believing the tech knew what he was talking about. They were rated at 350 watts. The were rated way to high for my amp. Never the less, I still think the tone and sound would not be what I wanted, even with the correct wattage.
I asked for my money back the next week.
My 2 cents.

High power handling capability is not always a sign of good design. It's easy to design a speaker that will handle a lot of power...just use a heavy duty cone, and a heavy voice coil/former assembly with generous clearances. Trouble is, the added mass and increased clearances usually lead to poor frequency response, low efficiency, and lost transients.

To save yourself a lot of hassles, don't try to use speakers that aren't already proven and popular in our application. Over 90% of the pros use JBL's, EV's, or Peavey's. And yes, there is a reason...they work!

Good speakers don't come cheap, and cheap speakers don't come good.