Ceramic Vs Alnico Speakers

So we often hear.

Ceramic vs alnico speakers.

Bass in my dreams where i m 24 have roadies and am playing arenas. Mark bartel the designer engineer for the tone king imperial feels that it is a mid range issue and not a ceramic vs. Alnico is nice and warm and great for blues. Gotta say my new new to me anyway swr golight 15s have been a real pleasant surprise.

Ceramics do not alnico speaker breakup quicker that ceramic i e. Neo all the way. The most common type of ceramic magnet is strontium ferrite which demagnetizes much less easily than alnico. Let s listen to how they sound.

Ceramic is the cheapest and most common material. Whereas ceramic is used in metal as it sounds tight loud and cool. During the 1960s the popularity of speakers with ceramic magnets increased. Alnico is commonly thought to produce the most vintage tone and has a reputation for sounding compressed.

Alnico speakers compress at high volumes. The domains change state much faster so there is little to no compression as the voice coil moves to its mechanical limit. Ceramic bass in the real club world where i m 50 years old. You often hear that the sound of a pickup is dominated by the choice of magnet used in its construction.

Ceramic speaker have more headroom ceramic speakers tend to have smoother breakup alnico speaker sound warmer and slightly darker. Really like the ceramic jensens. What s the difference between ceramic alnico magnet pickups. I haven t liked most neo speakers.