Allot those plexi guys and vintage amp hounds don't want to beat the crap outta there old speakers on the road and save the vintage cabs for studio.Original pulsonic coned greenback Celestions sound waaaayyy warmer than the Reissue greenbacks for instance.So rather than risk blowing up an expensive vintage speaker that cannot be replaced,they do weird voodoo rituals to try and make some readily available speakers sound the way they want.
Like I said guitar is a whole differant world really.look at the amount of time invested in building distortion units,the main thing that is avoided in pro audio.
With guitar there is more than just sound involved there is feel of the amplified instrument and that comes from the sum of the whole rig from guitar-pedals-amp-tubes-transformers-speakers-cabs and how they react.
Not trying to be a ball breaker I know you know speaker design more than I ever will.I'm just sayin guitar players have a focused zoomed in idea of what they want there guitar to sound like in there head and if the "real thing" is impractical you do what you can to modify what you can get,to sound like it.
Ask any crazy that spends $1200+ for a quad of Genalex KT88s
And then go talk to a "hi-fi" guy about what they "think" they are doing with various "tweaks".
Just as proof that they are not hearing what they "think" they are-consider this.
I have worked with lots of touring musicians over the years. MANY times they will ask for me to change something in their monitor-AND BEFORE I can get my hand to the tone or volume control they say "That's good".
SO WHAT CHANGED? Me putting my hand near the knob? i don't think so-i can't hold it there the whole show---------------
Or the fact that THEY THINK something happened. The mind/ear is real easy to fool when it comes to audio.
Just do this for yourself. Play a track through a channel on a console. Now hit the mute button on and off and listen real hard for how the sound "changes". Often you will swear that something has changed.
So what do you do now? How do you make the switch have that particular "sound".
I'm just saying that just becasue somebody DOES SOMETHING does NOT mean that anything really happened.
But if you believe it did-then I guess it did.
So we have people that are being fooled by nothing and they are spreading that "foolishness".
Yes some things make a difference-others don't. You need FACT to separate the two.