10 inch guitar speaker shootout - Jensen, Celestion, Eminence 

I like the idea of that speaker in a Princeton Reverb.

@@DeanMk1 If I listen to it again I'd say Jazz/Mellow/Mono on C10Q's and Rock/Vibrant/Solo on Vintage. So yeah pretty much playstyle difference

@@StealthArt Not sure what brought that on. All I said was I like the idea of the C10Q in a Princeton Reverb. However, since you brought it up, my pick still stands. Eminence krushed everything else in that test and would be my overall pick out of that bunch, for any kind of music.

Have a modded 68 custom with a Jensen and just ordered the G10 Vintage to slap in it. Hope to mellow it out a bit

Thanks very much for your insights Aris, which touch on something we debated when planning the setup. We found that the common method of close-miking a guitar speaker with an SM57 affected the tonal balance, sacrificing highs for fullness. Despite this problem, we went ahead with the standard mic placement for ease of comparison to other videos. Next time, we'd likely mic in stereo about 1m / 3 feet back for a more realistic tonal balance. In the flesh, the Little Wonder amp has a nice vintage-correct degree of clarity.

It would be nice to have 1058

5 years later and hearing it with fresh ears and different speakers. Still impressed with the G10 Vintage (not a Celestion fan, in general) and I like the C10Q a little more these days, but in this test. Eminence all the way. Not sure what I was hearing 5 years ago to make me comment the way I did then. Just now hearing it again and the Rajun Cajun has much better sound balance through all of the examples. If that amp were mine, I'd put the Eminence in it. ...but it still would've been nice to add a Legend 1058 (and maybe a WGS G10C?) to that mix.

Thanks for your comment, Vinnie. Everyone seems to have their own favorites, but your impressions and mine are very similar, especially in the Little Wonder amp. That Celestion G10 Vintage really pushes some buttons.

Thanks very much, Vinnie. I've installed the G10 Vintage in a lot of amps, and people are always impressed with it.

Same for me, G10 Vintage

G10!

A lovely driver to be sure. Have always regretted missing a chance at two D-110s many years ago.

You're very welcome, and thanks for taking the time to share your insights. It sounds like we're on the same page: QB has settled on the G10 Vintage for the Little Wonder amp, and sister company Auburn will be shipping it's Tomboy combo with this Jensen model.

I dont know where you shop speaker prices celestion v g10 goes for 55.00 each and the ragin cajun goes for 75.00. Not a 100.00 difference.

Agreed. They all have their own flavor but the G10 Alnio is noticeably richer and more refined at all settings. I would pick that speaker hands-down for amps with limited EQ control

Thanks for your comment. The nature of the beast is that one person's "long enough" is another person's "too long" or "too short". But hopefully there's enough here for people to pursue their own investigations with a better idea of which direction they'd like to take.

I think short clips are better to hear the differences quicker.

What is "best" when all of this sounds awful?

Isn't that the point? To show how they sound unprocessed? And this shows that most of them are pretty bassy.

Maybe you should take the shit out of your ears and stuff it your mouth and you'd change your mind.

Thanks for your comments and observations, Alan. While it's true that online guitar speaker comparisons (most of which employ the same techniques used here) have obvious limitations, their popularity and the general consensus seem to suggest that they do expose noteworthy differences between speakers. And although online comparisons can't tell the whole story, they can be a useful starting point for people who don't have the luxury of gathering several different speakers to try. What's more, edited A-B comparisons like these make it much easier to focus on the detected differences between speakers than a manual procedure of installing, testing, and removing several speakers would yield. In addition, lots of musicians have superior playback systems connected to their computers, reducing the limitations of the medium. So while it would be great to be able to compare numerous pre-loaded drivers in identical cabinets, in person, in real time, few people get that chance. Besides, if you really can "make all these speakers sound great - and equally terrible" as you claim, aren't you telling guitarists that their choice of speaker doesn't matter? That's a little hard to accept.

Q.B. Amplification very true, I'm in North Australia, we don't have access to much up here just cheap and major label stuff.

I totally agree. 1 mm different placement of the mic = different sound you would have to gps the amp and mic to the mm to have a live comparison. ... and I always state "Thanks man!, my laptop speakers sound great!" LOL.

So my 30 watt NAD amp and 8" near field monitors wont give me clear sound?

Yeah, you're right Alan. If a process isn't perfect, it's better to not do anything at all, right? I say there shall be no more sound comparison videos on You Tube! You should be able to tell what a speaker sounds like by READING about it!