Celestion Vintage 30: 12″ Guitar Speaker
Back in 1986 a new breed of hard rock player was on the rise. To meet the demands of the players and their increasingly ‘hot-rodded’ amplifiers, we set out to develop a modern speaker, capable of handling much more power and overdrive. To achieve this, we coupled our ‘H’ magnet (the closest in performance to Alnico) with a new cone and voice coil employing contemporary materials.
Our most revealing speaker, the Vintage 30 features enormously detailed and complex overtones, a warm low-end, a famously rich vocal mid-range and a beautifully detailed top-end. Used singly to reveal the complexities in hand- wired boutique amps, or in quartets for a wonderfully intricate vintage 3D crunch, the Vintage 30 sound has been captured on thousands of recordings from a diverse range of notable players including Slash, Steve Stevens and Peter Frampton.
General Specs:
Nominal diameter: 12″, 305mm
Power rating: 60 watts rms
Nominal impedance: Available 8Ω or 16Ω
DC resistance (Re): Available 7.3Ω or 12.9Ω
Frequency range: 70-5000Hz
Resonance frequency (Fs): 75Hz
Sensitivity: 100dB
Chassis type: Pressed steel
Voice coil diameter: 1.75″, 44.5mm
Voice coil material: Round copper
Magnet type: Ceramic
Magnet weight: 50oz, 1.42kg
Mounting Information:
Cut-out diameter: 11.1″, 283mm
Diameter: 12.2″, 309mm
Magnet structure diameter: 6.1″, 156mm
Mounting slot dimensions: 0.31″, 7.9mm Ø
Mounting slot PCD: 11.7″, 297mm
Number of mounting slots: 4
Overall depth: 5.3″, 135mm
Unit weight: 10.4lb, 4.7kg
