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B-stock speakers - beware!


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I really should have known... I bought a B-stock Eminence Gamma 12" a while back from a well-known electronics chain (the one that sounds like it should be a holiday camp). A brand new 12" Gamma for £25 which is pretty fair, looked just fine apart from some scratches on the chassis and the magnet label.

Well finally I got round to using it and it seemed to work great, but when I cranked the amp got some horrible vibration at higher volume levels, so took it out for a close look and the base of the verdamnt chassis is warped! So I have spent a fair part of the evening very carefully tapping it back into a sensible shape, seems to look ok and in the brief high-volume test I can get away in a flat with sounded ok too but I won't know for sure until I gig the darn thing on Sunday afternoon...

I think there may be a lesson in all this about B-stock speakers!

ficelles

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Too long in the past for a claim I fear (I think I bought it in 2008 and it's sat in the cupboard until now), however I gigged it a festival on Sunday and the chassis-hammering exercise seems to have worked as it sounded fine. Not sure it would handle a 5-string but I guess I'll use it until it fails and consider it a lesson...

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