Eminence Legend 1218 12" Guitar Speaker 150W 8 Ohm

I built a hand wired P2P Princeton Reverb clone. I built the cabinet and made it 334; taller with a 1034; and a 1234; baffle to broaden my speaker choices. This is amp is for home use only. I tried out the following speakers: Jensen C10R Jensen Mod 12-35 Jensen P10R-F Celestion V-Type Celestion G12M Heritage WGS Veteran 10 WGS G12Q WGS Black Blue Weber 12A150T Eminence Redcoat Ramrod Eminence Legend 1218 Tone Tubby Chicago Blue Some good speakers there, but the 1218 won the contest. I changed them out several times and the 1218 always come out on top (for me). That I even bought a 1218 was more of a chance encounter, finding one on sale elsewhere at a very very low price. A little research revealed an almost identical SPL chart range as the Swamp Thang, just -3dB quieter across the spectrum. Perfect for home use, as that Swamp Thang is LOUD! JazzPlayers's 2012 description is right on the money.

Im running the 16 ohm Eminence 1218 along side an 8 ohm Celestion V30 in my Line6 40 watt tube Bogner mkII. First of all, I spent about 3 days on the Eminence website endlessly pouring through speakers, and A/B'ing back and fourth and I narrowed it down to this, and the Red Fang, which is another freaking awesome speaker that thankfully nobody knows of. (Lets keep this in the club guys, you obviously did your homework to make it to this review!! The uninitiated need not know!!) The only reason that i didn't run the Legend with the Red fang is cause theyre both 16 ohm, and i lost tone somehow with only 40 watts pushing two 16s. (I think they make an 8 ohm version of both though.) Also because this speaker is a 150 watt. Lots of headroom indeed. but the Legend and the V30 complement each other nicely. The V30 covers the treble and the mids, and the 1218 just makes the distortion channel have the sweetest low and midrange v30 like tone. Its like a High def V30 with a darker sound, but its super clear and ballsy. Ive got to crank my 40 watt valve amp to about 8 to get her in the sweet spot, but damn its sweet. probably breaks up (aka volume at which the sweet crunchy hard rock tone stuff happens) at a lower volume in a 50 to 100 watt Valve amp. like the other reviewer said in a 50 to 100 watt tube amplifier is ideal. For $87.00, you truly will be elated. Made here in Eminence, Kentucky USA also. Im super satisfied with the tone. Agressive, Modern hard rock OD gainy tone, and very clean and articulate with a slight chimeyness on Clean !!

I got a Yamaha 1x12 cab recently that features the Legend 1218 speaker. Yamaha intends that cab for use with their THC series modeling amp heads that can produce many different amp tones. I got it to go with a different head, an Egnater Rebel 30 Mk II with switchable/blendable EL84/6V6 power sections. I agree wholeheartedly with the advertised claim, 34;Warm, smooth and fat American tone, with a hint of smooth British break-up.34; Fat, punchy clean tone, crunchy dirty tones, detail and definition galore at all volumes. It sounds great playing blues, funk, rock, country, everything I can think to strum or pick, and it's not even fully broken in yet! Simply a fantastic speaker.