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Alnico Celestion Blue: General Specifications

The Celestion Blue speaker is a 12-inch guitar speaker originally used in Vox AC30 amplifiers. It has a pressed steel chassis, alnico magnet, and produces a warm, mellow tone with a brilliant top end, making it favored by guitarists like Brian May. The Blue is renowned for its dampened attack, rich definition, and beautiful compression when driven hard, cementing its status as a benchmark for guitar speaker perfection according to tone enthusiasts.

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Alnico Celestion Blue: General Specifications

The Celestion Blue speaker is a 12-inch guitar speaker originally used in Vox AC30 amplifiers. It has a pressed steel chassis, alnico magnet, and produces a warm, mellow tone with a brilliant top end, making it favored by guitarists like Brian May. The Blue is renowned for its dampened attack, rich definition, and beautiful compression when driven hard, cementing its status as a benchmark for guitar speaker perfection according to tone enthusiasts.

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Alnico

Celestion Blue

General Specifications
Nominal diameter
Power rating
Nominal impedance
Sensitivity
Chassis type

12", 305mm
15Wrms
Available 8 or 15
100dB
Pressed steel

Voice coil diameter

1.75", 44.5mm

Voice coil material

Round copper

Magnet type
Frequency range
Resonance frequency, Fs
DC resistance, Re

Alnico
75-5000Hz
75Hz
Available 6.4 or 11.8

Mounting Information
This classic guitar speaker actually started life as a radio speaker that

Cut-out diameter

11.1", 283mm

was modified specifically for use in electric guitar amplifiers. In its

Diameter

12.2", 309mm

original incarnation as the G12 T530 it appeared in several colour

Magnet structure diameter

variations, but it was the Blue version, fitted as standard into Vox AC30

Mounting slot dimensions

amps, that secured its place in guitar tone history.

Mounting slot PCD


Number of mounting slots

The Blue found favour with notable guitarists like Brian May, due to its

Overall depth

glorious dampened attack, warm lows, mellow upper-mids and brilliant

Unit weight

5.0", 128mm
0.31", 7.9mm
11.7", 297mm
4
6.5", 165mm
9.3lb, 4.2kg

bell-like top-end. When coupled with a suitable amplifier it evokes rich


definition and develops beautiful musical compression when pushed.
According to tone enthusiasts worldwide, the Blue is the benchmark for
guitar speaker perfection.
8 Frequency Response

Celestion, Claydon Business Park, Great Blakenham, Ipswich, IP6 0NL United Kingdom

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