Here's a rough-looking, but glorious-sounding Goldentone speaker box dating from the mid to late 1960s.

It is loaded with its original 16ohm alnico magnet 15 inch speaker, which I conservatively estimate would be rated around 50 to 60 watts. I have never heard of the brand identified on a sticker on the speaker (see the 'more pictures' link below), which is Universal Sound Products. They may have been the sellers, rather than the makers, of the speaker - if anyone can help with any details, I'll gratefully accept!

It's an extremely well-built speaker, and sounds great. It's very efficient, but also lovely and warm in true alnico fashion.

The box has two inputs in parallel - a standard 1/4 inch jack, and also a Goldentone 8-pin (octal valve) socket, so you can use it with any valve head requiring a 16ohm load. The wells on the top of the box accept the rubber feet of Goldentone Bassmaster and Reverbmaster 40watt heads, but there is no reverb tank fitted to this box (Goldentones had their reverb tanks in the speaker box, not the amp heads, and were automatically connected with 3 of the 8pins on the plug when a Goldentone head was plugged in).

The box measures 74cm(H) x 60cm(W) x 30cm(D), and weighs just under 27kg. Shipped dimensions and weight will be slightly higher.

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$595AUD (plus shipping)