Speaker for the Mesa Mark V: 35??? Any thoughts???

[Scuba200ft]

I use mine in a 4x12 Marshall 1960BX with greenbacks and I couldn't be happier.

 

[pmac11]

Eminence Swamp Thang. Or a Tone Tubby GMC.

 

[little-b]

When I was runnin the mk35 out live,I plugged into 2- 4x12 diezel cabs w/ vintage 30s and never looked back. I loved how that tiny 35 could move some air! ( cream back 65s would be a good choice too).

 

[Justblues]

I use the C90 and like it.

 

[KRichter]

post is from 7 years ago. I like the EM12 Legend with a Shadow in a 2/12 cab.

 

[woodbutcher65]

Knowing this is a necro thread....the only way to pick speakers is by trying them. Fortunately most speakers hold their value pretty well on the used market so you can buy and sell used speakers on reverb and basically get your money back out of them and you're only out shipping costs.

 

[Markedman]

Speaker? Two speakers or more, IMO, are the only way to go, especially at lower volume.

 

[Markedman]

The sound combining two Celestion G12–75’s in an open back cabinet along with a EVM 12 L loaded Thiele cabinet sounded the best.

I have Celestion C90s, old 1974 Celestion Creambacks, a boogie Fillmore 75 which is highly recommended and mojotone 25 aged speakers that I tried.

Mesa Boogie mark 535 by John Bazzano, on Flickr

 

[Markedman]

After playing through all my different cabinets, I chose this Boogie Thiele design with an EVM12L speaker. It has the best all-around tone at moderate volume and was much smoother sounding than all the others.

Mesa Boogie Mark V35 & Boogie EVM12L Thiele designed cabinet by John Bazzano, on Flickr

 

[BMW-KTM]

I've never been able to bond with the V30, although I do admit they sound a tad better in a closed back cab then in an open back combo. I bought a pair of them a few years ago after reading all the raves online and tried them in all three of the amps I had at the time. I ended up selling them. I like something with a little wider tone. The V30s were too narrowly focussed for my taste.

 

[mace]

I've never been able to bond with the V30, although I do admit they sound a tad better in a closed back cab then in an open back combo. I bought a pair of them a few years ago after reading all the raves online and tried them in all three of the amps I had at the time. I ended up selling them. I like something with a little wider tone. The V30s were too narrowly focussed for my taste.

What speaker did you end up settling on?

 

[BMW-KTM]

What speaker did you end up settling on?

If you are referring to my other thread on here about trying to make the Mark V 35 louder I'm still deciding.
I'm not normally much of a fan of Eminence drivers but from what I've been discovering in my learnings they do seem to make some fairly efficient ones. The search does still continue.

If you are referring to those 3 other amps I used to have that I mentioned here in this thread, I ended up putting the stock speakers back in 2 of them. For the Rivera that was the G12T75 and for the Blues Junior I stuck the original Special Design back in it because I was soon offloading the amp due to my unending frustration trying to shed it of that boxy sound. For the Tweed Deluxe I ended up with a Weber but I forget which one. I spoke to a Weber guy on the phone for a recommendation and told him I wanted the amp to do the heavy lifting and the speaker should break up as little as possible. The only thing I remember about that one was that it was ceramic and fairly heavy and I was pretty happy with it as I got more usable headroom and volume out of it. I still have that amp but my buddy is borrowing it otherwise I'd look in the back and tell you what speaker it has.