Purchased a 12 inch Neo Creamback for a New Marshall DSL-20.
Bought it mainly to reduce weight of the amp.
The original speaker is Ok, but mixed reports of some liking the speaker and some not.
There is a big difference in the price of the OEM speaker and the Neo.
From the time playing at home, the Neo sounds great, and many reports of Marshall users praise the speaker.

Used with different amps that go from a
Matchless DC30 (with a 2x12 Cabinet by Stoneage), XTC 101B ....and a Redplate Magic Dust Duo and this speaker delivers the goods.

I installed this in a Marshal 20W combo. This replaced the stock 70/80 speaker. Both are 16 ohms. I liked the 70/80 overall. I thought the bass was pretty good. A little flubby when played harder than I ever play but good at lower volumes like I play. The high end sizzled or fizzed at the brighter settings of the American Strat I use most often. I thought the midrange was a bit over powering. The tone just didn't feel quite right.

On youtube I thought the NEO creamback sounded a little better than the ceramic Creemback for whatever that is worth. So I ordered the NEO. Sweetwater service as usual was great, shipping was quick and packaging was great. My rep, Jeff Barnett followed up with a thank you like clockwork. Sweetwater is great with service.

I was excited to install this speaker hoping for a sound that would miraculously change my amp as if I had finally found that magicical tone. The first thing I noticed seemed to be a little better note to note articulation overall. Overdrive and distortion both sound more distintive. The dirt and crunch isn't squeesed together. It's like there is gap between the notes. This totally changed the distortion for the better for my tastes.

After a couple months of playing I would say there is less booming bass but more defenition. The bass is much bigger when playing louder though. it really comes alive with volume. I haven't noticed any fizz at all. This Neo Creamback is definetly clearer and cleaner. Every note seems to stand out on its own better than the stock speaker did. The most notable and good thing to me is that the midrange is better suited to me. It seems that this creambacks midrange curve peakes in a higher frequency than the 70/80. And I like it a lot. I finally have my strat sounding like what I think a strat should sould like in a Marshall DSL. The Jangle is good but not overwhelming. Its just enough for me.

I will strongly consider purchasing more of these.
For reference these are the speakers I have in some of my amps. I have the alnico blue in a Mojo cab with a 5W and a 15W tube amp, and an Alnico gold in a Bugera 22, use a G12 H in one amp and 2 G12 75's in a stereo ART amp. I have a Green back in a Fender. I have a 4x12 with Eminence speakers. That doesn't make me an expert in sound though. Ive heard good guitarist who make anything sound good and that aint me.

Simply put, just great Celestion sound and quality. I put these in my old 50 watt JCM 800 2x12 combo, and these speakers have all the best parts of the V30 and Greenback. The Neo magnets in the speakers shave off a bunch of weight and make a big heavy amp like mine so much easier to move around, especially as I get older, lol.

I'm still breaking these in, but dang these sound good so far.

I highly recommend these, and if you want to do a great upgrade while saving some weight, this is what you need.

The scenario is this: a Mesa/Boogie Road King II 2x12 combo amp with two cast frame speakers that weigh about 15 pounds each, making this combo nearly unmovable. I'm looking to add some air and warmth to the tone, and take some lead out of its butt. In goes a set of Neo-Creambacks and, voila, the tone is great whether clean or driven and I can actually pick the amp up without injury. Mission accomplished!

My favorite celestion speaker has always been their classic greenback, but at 25w, it's not a good option for 1x12 cabinets. I've used the 65w creamback (G12M-65) for years in my 1x12 cabs, but it is a little more congested than a greenback & you lose that sizzle in the top end. Tried the neo creamback & it pretty much blew me away. It has the tight lows, smooth highs & higher wattage of the 65w creamback, but the midrange focus is a little higher frequency & you get the high-end presence of the greenback too. Rated at 60w, it's a great choice for any cab, and the light weight is a bonus. Use these in 4x12 and you're cutting 20-25 lbs. Great speaker!

Replaced the stock speaker in my Marshall DSL 20 combo with this. Yep this is the one. Great smooth tone. I tried a few other speakers (Vintage 30 and a G12-75)but none sounded as good as this. The weight savings was a bonus.

Installed this in my Bogner Atma combo, replacing a G12H30, which is almost 3x the weight. Celestion's G12M65 creamback is my favorite speaker & the neo creamback sounds similar to me, with of course, the reduced weight. If you're looking for a great speaker that will also cut the weight of your combo amp or speaker cab, the neo creamback is a great option.

Replaced the already excellent stock speaker in my Marshall DSL 40CR with this Creamback and made a great amp sound even better!

Ok, so take this for what it"s worth. Sound, like art, is too subjective to speak in absolutes. Take that statement for what it"s woth.

Bought a "special edition" Black Star Club 40 MKii from another online retailer. "Special Edition" in the form of it being blond pleather with "chocolate brown" control facing and cream chicken head knobs. I assume everything else is same as standard. I paired it with a Boss MS-3 switcher/multi-effects unit (love that thing). The amp, as is, was a great "mid price" tube amp. Cleanest channel was "Fender-ish", second clean channel was "Vox-ish", other 2 OD channels are really the clean channel plus what amounts to a built in 2 voiced OD Black Star pedal.

Out of the box Club 40 MKII sounds pretty dern good, more so even. Then I made the mistake of going to a to local independent music store (yeah, such a unicorn still exists if you can find one) and spent time noodling around on a Mesa-Boogie Mark V 25. Holy crap, that is my dream come true. If I were independently wealthy, I would have bought it on the spot. By comparison, the Black Star OD channels amount to an excellent clean channel with built in OD channels, (near zero digital fizz), but the OD voices lacked that certain something. "Sterile" is an overstatement, but not too far off.

