Brilliant demo Joe. Your use of various guitars, amps , and playing styles sure showed off the Silver 100 tones. Also thanks for including the Z Wreck , that opening riff with the Ric ended perfectly with a sweet KLANGING cord .
Thanks Mike! Not sure I’ve made a video/recorded a song that _hasn’t_ had a Z amp in it for a long time!! Haha The Silver + Z-Wreck is a very special combination :-)
I had a mid 70ies Vox AC30 with original silver bell alnicos for a long time. It sounded absolutlely glorious until the celestions broke in an accident. These speakers sound exactly like them and nothing will stop me from buying them.
Thanks Joe for bringing this to our attention- excellent demo. The Silver sounds good, especially with the Rickenbacker, traditional Tele and SG. I’ve been using a Gold 1x12 with my 35w Victory Copper head and a gold 10” in my 15w PRRI. Swapping speakers can get expensive, so maybe I’m relieved they don’t have a 10 inch silver yet? 😜 Thanks again!
Thanks! I’m building a 1x10” speaker cab and am planning on a G10 Gold. I saw the new silver when doing research and they have the best reviewer letting me have a listen. 🎉🎉. Thanks, really like it.
I, sir, am impressed! I'm impressed with your playing and reviews as always, but this speaker sounds amazing! The big C really hit this one out of the park! Huzzah!
i recommend mullard i63's for the preamp, mine is all loaded with 60's mullards, adding the extension cab beneath and running the amp at 8 ohms sounds even better. enjoy!
i have 2 golds in 2 different amps a vox hw ac15 with blue,and a top hat club royal with blue and g 12 h heritage...i love alnico speakers and these silvers might be the best yet!damn it,i thought i was done with speakers...!great playing,as usual!
Has rock guitar been relegated to archeological study...? My favorite is the Duo Jet....it just paired so well...the chicken plucking was really rich and the doubling slap back echo was not lost....nice.
My Ruby Alnico is nothing liked you described. I use it with a Benson Earhart 15 watt and its absolute perfection A heavy gigging friend of mine has a 60th anniversary Vox Hardwired AC15 limited to 60 units and he even thought my Ruby loaded amp was more than bright enough and had a much clearer low to mid gain than the blue in this application. we were using a gretsch white falcon and penguin. My Marshall Bluesbreaker amp is loaded with 1966 20 watt Celestions so I know what an original sounds like and never come across a better speaker in 40 years.
@Joe : thanks for the video, in a 2x12 open cab or in a 4x12 closed cabinet would you replace your Blue or Gold speakers for this 100 silver? Has anyone have eard a 4x12 Ruby or silver speaker pushed by a Marshall plexi amp compared to old Blue and Gold 4x12 cab'?
Man this could be the perfect mid powered alnico speaker for classic rock and blues rock and pretty much everything else for clean tones! Has great clarity, kraang, note bloom and articulate mids and is balanced with a pleasing bottom end! 😎😁😎👊👍
Awesome video, thanks for sharing. I will have to get one of these for my little Marshall DSL 15C, it's a great little amp held back only by a very ordinary speaker, why they put a 50w Rocket in a small 15w amp is beyond me. 😉👍
I’m another Alnico speaker aficionado. My first good amp was and old AC30 with a pair of Celestion T1088 Silver Alnico speakers. I’ve played this amp for 30 years and then it got stolen. I never found that sound again. Of course the amp itself was also a big part of that sound. I call myself an Alnico speaker aficionado, because I also like the Alnico Blues and I currently play through a couple of amps with Creambacks. However, I’m not a connoisseur. I don’t know what happened with the T1088 speakers, but I don’t think you can get them anymore, unless you’re lucky enough to find them 2nd hand. And occasionally you will see them pop up at Reverb, but for pretty hefty prices. Anyway, I absolutely loved the sound you got out of the new Celestion 100’s! Here’s a question I’ve been wanting to ask you for years now (don’t worry, it’s a harmless question 😬): every time I hear you play I hear old seventies style glam rock. Not just in the sound you get, but also your style of playing. I grew up listening to that stuff and I absolutely loved it and even to this day it’s the sound I’m going for. Is it just a coincidence that you play and sound that way, or did you just listen to that old glam rock and loved it, just like I did? Sorry, I’m just curious. 😊
It sounds great with all of your variations! Now I know what to expect tone-wise...I ordered a 100 for a 112 cab, and the speaker was unfortunately damaged in transit! But I should have a replacement from the reseller sometime next month.
