Ceramic Vs Alnico Speakers

Gotta say my new new to me anyway swr golight 15s have been a real pleasant surprise.

Ceramic vs alnico speakers. Ceramic bass in the real club world where i m 50 years old. Ceramic is the cheapest and most common material. Ceramic speaker have more headroom ceramic speakers tend to have smoother breakup alnico speaker sound warmer and slightly darker. Alnico speakers compress at high volumes.

What wgs speaker would be best for my tone king imperial which is a dual channel amp with one being blackface and the other tweed to light marshall. Let s listen to how they sound. Neo all the way. Whereas ceramic is used in metal as it sounds tight loud and cool.

The most common type of ceramic magnet is strontium ferrite which demagnetizes much less easily than alnico. The domains change state much faster so there is little to no compression as the voice coil moves to its mechanical limit. I haven t liked most neo speakers. Alnico is nice and warm and great for blues.

You often hear that the sound of a pickup is dominated by the choice of magnet used in its construction. Alnico is commonly thought to produce the most vintage tone and has a reputation for sounding compressed. Donate to guitars for good causes. If you are comparing speakers that have the same magnetic flux but generated from different magnet compositions you probably won t notice a difference in tonality.

Ceramics do not alnico speaker breakup quicker that ceramic i e. Mark bartel the designer engineer for the tone king imperial feels that it is a mid range issue and not a ceramic vs. Bass in my dreams where i m 24 have roadies and am playing arenas. Really like the ceramic jensens.