I have posted this in another thread but thought this would be interesting on it's own.
We can only hope that the quality checks and materials used in China and England are the same.
Here is an interesting story. My Recto 2 x 12 closed back never sounded great. My thoughts were either my Dual Rect. Amp lacked headroom??? or the speakers were not great.
As time went on there was less headroom and less headroom. WTF. Well my thoughts were it may actually be a cabinet buzz. Pulled the back off and all was tight. Pulled the front grill off and whoa.
The little center cap in one speaker was glued on off centre and the bottom part was not glued at all. It was just floating about 1/16 inch from the cone.
The Vintage 30 in question had an Ipswich sticker on the magnet and an Ipswitch white stamp on the frame. I guess this one may have been built in England.
So this bad speaker not only slipped through Celestion's QC but Mesa missed it too. My dealer just gave me a whole new cab. did not even have to wait for a new speaker.
Check out the photo!!!
http://www.lilypix.com/photos/data/14bfa6bb14875e45bba028a21ed38046/482_p50017.jpg
brianf
We can only hope that the quality checks and materials used in China and England are the same.
Here is an interesting story. My Recto 2 x 12 closed back never sounded great. My thoughts were either my Dual Rect. Amp lacked headroom??? or the speakers were not great.
As time went on there was less headroom and less headroom. WTF. Well my thoughts were it may actually be a cabinet buzz. Pulled the back off and all was tight. Pulled the front grill off and whoa.
The little center cap in one speaker was glued on off centre and the bottom part was not glued at all. It was just floating about 1/16 inch from the cone.
The Vintage 30 in question had an Ipswich sticker on the magnet and an Ipswitch white stamp on the frame. I guess this one may have been built in England.
So this bad speaker not only slipped through Celestion's QC but Mesa missed it too. My dealer just gave me a whole new cab. did not even have to wait for a new speaker.
Check out the photo!!!
http://www.lilypix.com/photos/data/14bfa6bb14875e45bba028a21ed38046/482_p50017.jpg
brianf