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Post subject: '70 (?) Bassman 1 X 15 cab
Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2018 3:33 am
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This german gentleman is looking for more information about is Bassman 1 X 15 cabinet

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Hi Guys,

Hope you can help me. I have been trying to find information about the following cabinet for some time:
Bassman Speaker Eclosure 1x15, Serial F059454, 8 ohms.

Maybe you can help?
I would be interested in what a speaker was installed as standard and how much the part of your estimation is worth today.
Is that good as a cabinet for guitar?

A heartfelt thank you!


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Post subject: Re: '70 (?) Bassman 1 X 15 cab
Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2018 8:40 am
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Sorry not much help. The only thing I found on it was the name change in '77, renaming it from the Bassman 50 to the 70 and likewise from the 100 to the 135. Most likely Oxford, Utah or Jensen branded speakers while JBL was still the standard upgrade I believe.


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Post subject: Re: '70 (?) Bassman 1 X 15 cab
Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2018 9:43 am
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sfceric64 wrote:
Most likely Oxford, Utah or Jensen branded speakers while JBL was still the standard upgrade I believe.


Fender and Jensen parted company by 1967 and Oxford was supplanted by Utah in the early/mid '70s. For the cabinet in question, my money's on an Eminence, CTS, or Rola.

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Post subject: Re: '70 (?) Bassman 1 X 15 cab
Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2018 5:05 am
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Thank's Sferic64 and Retroverbial

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Post subject: Re: '70 (?) Bassman 1 X 15 cab
Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2018 11:30 am
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Addressing the gentleman's question as to the enclosure's suitability as a guitar cab, I'd guess probably not. It's a folded-horn design, tuned for an extremely low resonant frequency (somewhere in the neighborhood of 45 to 55 Hz). As such it'll be relatively "boomy", with little top end and only marginal mids. A speaker change to a guitar-specific driver *might* help but I doubt it will ever deliver the punch necessary to really cut through a mix.

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Post subject: Re: '70 (?) Bassman 1 X 15 cab
Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2018 8:48 am
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Arjay, remember a kid in HS that used his Dad's old folded Klipsch horn, as a cab. He stuffed the passageways with rags --- got a pretty good tone from it. IIRC, Bandmaster head. 15-inch full-range Altec.

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Post subject: Re: '70 (?) Bassman 1 X 15 cab
Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2018 9:03 am
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Indeed. Blanking off or reducing the size of the port would raise the resonant frequency accordingly. The folded horn would effectively become a bass reflex enclosure.

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