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[wrobelsparrow]

Lots of confusion out there about wattages of Vintage 30s and Chinese vs. English manufacturing.

As for Mesa and its labeling, we have for years labeled our cabs as using V30s that are 70 watt handling capable and nearly any V30 built in the last 20 years is indeed plenty capable of a 70 watt handling capacity.

However, in the last year or so, in an effort to have our info consistent with the Celestion website, we've changed some of our literature to reflect a 60 watt handling capacity but haven't completely phased in new stickers for the back of the cabs quite yet. That's in process but while that's the case, there will still be some cabs out there that say 140 watts for 2x12 V30 cabs.

Wattage handling capacity is, in Boogie's view, a very vague reference to a generally misunderstood and much deeper concept. While we would suggest that there's not much issue to having 10 watts handling capacity more or less on either side when referring to Vintage 30s, the REAL subject for TONE is Chinese vs. English made.

Mesa continues to have our Vintage 30s made to our specs in Ipswich, England. We pay a premium for said speakers and do so because we feel they sound better than their current (and original) production from China. It's not something we broadcast out of respect for Celestion and ultimately, because we feel the speakers speak for us and the amps that get played through them. :wink:

Any amp can only sound as good as the speakers they are played through.

Hope this helps.

AB