Hey Guys!
I was just lucky enough to pick up a Cornell Romany Plus at a great price. If you aren't familiar with them, they are a 10w Class A tweed amp with a circuit that is apparently based on a champ but I've also heard people compare them to tweed princetons (I have no idea to be honest, not knowing much about amp design). Tubes are 2xECC83 1xECC81 & 6L6GT in the power amp.
I absolutely love it but find that the top-end frequencies can be a bit piercing for my tastes, especially when the amp is overdriving hard.
It is currently fitted with a Jensen JCH 12/70 and I was considering a speaker change to calm the treble down a bit, emphasize / warm up the mid range and maybe make it slightly more 'British' sounding (without trying to completely change the character etc).
I've been looking at Celestions and lots of people seem to put Alnico Blue's in Romany's. Might that achieve some of the characteristics I've mentioned? I know that Alnico magnets are of the correct era for the design of the amp but I believe they are also known for being bright?
Any advice appreciated. As you can probably tell, i'm a bit of a noob with this stuff and find speaker spec sheets a tad confusing. Cheers!
I was just lucky enough to pick up a Cornell Romany Plus at a great price. If you aren't familiar with them, they are a 10w Class A tweed amp with a circuit that is apparently based on a champ but I've also heard people compare them to tweed princetons (I have no idea to be honest, not knowing much about amp design). Tubes are 2xECC83 1xECC81 & 6L6GT in the power amp.
I absolutely love it but find that the top-end frequencies can be a bit piercing for my tastes, especially when the amp is overdriving hard.
It is currently fitted with a Jensen JCH 12/70 and I was considering a speaker change to calm the treble down a bit, emphasize / warm up the mid range and maybe make it slightly more 'British' sounding (without trying to completely change the character etc).
I've been looking at Celestions and lots of people seem to put Alnico Blue's in Romany's. Might that achieve some of the characteristics I've mentioned? I know that Alnico magnets are of the correct era for the design of the amp but I believe they are also known for being bright?
Any advice appreciated. As you can probably tell, i'm a bit of a noob with this stuff and find speaker spec sheets a tad confusing. Cheers!