ELI5 - Handwired Cabs
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fitz
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I've had the same thought.
I can envision an assembly line populating an amp pcb before it gets wave soldered, but I find it hard to believe that a robot is hooking up speakers to a jack
Eric'45
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... And the next minute it has some malfunction and thrusts a soldering Iron or a spade conector into the membrane
But seriously, there is no magic in Cabinet wiring. Some run- of the mill Cabs use some pretty flimsy wire, and The dreaded Marshall PCBs for the Stereo switches are known to go bad sometimes, but apart from that...
I have replaced said flimsy wiring in one of my 1960s, but I haven't noticed a difference.
67plexi
Ambassador of Amps
It's not Cabinet wiring. hardware metal handles grill cloth and speakers no plastic corners vintage style
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Marshall 1960AHW Handwired 120-Watt 4x12
The Marshall 1960AHW is a handwired, angled 4x12 speaker cabinet designed as the matching enclosure for the Marshall 1959HW amplifier head. Based on Marshall's classic 1960s cabinet design, it pairs traditional UK construction with salt-and-pepper grille cloth and a quartet of Celestion G12H-30...
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PelliX
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What Fitz and Eric said, honestly. At face value it's ridiculous, but I *think* it basically means "PCB-less", so no board inside. In a guitar cab there typically aren't any crossover filters and such, so the only thing boards are ever used for is switching (single/both speakers, series/parallel, etc).
PelliX
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The term "handwired" obviously has nothing to do with the grill cloth or handles. See my previous post and the specs on the link you posted:
"Impedance: 16Ω Mono"
There's no switching.
Eric'45
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It makes perfect sense for that particular Cabinet. That is meant to go with a Handwired Head, and has the appropriate specs.It's not Cabinet wiring. hardware metal handles grill cloth and speakers no plastic corners vintage style
Marshall 1960AHW Handwired 120-Watt 4x12
The Marshall 1960AHW is a handwired, angled 4x12 speaker cabinet designed as the matching enclosure for the Marshall 1959HW amplifier head. Based on Marshall's classic 1960s cabinet design, it pairs traditional UK construction with salt-and-pepper grille cloth and a quartet of Celestion G12H-30...
It is part of the "Handwired Series" of Marshall products, so to speak.
PelliX
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Yes but the styling of the "handwired" heads is identical, the 1959, etc. This is just an optional 'look', not really related specifically to a 'series', I'd say.
Now you're talking about "hardwired". That's logical, no? Hard-wiring something implies it's not switchable...
I'll explain. This is the board you find in a typical 1960 cab:
There's a switch for what they call Mono/Stereo operation. I find that a poor choice of terms, but it basically splits the cab in half with each input yielding a different impedence to both sides combined in parallel. When using a the "Mono" input you can select the desired impedence.
Make sense?
Eric'45
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It seems to me the Cabs with "HW" have unique cosmetics. and Speakers
While the normal 1960AX have G12M 25W Greenbacks, I believe there were G12H 30 Watt Greenbacks at least in some in some HW Cabs- weren't they even exclusive to them?
Does yours have the G12H30 Speakers @67plexi ? The 100 Badge would imply that.
PelliX
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Sure it's more than just optics, agree. The point I was making, was more than they don't belong to a specific series of amp. In fact, at 100W nominal rating they're not really a good match for any 100W amp.