@@JoePerkinsMusic I very well could have been the first customer in the States to get one, and it was (sadly) smashed up! But Sweetwater will take care of me. I don't know how available they are in the UK, but we haven't seen many make it across the Atlantic yet.
@@JoePerkinsMusic In the US it's the exact opposite! The 8's are available right now and a replacement 16 ohm is what I'm waiting for. Mine arrived at least a month ago and I was told that August should be when the new one arrives.
New Perky Video! Klick it, like it, watch it, love it! Loved it with the single coil Gretsch, the Tele and the FiterTron guitar most. It sounded awesome, but I hope some sort of comparison video is coming up - for perspective and fun of course :)
Aha, thanks mate! Don’t think I’ll do a comparison with this one as they’re the most time intensive videos to do (& precarious - knock a mic and you have to start the whole thing over!) but if you’re interested Zilla Cabs have already made a video comparing it to the Blue 👍
hi joe. sounds great with all your amps and guitars. i have a 1974x and it's hard to decide now between the 100 ,the cream or the ruby. the amp is very bright and chimy so i thought that the ruby could tame that. i love the cream on a hotrod deluxe that i have at work ,how would you describe the differences between the 3 speakers? ive heard that the 100 is more detailed than the cream if that's true it might not work for me on a bright amp. thanks
The Ruby is _very_ dark, so unless you’re running the Treble on zero and it’s still a problem, I’d say the Cream would be more up your street - it has a lot of Alnico trademarks but isn’t as upper-middy as the Blue/Silver/Gold.
@@JoePerkinsMusic thank you! the cream it is. i work on live gigs with backline amps that i loaded with nos tubes and a hotrod with the cream. please do a video about old mullards i61 vs i63 is all most players need at v1 of their marshall or vox. thanks again.
Hah - well spotted!! Still have my LP Standard but will show off the new one is a video soon (trying to find time to film at the moment is a nightmare!!)
Thanks, Joe. The Silver 100 seems versatile from the chiming Ric to the thick SG and never sounded "tubby".. I'm very curious how you expect it to change as it ages. Do you have any insights if brands of speakers have their own characteristic changes after years of use?
Great playing- thanks for taking the time to record this. Where would you position the Silver between the Blue, Gold and Cream in terms of tone and volume?
I'm really into this thing, seems like it brings back the high mids that are missing from the blue, which I think is the reason the blue falls apart with gain. I think this sounds like a blue but holds up under gain, from what few videos exist so far. Any plans for a shootout? A/B with the blue at least anyway?
i like the slight lower mid increase compared to the blue ..more like the baby of a greeny and a blue ..possibly a grail speaker....the price ofcourse is rediculous ..but the 30 watt rating means i dont need 2 for my el 84 pair amps ..
Does someone like The Darkness? 😂 Great demo! I’ve had a G12H Anniversary in my 18w clone for years. I’d put one of these in in an instant if I had the means. (I love The Darkness btw).
Thanks :-) Definitely has a lot more of the old school ‘clang’ and bite to it than the Scumback - that was a more woody, less forward-sounding speaker.
Hey Joe! Great video as usual but I have a question regarding your current opinion on the Celestion Ruby Alnico. 4 years ago you did an in depth video on it and you were of the opinion that it was a very good speaker with a slightly warmer tone than the other Celestion Alnicos. Why has your opinion changed on it so dramatically ?
