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Words Of Wisdom From A Professional Who Knows
From Jerry Garcia Interview , Guitar Player, July 1988
How much do your speakers matter?
They're like your strings. You have to change them pretty regularly or you start to get "wet" sound. They're also the most weather sensitive of anything. If you are playing in a wet climate, all of a sudden that cardboard turns to paper-mâché. Then you have some real soggy sound coming out.
Speakers notice all those subtle changes in pressure that are functions of and a change in humidity-they're the most sensitive. That's what is finally producing the sound that everybody hears when you're playing an electric guitar. So they're like strings. You have to be real careful with them. You have to listen to them real carefully and notice if they're dying out on you. And I can fry a speaker in no time flat. I can kill'em. I have a lot of speakers on stage and I try not to run them too loud because I hate blowing them.