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Post subject: a speaker for my TV Fifteen?
Posted: Wed May 14, 2014 1:37 am
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Hi!
Got a big issue with my bassman TV fifteen amp. The speaker died. Here is the problem: The bassman Tv serie is ended. That means there's no more production of the accessories and elements you're usually able to find at your dealer or at the After selling service. The original speaker for this amp was a Celestion BL15-400X in 4Ohms, a specific speaker only built for this serie of fender amps. Celestion doesn't have it in stock, and will not build just one for me. (The usual celestion of this size, materials and power is the BL15-400X in 8Ohms).
I've twice contacted fender support about this issue, it's been more than a month now, and I still got no answer.
What frightening me, is that if the TV fifteen is no more build by fender, the specific speaker will not be ordered to celestion. Means that I'm pretty dead on this. If I have to wait that enough TV fifteen owners may loose their speaker for an order to be done, I'll have a ZZ-top beard before hearing my amp again.

Did someone had a similar issue?
Is there some electric super hero who knows an equivalent speaker (I mean, not just the size and specs... I loved the sound of this speaker)?
Or just a little advice?

Thanks!
Laurent.


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Post subject: Re: a speaker for my TV Fifteen?
Posted: Wed May 14, 2014 2:41 am
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Have you given any thought to merely having your broken speaker repaired?

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Post subject: Re: a speaker for my TV Fifteen?
Posted: Wed May 14, 2014 5:14 am
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If you can get Eminence products, buy a CA154. The only relevant spec that significantly departs from the BL15-400X is Qts, but it's lower, not higher -- 0.49 vs 0.59 -- and since this is a vented cab, the difference may actually turn out to be an asset. The CA154 should work fine in that cab and may even sound better than the Celestion did.

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Post subject: Re: a speaker for my TV Fifteen?
Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2014 3:21 pm
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The Celestion Neo model number BN 15-400S is a 4 Ohm 400 watt speaker which might fare better with the 350 watt power of the TV Fifteen than a 300 watt capacity Eminence Legend 4 Ohm. Check avatarspeakers.com and scroll down the home page. They have some of the Celestion Neo 15's in 4 Ohm listed there. I like this speaker and have the 8 Ohm version in an Avatar cab right now. It will also be lighter by a few pounds than the stock speaker. Mine sounds very lush and nobody ever said, "Hey that sounds like a Neo," because it sounds great!


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