Hi mate - I think the point I was (clunkily!) trying to get across is that the Ruby is very different to the Blue, Gold and Cream. It _is_ capable of some decent sounds (as per that video) but you really have to push things to the extreme to get it to sound close to a classic AlNiCo. Yes it has it's place, and it _is_ a very good speaker for those specific places it can get you/to tame a bright amp/etc, but as a 'typical' AlNiCo speaker there's plenty of others I'd choose to give me that sound before the Ruby. 👍
The supply is weak. I will eventually get the dozen or so that I need. I have about a dozen of the old ones, and a dozen of the reproduction that came out along with the Marshall JTM Offset cabinets. Those reproduction speakers were rated 15 to 25 Watts, depending upon which cabinet you referenced, and looked pretty similar to the one you have there. Most of the time I run bigger motors, Fane Axioms and Jensen Blackbirds, and I have all the ancient ones in 32 Ohm cabinets so I can stack up enough cones to survive with use.
@@JoePerkinsMusic I heard one guy say Amp watt + 10 watts is as low a wattage speaker as anyone should run ... I heard that AFTER I blew my speakers, and of course that made sense to me at that point.
like if I had enough money, I would get a Suhr Badger 18, and the 1x12, and put the 100 in that...that's a 15 watt amp, but I would at least be comfortable doing that.
You know what is consistently disappointing is that so many videos like this stay too diplomatic and don’t give their own real opinion. Leaving it up to us that are watching and listening through our phones, iPads or whatever aren’t hearing what you are in the room. I realize that it is subjective but we are at such a disadvantage.
I think perhaps that is the difference between a 'demo' and a 'review' - and whilst inevitably being a mixture of both, I see this channel as primarily being one that demos. I try to show exactly how a piece of gear sounds in a variety of different situations so that people can make their own informed decisions, rather than trying to tell the viewer what they _should_ think about it. And when you've spent £300 on a speaker (for example) there will always be a bias of me _wanting_ to like it, so 'just' showing how it sounds largely removes that from the angle. Either way, I do share some opinions in the Outro at 16:05 if you're curious.
Thank you Joe for demoing this speaker. It sounds like I thought it would...great. I'm just curious about the material of the cone, I wonder if Celestion has manufactured this cone for a new standard of speaker? We're both on the Gear Page, and a rep from Celestion/Korg annouced that the Pulsonic cone has been duplicated, but as far as mass production? I'm selling my pair of Scumnico 30 watt Alnicos to get these 100 Anniversary Speakers. And I love original Pulsonic cones too, but at 2025, I think it's too risky to buy them, I'm hoping Celestion will reintrouce the Greenbacks this coming year? Have you heard anything about them in the pipeline? Thanks Again
Thank you... that's how it's done... I watched 3 other vids on these speakers and yours was better in the first second.
That is an amazing speaker!!!! Your best tone yet imo👍🏾
Brilliant demo Joe. Your use of various guitars, amps , and playing styles sure showed off the Silver 100 tones. Also thanks for including the Z Wreck , that opening riff with the Ric ended perfectly with a sweet KLANGING cord .
Thanks Mike! Not sure I’ve made a video/recorded a song that _hasn’t_ had a Z amp in it for a long time!! Haha The Silver + Z-Wreck is a very special combination :-)
I had a mid 70ies Vox AC30 with original silver bell alnicos for a long time. It sounded absolutlely glorious until the celestions broke in an accident. These speakers sound exactly like them and nothing will stop me from buying them.
Awesome playing
Beauty! I was looking forward to this speaker, and you demoing it is just perfect!
Cheers mate - it’s an epic thing! :-)
This is your best tone of all vids right in the beginning of the vid
Thanks Joe for bringing this to our attention- excellent demo. The Silver sounds good, especially with the Rickenbacker, traditional Tele and SG.
I’ve been using a Gold 1x12 with my 35w Victory Copper head and a gold 10” in my 15w PRRI.
Swapping speakers can get expensive, so maybe I’m relieved they don’t have a 10 inch silver yet? 😜
Thanks again!
Hah - yeah, this wasn’t a cheap one to fork out for!! Hope for your sake a 10” isn’t imminent ;-)
The speaker sure made the Dr. Z amp sound great. A nice match!
Even though it’s new and has to break in, it sounds great, even through my iPad.
The speaker has great bite and a bit of growl. very, very impressive. Thanx for giving us a heads up, 😇
Definitely give one a go if you get the chance…killer sounding thing!
Thanks! I’m building a 1x10” speaker cab and am planning on a G10 Gold. I saw the new silver when doing research and they have the best reviewer letting me have a listen. 🎉🎉. Thanks, really like it.
