Marshall MR1960TV

This cab really made my day!
It´s a few centmeters taller then the normal 1960 cabs and this make it look massive!

I put two Celestion V30 speakers in it right away and got just the sound I wanted from my Mesa Mark IV!
I also compared it to both the ENGL and the MESA cabs and can´t in any way say that those two are worth the pricetag when you can get this for almost half the price.

So if you want a cab with that little extra go and pick this badboy up!

Highly recomendes this cab for anyone that is going to play rock or metal.

It's easy to think "pfft what's an extra 8cm in the vertical realm, that isn't even the length of my iPhone 13 Mini", but when I put it next to my 1960AV I was amazed by how much taller it is and how much bigger it appears. When I did some measurements prior to purchasing it, I concluded that the 1960TV with a 1987x on top should be ~the same height as the 1960AV with a JCM800 on top.
But nope, the 1960TV/1987x half stack is taller. Truly a monster of a cab!

Enough about that, it's not the size but how you use it, right? I had a run through with 8 brand new Greenbacks last autumn in my 1960BV cabinet, and not one single speaker sounded truly amazing mic'd up. Not sure if it's the cabinet itself or that Celestion utilize tighter QC for speakers they send off to Marshall, but the 1960TV sounded like a finished recording straight out of the box, with just a single 57 in front of it. I considered mixing the G12Ms with some G12H 75hz Heritage's, but there's no way I'm touching anything. The G12Ms are extremely versatile, balanced sounding speakers that work with pretty much any amp - from clean to metal high gain.

Compared to the G12V "Marshall Vintage's" in my 1960AV, the Greenbacks in the 1960TV are a bit warmer and more balanced, not pushing the upper mids as much as the center and lower mids. This is the first time I’ve experienced liking two different sounding speakers about equally, because there's nothing nasty or harsh with any of them - and while being distinctively vintage and modern, they are also interchangeable for the majority of purposes. The G12M might have a slight edge on versatility because it's more neutral/even, but if you want a more Vox/Alnico-esque upper mid bite in your clean and edge of breakup tones the G12V does a better job.

Just a small fun fact to wrap up the review: this and the 1960AV are the first cabs and speakers (out of *many*) where I can take the "put the mic where the dust cap meets the cone" advice at face value. I say that because in the past this placement has always been way too bright, and sometimes I had to move the mic so it wouldn’t even see the dust cap. Does it matter? I have never been able to get as good recorded tones as I do now, so I believe it does.

Seit nicht ganz zwei Jahren besitze ich die Marshall Mr 1960 TV und ich bin mit der Box sehr, sehr zufrieden.

Zunächst einmal das unwichtige Äußere: hier stimmt alles, wie in der guten alten Zeit der 60er und 70er Jahre.Die Box ist "tall", also etwa 8 cm höher als eine Standard Box. Dafür bietet sie den Sound und den Druck einer geraden Marshall Box. Wir Gitarristen sind mitunter schon komische Wesen, denn wir finden in der Regel eine schräge 4/12 Box irgendwie "cooler", obwohl die gerade Schwestern eigentlich mehr Sound und Druck - bedingt durch das etwas größere Gehäuse - bieten. Hier hat man nun den Sound und die Optik.

Kommen wir nun zu den wirklich entscheidenen Features: Die Box ist klasse verarbeitet, absolut roadtauglich und - by the way - bietet einen fantastischen Vintage Marshall Sound, der von den G12M/25 Watt Greenback Lautsprechern musikalisch und luftig übertragen wird. Wer auf die klassischen Marshall Sounds der 60er und frühen 70er Jahre aus ist, sollte hier möglichst in Verbindung mit einem einkanaligen Vintage Amp aus gleichem Haus zuschlagen. Mit großer Wahrscheinlichkeit findet man hier das berühmte Teil für die Ewigkeit. Natürlich ist die Box auch in Kombination mit moderen High-Gain Amps zu gebrauchen, meiner Meinung nach ist dieses Feld, also High und Nu Metal Sounds, nicht die wirkliche Stärke. Die vintage-typischen klaren und crunchy Sounds sind so toll und machen innerhalb kurzer Zeit süchtig.

Sicherlich ist diese Box nicht "everybody's darling", aber wer die Schönheit des Sounds, den diese Box reproduzieren kann, entdeckt, wird zuschlagen. Also, liebe Leute, ran an die Box!