Ceramic Vs Alnico Speakers

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Ceramic vs alnico speakers.

During the 1960s the popularity of speakers with ceramic magnets increased. Let s listen to how they sound. Whereas ceramic is used in metal as it sounds tight loud and cool. 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.

So we often hear. Ceramic bass in the real club world where i m 50 years old. 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. You often hear that the sound of a pickup is dominated by the choice of magnet used in its construction.

Ceramic speaker have more headroom ceramic speakers tend to have smoother breakup alnico speaker sound warmer and slightly darker. Ceramics do not alnico speaker breakup quicker that ceramic i e. Alnico is nice and warm and great for blues. The most common type of ceramic magnet is strontium ferrite which demagnetizes much less easily than alnico.

Ceramic is the cheapest and most common material. The domains change state much faster so there is little to no compression as the voice coil moves to its mechanical limit. Neo all the way. I haven t liked most neo speakers.

Bass in my dreams where i m 24 have roadies and am playing arenas. Gotta say my new new to me anyway swr golight 15s have been a real pleasant surprise. Alnico speakers compress at high volumes. Really like the ceramic jensens.