Thanks mate :-)
I, sir, am impressed! I'm impressed with your playing and reviews as always, but this speaker sounds amazing! The big C really hit this one out of the park! Huzzah!
Thanks! Yeah, it's a lovely sounding thing - looking forward to using it a lot more in the future :-)
Great demo!
I have a Celestion G12 from 1948 that looks like your new one! I have it in my Marshall 1974x.
My favourite Marshall and speaker of a dreams ❤❤❤
Bet that sounds mega!!!
i recommend mullard i63's for the preamp, mine is all loaded with 60's mullards, adding the extension cab beneath and running the amp at 8 ohms sounds even better. enjoy!
Thanks Joe. I couldn't tell from other demos on the internet if this was a good speaker or not. I'll buy some now.
Ah amazing - yeah, this is a special speaker for sure :-)
i have 2 golds in 2 different amps a vox hw ac15 with blue,and a top hat club royal with blue and g 12 h heritage...i love alnico speakers and these silvers might be the best yet!damn it,i thought i was done with speakers...!great playing,as usual!
Thanks for the demo Joe! Just picked up one of the beauties myself and am pairing it with one of the 20W Marshall Studio JTM heads.😁❤️🎸
Nice one! Bet that’ll sound amazing :-)
Has rock guitar been relegated to archeological study...? My favorite is the Duo Jet....it just paired so well...the chicken plucking was really rich and the doubling slap back echo was not lost....nice.
My Ruby Alnico is nothing liked you described. I use it with a Benson Earhart 15 watt and its absolute perfection
A heavy gigging friend of mine has a 60th anniversary Vox Hardwired AC15 limited to 60 units and he even thought
my Ruby loaded amp was more than bright enough and had a much clearer low to mid gain than the blue in this application.
we were using a gretsch white falcon and penguin. My Marshall Bluesbreaker amp is loaded with 1966 20 watt Celestions
so I know what an original sounds like and never come across a better speaker in 40 years.
@Joe : thanks for the video, in a 2x12 open cab or in a 4x12 closed cabinet would you replace your Blue or Gold speakers for this 100 silver? Has anyone have eard a 4x12 Ruby or silver speaker pushed by a Marshall plexi amp compared to old Blue and Gold 4x12 cab'?
Guiar with time warp sounds amazing. Nice 😎👍👏🎸 brown guitar 🎸
Thanks! Yeah, it definitely has that timeless clanky Celestion sound 👍
Man this could be the perfect mid powered alnico speaker for classic rock and blues rock and pretty much everything else for clean tones! Has great clarity, kraang, note bloom and articulate mids and is balanced with a pleasing bottom end! 😎😁😎👊👍
Yep, it definitely has the 60s blues rock thing going on - the cleans are chimey but it doesn't really get fizzy at higher gain, which is great!
Ohh yeaaaah brother 🤘🤘🤘
Awesome video, thanks for sharing. I will have to get one of these for my little Marshall DSL 15C, it's a great little amp held back only by a very ordinary speaker, why they put a 50w Rocket in a small 15w amp is beyond me. 😉👍
Celestion & Marshall are a perfect pairing :-)
I’m another Alnico speaker aficionado. My first good amp was and old AC30 with a pair of Celestion T1088 Silver Alnico speakers. I’ve played this amp for 30 years and then it got stolen. I never found that sound again. Of course the amp itself was also a big part of that sound.
I call myself an Alnico speaker aficionado, because I also like the Alnico Blues and I currently play through a couple of amps with Creambacks. However, I’m not a connoisseur. I don’t know what happened with the T1088 speakers, but I don’t think you can get them anymore, unless you’re lucky enough to find them 2nd hand. And occasionally you will see them pop up at Reverb, but for pretty hefty prices.
Anyway, I absolutely loved the sound you got out of the new Celestion 100’s!
Here’s a question I’ve been wanting to ask you for years now (don’t worry, it’s a harmless question 😬): every time I hear you play I hear old seventies style glam rock. Not just in the sound you get, but also your style of playing. I grew up listening to that stuff and I absolutely loved it and even to this day it’s the sound I’m going for. Is it just a coincidence that you play and sound that way, or did you just listen to that old glam rock and loved it, just like I did?
