Originally Posted by: PRSplayaOut of those 5 clips, my favorite one was the G12H-30. I didn't like the Classic 80 at all. Second favorite was the Vintage 30. That's not to say that those speakers would sound good with your amp though. Different amps react differently with different speakers. I don't know anything about your amp, so I can't make a good suggestion. Maybe Lats can hop in, since he's our resident Ampeg guru.

P.S. Welcome to the site!

Thank you...

One thing I forgot to mention in my first post: my reason for deciding between the CL 80 and the V 30 was power handling -- I'm nervous about going down to a 25 or 30 watt rated speaker running off of a pair of 7591s, which I think are capable of dissipating about 20 watts each. Otherwise I might seriously consider something along the lines of a Greenback for the amp. But I was looking to go at least 50 watts of handling on the speaker just to play it safe. If the amp were 2-12 it would be a completely different ballgame.

Funny thing is that the original Jensen doesn't look like all that meaty of a speaker in terms of power -- the number stamped on the rim looks like either "C12-B" or "C12-8" (hard for me to make out the last character, as the ink slightly runs off the edge of the frame). But it has a fairly small magnet that doesn't appear to be enough for the volume that this amp seems to be capable of generating. I'm replacing it mainly because I don't want to damage it, due to its age. Mabye Ampeg undersized it thinking that this GU-12 was going to be a "practice" amp used at lower volumes mostly, or just out of cost issues. (?)

C.K.