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Posted by Deafcat1964 from Wherever the bus stops on Oct 30, 2009
Experience w/product: I own it
Reviewer's Background: Veteran Active Musician & Sound Engineer
Reviewer's Play Style: All of it!
I chose this to pair with a Texas Heat for the D***le style amp I just built. I can't say enough about it. The amp has a unique "vocal" quality and this, paired with the Texas Heat, sound amazing. Tight bass with no overwhelming boominess. Perfectly smooth midrange and a bright top end. The mids are the defining character of these beauties. They perfectly comliment the quality of the amp's voice like "singing" midrange. I had Celestions of varying models to try but not one of them came close to the quality of construction and were very "cheap" sounding by comparison. I am a 26+ year, performing veteran of bar, festival and fair shows, as well as building and repairing tube amps. I wish I would have found these years ago.
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Tight bottom with big gain crunch!!!
Posted by Jason DePaul from Fresno, Ca on Jul 31, 2009
Experience w/product: I own it
Reviewer's Background: Active Musician
Reviewer's Play Style: Christian Metal
I dropped this speaker into a Peavey Valveking 112 and it transformed a lower end tube amp into a high-gain metal monster! The stock VK speaker is dark and muddy with no clarity with high gain. The Man o War has everything you could want! Super clear highs, but can be piercing at times which isn't a problem if you have an EQ, but the mids are pristine and the bottom end is huge, tight and crunchy! There's also a VERY noticeable volume boost! If you want a great Metal sound you want this speaker!
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Crushing Metal Tones!!
Posted by Jason Dalton(Temple of God) from Max Meadows, Va on Jul 23, 2009
Experience w/product: I own it
Reviewer's Background: Active Musician
Reviewer's Play Style: Metal
First I would like to say thanks to Eminence for creating these awesome speakers! I replaced the 4 speakers I had in my custom built birch cabinets and the "new sound" was simply amazing. I was well pleased by the sound of distortion with "full" bottom and surprised that no matter how much gain or bass input I used, the clarity stayed. The clean sounds were also phenomenal , and I really enjoyed "tweaking" in my own sound choices. No matter what effect or how much drive I used, the end result was always clean and shimmering or punchy and brutal. A serious "horns up" to the Man O War speakers, like the metal band of the same name, they kill!
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BUY THEM
Posted by mc110 from Milwaukee, WI on Jul 4, 2009
Experience w/product: I own it
Reviewer's Background: Touring Musician
Reviewer's Play Style: Mostly Metal
I bought these to replace the weak stock speakers in the Marshall MG cabinet. Playing out of the Line 6 Spidervalve head....These speakers are awesome, they will not let you down. I researched these speakers and found hardly any reviews but after looking at the spec sheet, they are almost the exact same as the Celestions but better in every aspect. I purchased them with low expectations because how is it possible there's a better speaker out there than the Celestions for wayyyy cheaper, They blow those things out of the water. The magnets on these things are massive, the only downfall to the speakers are heavy they are and that's not even a problem LOL!
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If the famous battle vessel were a speaker...
Posted by Kris from Florida on Mar 6, 2009
Experience w/product: I own it
Reviewer's Background: Active Musician
Reviewer's Play Style: Classic/Progressive Hard Rock
I picked out this speaker to replace the Eminence Legends in my 4x12 cabinet. I was looking for something that would produce a tighter, less boomy low end. I had read a lot of good reviews on the Man O War so I went with the hype. Needless to say I was not disappointed. I even went an extra mile and combined two Man O Wars with two Red White and Blues, criss-crossing the two types in the cabinet. The first time I tested them out, I immediately noticed a huge improvement in clarity and attack. I think the main differences of note with the Man O Wars are a more powerful, cleaner low end, plus an added shimmer to the top end frequencies, with no unwanted distortion whatsover at high volumes. The two RWAB's, meanwhile, take care of the mid-range frequencies, smoothening them out quite nicely. To give a basic idea of my setup, I play through an old 120watt Peavey Rock Master tube head, so there is already plenty of power to go around. The Man O Wars simply throw even more aggression and power into the mix, while articulating just the right frequencies to produce a nice full sound. In all, it is more than worthy of its name.
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