Sorry, I’m just curious. 😊
It sounds great with all of your variations! Now I know what to expect tone-wise...I ordered a 100 for a 112 cab, and the speaker was unfortunately damaged in transit! But I should have a replacement from the reseller sometime next month.
Ah that sucks!! Hopefully the replacement is quick!
@@JoePerkinsMusic I very well could have been the first customer in the States to get one, and it was (sadly) smashed up! But Sweetwater will take care of me. I don't know how available they are in the UK, but we haven't seen many make it across the Atlantic yet.
@@pjstamm2112 The 16 ohms have been around for a couple of months, but the 8 ohms have only been available for a week or two....no idea why!
@@JoePerkinsMusic In the US it's the exact opposite! The 8's are available right now and a replacement 16 ohm is what I'm waiting for. Mine arrived at least a month ago and I was told that August should be when the new one arrives.
@@pjstamm2112 Guess they went all in and sent them all the 8's to the US, and kept the 16's for us! :P
New Perky Video!
Klick it, like it, watch it, love it!
Loved it with the single coil Gretsch, the Tele and the FiterTron guitar most.
It sounded awesome, but I hope some sort of comparison video is coming up - for perspective and fun of course :)
Aha, thanks mate! Don’t think I’ll do a comparison with this one as they’re the most time intensive videos to do (& precarious - knock a mic and you have to start the whole thing over!) but if you’re interested Zilla Cabs have already made a video comparing it to the Blue 👍
@@JoePerkinsMusic Okay, I get that. Thanks for your effort and the information nonetheless.
Take care and all the best to you!
any good for the bedroom player or just for live performances? using a G12H 75w 8ohm speaker at the mo in a Zilla single cab . thanks
hi joe. sounds great with all your amps and guitars. i have a 1974x and it's hard to decide now between the 100 ,the cream or the ruby. the amp is very bright and chimy so i thought that the ruby could tame that. i love the cream on a hotrod deluxe that i have at work ,how would you describe the differences between the 3 speakers? ive heard that the 100 is more detailed than the cream if that's true it might not work for me on a bright amp. thanks
The Ruby is _very_ dark, so unless you’re running the Treble on zero and it’s still a problem, I’d say the Cream would be more up your street - it has a lot of Alnico trademarks but isn’t as upper-middy as the Blue/Silver/Gold.
@@JoePerkinsMusic thank you! the cream it is. i work on live gigs with backline amps that i loaded with nos tubes and a hotrod with the cream. please do a video about old mullards i61 vs i63 is all most players need at v1 of their marshall or vox. thanks again.
How does this conpare to a Vintage V30?
The speaker sounds great but i've spotted something else, a new Burst.
Have you sold your old burst for this new one?
Hah - well spotted!! Still have my LP Standard but will show off the new one is a video soon (trying to find time to film at the moment is a nightmare!!)
@@JoePerkinsMusic This new Burst sounds a lot better than your old one. It has a very pleasing sound.
Thanks, Joe. The Silver 100 seems versatile from the chiming Ric to the thick SG and never sounded "tubby".. I'm very curious how you expect it to change as it ages. Do you have any insights if brands of speakers have their own characteristic changes after years of use?
Great playing- thanks for taking the time to record this. Where would you position the Silver between the Blue, Gold and Cream in terms of tone and volume?
I'm really into this thing, seems like it brings back the high mids that are missing from the blue, which I think is the reason the blue falls apart with gain. I think this sounds like a blue but holds up under gain, from what few videos exist so far. Any plans for a shootout? A/B with the blue at least anyway?
i like the slight lower mid increase compared to the blue ..more like the baby of a greeny and a blue ..possibly a grail speaker....the price ofcourse is rediculous ..but the 30 watt rating means i dont need 2 for my el 84 pair amps ..
Does someone like The Darkness? 😂 Great demo! I’ve had a G12H Anniversary in my 18w clone for years. I’d put one of these in in an instant if I had the means. (I love The Darkness btw).