The I thought about upgrading the speaker, Did a ton or research on this speaker and decided to pul the trigger. The magnet on this is actually pretty close in size and weight to the stock Celestion in the BS MKII, but, for obvious reasons it moves way more air. One of the great things about the Cliub 40 MKii stock speaker is it has tons of low end. The bad thing is it comes at the price of much flubbinesss.

After installing this speaker in that amp there is an instant boost in mid range and "chime." The cleanest channel moves from Fender-esque to a tad more Vox, but not exclusively. The 2nd clean channel became total Vox chime (not claiming it sounded just like a Vox, though).

The on board OD channels with this speaker really made me smile. The difference is subtle, but huge (if that isn"t a contradiction of terms). The difference was remarkable. Not saying it made my 700+ Black Star amp sound exactly like the dirty channels of the MB Mark V 25, but what it did sound like in its own voice was a remarkable difference,

The cost was a bit of low end, although the new version of said was much tighter than the stock speaker, if not more pronounce. This is where pairing it with the Boss MS-3 took took the baton to cross the finish line. Add a bit of compression from that unit plus it"s graphic EQ... holy crap!. Now with this speaker upgrade and the ability to tweak compression and EQ via the MS-3, and my Frankenstiened Cliub 40 MKII+MS-3+G12 Creamback Neo, and it"s tone nirvana. Seriously, I can make this thing do nearly all things tone-wise, albeit at the cost of a wee bit of Fender-ish honey smooth cleans. But for me, I"ll take th Voxy clean tone trade off against the Fendery clean tone trade off for the win in total versatility.

Of course, all of this is subjective, but this bedroom player couldn"t be happier with the speaker swap out (with caveat it"s not the speaker alone, it"s the also access to an added compression and EQ option).

I bought the Celestion G12 Neo Creamback Guitar Speaker - 16 Ohms speaker as a replacement for my new Marshall DSL40 CR stock Celestion V speaker. Comparing the sound of the stock Celestion V to the Neo, the Neo produces a sound more pronounced in the higher frequencies while the V produces a sound with more bottom. I didn't want to waste a speaker so I installed the Celestion V into an extension cabinet. I then plugged both speakers into the dual 16 ohm speaker outputs of the Marshall DSL40 Cr and the sound that came out of the two speakers was something that words can't describe. Maybe the day will come that they create a single speaker that produces the sound of a Celestion Neo and Celestion V in combination but that day is not this day.

My guitar is a Stratocaster Elite going straight into the amp. I only use the built-in reverb at low volume. My favorite pickup is the bridge humbucker. My strings are .008, .010, .015, .024, .032 and .042.

I got this to replace the factory speaker in my Class-A Crate VC2112RB which was some Eminence ceramic with a Crate label slapped on it. The first thing I noticed was that my tube amp was much quieter (less white noise or static). I broke this one in playing a looped isolated guitar track from my computer. I used the Beatles "Come Together" because of its combination of strumming, percussive barre chord chops, and of course a little dirt.

Later I opened it up with my Stratocaster with cleans, amp gain, and dirt pedals. I got great sounds with all pickups whether clean or dirty. I wasn't blown away by this speaker but it really does sound good and is a clear improvement.

I'll end with the topic most Neo speaker reviews start with: they are lighter. My amp went from 35.6 lbs. to 28.8 lbs. (6.8 pounds or 19% lighter). Also, Neo speakers have come a long way now that more R&D has been done on them. Many negative forum threads regarding Neo speakers are from a time when high costs for neodymium prevented thorough testing and improvements.

.These speakers are worth every penny.

Just got a Marshall 1936 2x12 cabinet, the speakers were Just ok,i replaced them with the G12 Neo cream back 16 ohm, what a difference, if you are considering a new cabinet, consider upgrading your speakers to these, you will not be disappointed.

I had a set of the Celestion Century Vintage Neodynium speakers in an Avatar open back 2x12 cabinet. There was always something missing in the tone from those speakers - I must have traded out a dozen different amplifiers thinking it was the amp but it was actually the speakers. There was a subtle lack of body in the tone that I couldn't correct using the amp tone controls. The feel of the amp was altered too, just a subtle thing that felt, I don't know....lifeless? It is hard to put into words, because overall the sound wasn't too bad, but when playing it just felt lifeless, sterile, just didn't push air with the expected gusto from some good quality tube amps and other (I've used everything from a Mesa Mark IV, Mesa 2:90, a Kemper PowerRack, etc.). The Century Vintage actually sounded ok with the Kemper.

I finally realized the issue and swapped them out for Celestion Vintage 30's and also tried a set of Eminence speakers and that did seem to breath life back into everything. It also put the weight back into everything....

So I wanted to get away from the V30 tone (too colored for the Kemper) and get something a little more open sounding and saw these speakers. I liked the samples I heard and was wondering if the Neo technology got better (since 2010 or so when I purchased the Century Neo's). So I went for it.

I think the sound quality difference was stunning, a major step up in tone. I don't hear or feel the lack of magnet weight any more, they push air or something intangible that makes it feel right. The amps I've played through these speakers feel different now, in a very good way, fun to play. The high end single notes are singing now, not harsh at all, sweet sounding. These are far better than all the other speakers I mentioned above and they are not even broken in.

I always wondered why the Neo magnets weren't catching on, maybe it was cost, but I believe they just didn't perform that well for guitar up until now. Maybe a big part of what I am liking is that the basic tone of this speaker is much more to my liking than the V30 style speaker, but it goes beyond that. There is a body and spongy feedback feel or something that is subtle but has a huge impact on my playing now.

I'll update later as I get more time on these, but I think these are brilliant so far