Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 22:32:24 -0700 From: "John Kally" Subject: RE: amps with 15 inch speakers
Hi guys, My own experience with 15" speaker amps includes a couple of tweed pros (a 55 and a 58, both sounded great with a Jensen P15N speaker, I believe, and why I sold them is a mystery), a brown 63 Pro with a ceramic 15 that didn't really sound as good at least to me, and most recently a 1951 Bassman (the single 15 version, also had a P15N The 51 Bassman was a really rich sounding amp, unfortunately not enough power without mic'ing. I took it to a blues jam with Bill Tarsha and the Rocket 88s, and as sometimes happens the amp is now his ( I did wind up with his 61 white tolex Twin in trade). One of the other guys in town uses 15" Delta Blues Peavey amp but I've never tried that one. Some of the 15" speaker amps around today , besides bass amps, were designed for steel guitar players (I'm thinking of the Peavey Nashville amps but there are others), and generally have pretty massive speakers ; the JBL is an example of a speaker made to be played loud without breakup and not a particularly useful harp speaker for blues use, but maybe there is someone out there that has had good results.
