Post by PtI am considering putting one in a Deluxe Reverb reissue.
Goal is best clean with no distortion.
What do you think of them?
I have not heard one. I have an Eminence Red White & Blues that I
really like in my Mesa Lone Star Special. This does a good job in
this amp of balancing cleans and slightly overdriven sounds without
being too bright or too dark.
The Tonker should have a very pronounced British (Celestion type)
sound. It has a noticeable 6 dB notch at 1.4 kHz and quite a high
frequency hump from 1.8 kHz to around 5 kHz. This speaker will sound
even more British with a deeper notch than the Governor (which is close
to a Vintage 30 sound), but brighter.
Personally, I think the Eminence Patriot series speakers are a better
match to the DR for good cleans, but this is entirely subjective. I
would go even farther and suggest that you might like an old JBL D-120
for the ultimate clean sound.
If you have an idea of the frequency response of the speaker you now
have in the amp, and what you like or don't like about it, then check
out the frequency response plots at the Eminence web site to get an
idea of which speakers would sound brighter or darker, with heavier or
lighter bass and mids compared to what you've got.
If you can't narrow down the choice, you will just have to buy one and
try it. You can always sell it on e-bay.