Please do a compare OG Silver VS Greenback
Do you like it more then Fane A60 in AC30 like amps?
For the classic Vox chime, yes...A60 works great for an alternative voice though :-)
Great Job! I think this speakers sounds awesome. How does it compare to the Scumback SC-75PVC?
Thanks :-) Definitely has a lot more of the old school ‘clang’ and bite to it than the Scumback - that was a more woody, less forward-sounding speaker.
Hey Joe! Great video as usual but I have a question regarding your current opinion on the Celestion Ruby Alnico. 4 years ago you did an in depth video on it and you were of the opinion that it was a very good speaker with a slightly warmer tone than the other Celestion Alnicos. Why has your opinion changed on it so dramatically ?
Hi mate - I think the point I was (clunkily!) trying to get across is that the Ruby is very different to the Blue, Gold and Cream. It _is_ capable of some decent sounds (as per that video) but you really have to push things to the extreme to get it to sound close to a classic AlNiCo. Yes it has it's place, and it _is_ a very good speaker for those specific places it can get you/to tame a bright amp/etc, but as a 'typical' AlNiCo speaker there's plenty of others I'd choose to give me that sound before the Ruby. 👍
Well crap. That's burning a hole in my pocket.
It’s just so expensive!
Over 400 Bucks for a Speaker 😮 wuuuhh
Yeah, they're not priced to be wallet friendly, it seems!
The supply is weak. I will eventually get the dozen or so that I need. I have about a dozen of the old ones, and a dozen of the reproduction that came out along with the Marshall JTM Offset cabinets. Those reproduction speakers were rated 15 to 25 Watts, depending upon which cabinet you referenced, and looked pretty similar to the one you have there. Most of the time I run bigger motors, Fane Axioms and Jensen Blackbirds, and I have all the ancient ones in 32 Ohm cabinets so I can stack up enough cones to survive with use.
Who cares when you can get a Jensen Blackbird 100 or a WGS Blackhawk 100, both in the vein of the Altec 417 or the EVM12SRO?
i wouldn't put any more than 20 watts through that speaker.
How come?
@@JoePerkinsMusic because one of those speakers costs 400 bucks; and because Same watt, to Same watt, I Have Blown Speakers.
@@JoePerkinsMusic I heard one guy say Amp watt + 10 watts is as low a wattage speaker as anyone should run ... I heard that AFTER I blew my speakers, and of course that made sense to me at that point.
like if I had enough money, I would get a Suhr Badger 18, and the 1x12, and put the 100 in that...that's a 15 watt amp, but I would at least be comfortable doing that.
@@JoePerkinsMusic besides, the 100 is an extremely loud speaker ... loud enough that you could do a gig with 15 watts cranked through it.
You know what is consistently disappointing is that so many videos like this stay too diplomatic and don’t give their own real opinion. Leaving it up to us that are watching and listening through our phones, iPads or whatever aren’t hearing what you are in the room. I realize that it is subjective but we are at such a disadvantage.
I think perhaps that is the difference between a 'demo' and a 'review' - and whilst inevitably being a mixture of both, I see this channel as primarily being one that demos. I try to show exactly how a piece of gear sounds in a variety of different situations so that people can make their own informed decisions, rather than trying to tell the viewer what they _should_ think about it. And when you've spent £300 on a speaker (for example) there will always be a bias of me _wanting_ to like it, so 'just' showing how it sounds largely removes that from the angle. Either way, I do share some opinions in the Outro at 16:05 if you're curious.
@@JoePerkinsMusic Thanks Joe. Makes sense. 👍🏼
Thank you Joe for demoing this speaker. It sounds like I thought it would...great. I'm just curious about the material of the cone, I wonder if Celestion has manufactured this cone for a new standard of speaker? We're both on the Gear Page, and a rep from Celestion/Korg annouced that the Pulsonic cone has been duplicated, but as far as mass production? I'm selling my pair of Scumnico 30 watt Alnicos to get these 100 Anniversary Speakers. And I love original Pulsonic cones too, but at 2025, I think it's too risky to buy them, I'm hoping Celestion will reintrouce the Greenbacks this coming year? Have you heard anything about them in the pipeline? Thanks Again