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Eminence Legend EM12 12-inch 200-watt Replacement Guitar Amp Speaker - 8 ohm

12" Guitar Speaker, 200W, 8 Ohms, 60Hz-4.9kHz
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The Eminence Legend EM12 12" guitar speaker gives you ultra-clean tone with a punchy and round low end. The 200W Legend EM12 has an extremely neutral and uncolored tone that's perfect for blues, rock, country, jazz, and metal. Sweetwater knows that guitar tone is important to you, and we're confident that the Eminence Legend EM12 can do the job. You'll love how defined your sound is, with warm mids and a smooth top end. So put a neutral speaker that lets you guitar's and amp's tone shine through in your guitar amplifier, with the Eminence Legend EM12 12" guitar speaker!

Legend EM12 Speaker Characteristics:
  • Application: 12" open- or closed-back
  • Configuration: 1, 2, or 4 x 12"
  • Low-end response: Aggressive
  • Low-end shape: Fat/Round
  • Midrange response: Moderate
  • Midrange shape: Warm
  • High-end response: Moderate
  • Breakup mode: Slow
Eminence Legend EM12 12" Guitar Speaker Features at a Glance:
  • Neutral-voiced 12" guitar speaker with an ultra-clean tone
  • Punchy lows, warm mids, and smooth highs
  • Suitable for blues, rock, country, jazz, and metal
  • 200W
  • 60Hz-4.9kHz
  • 8 Ohms
  • 16.3 lbs.
Pack your amplifier with vintage American tone, with the Eminence Legend EM12 12" guitar speaker!

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Tech Specs

  • Application: Guitar
  • Size: 12"
  • Impedance: 8 ohms
  • Power Handling: 200W
  • Frequency Range: 60Hz-4.9kHz
  • Material: Paper Cone with Cloth Edge, Die-cast Aluminum basket
  • Voice Coil Diameter: 2.5"
  • Magnet Type: Ferrite
  • Magnet Weight: 80 oz.
  • Weight: 16.3 lbs.
  • Manufacturer Part Number: LEGEND EM12

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Great Professional Speaker

I bought mine several weeks ago, hoping it would be a very close match to my EVM12L speakers, I was not disappointed. Last night I mounted the Legend EM12 right next to my EVM12L Classic in my '77 Fender Twin Reverb. All I can say is WOW! To my ears, this is a perfect match-up. I knew running these speakers would make this old amp ungodly heavy. But the tone coming out of this amp now, brings back what I used to hear years ago when I would crank up the clean Country tones on my Telecaster/Twin Reverb setup. This is a great speaker and I highly recommend it to anyone looking for the "Real Deal" in sound, quality and reliability.
by Dakota from Upper Midwest on
Music background: Been playing the Bars, Clubs, Honky Tonks and Festivals since I was eleven years old, in 1963.

Excellent guitar speaker

Got a 2x12 empty cab from eminence and put in this em12 and a delta pro 12a. I'm using a fender deville iv combo. I bypassed the internal speakers and plugged in the cab to the main speaker input on the amp. Both are 8 ohm and wired to 4ohm to match the amps output. The celes type a that came with the combo degraded after 300 plus hours of play. (I will say those type a's did sound nice until they broke in. There was never a good sweat spot for the mid spectrum even with my mxr eq.) After break in it just got worse, Flabby bass, not much mid definition and very ice pick like highs. I play heavy, grunge, rock and clean. Palm mutes are unreal. Distortion, overdrive chord definition with my od ( I keep my od pedal a secret) and boss ds1x are very defined and articulate across the spectrum. Power chords, bends, slides, hammers, arpeggios, etc all up and down the board are so clear and accurate regardless of clean, od, distortion, flanger etc. It has really opened up my boss waza delay all across the sound spectrum as well. This change has made my fender amp open up and sound great. Very defined lows that punch, warm mids that are audible and highs that don't pierce your ears. I play drop c and d standard on an esp e2 horizon and an older ltd ec1000 and use a wound 3rd. All my puckups are seymore duncan sentient and Pegasus. My pedals are a mix of boss and electro harmonix with an mxr 10 band eq. Hope this helps anyone looking for speaker replacement. On a side note, sweetwater doesn't stock 2x12 empty cabs. So you'll have to build or find one. Like I said in the beginning I was able to luck out and buy one from eminence speakers website but there are so many out there so happy hunting. Cheers!
by Bill from Harlingen, TX on
Music background: 20 plus years. Classical music, all genera of rock and metal.

Killer EV12L substitute

I bought one of these second hand a few months ago, and I'm pretty impressed to say the least. I love my Celestions and other lower powered speakers, but I've been tempted to try something like the EM12 for a long time now. Well, it has exceeded my expectations.

It is very clean, and very efficient. You can pump just about any conventional guitar amp under the sun into it, and it won't break a sweat. Nicely balanced tone wise, as it has plenty of bass & low mids, but a bit of an upper mids spike to keep things from getting too dark. Everything evens itself out.

I see why metal guys love these speakers, amongst others. It takes anything and everything I throw at it without flubbing out. It is definitely "tight" for lack of a better word. Besides the weight, I have no complaints about it.
by Billy from Louisville, KY on
Music background: Professional musician of 15+ years and counting

There's a Reason Paul Rivera Chose this Speaker

This is the speaker in the Rivera Stage IV, an amp I've owned for a while. It's a classic 64 Blackface type amp that's been modded and for sale at SW on this site. That amp is great, but I want to shout-out this speaker. There are a lot of reviews here from folks who use them playing 7-string guitars and chunk-style , and it seems the EM12L does a superb job. That is not my playing or this amp, but mercy . . . this speaker just cuts through in the mix in the best way. I just played for the first time at my church a few days ago, and that's what the AV guy said - it just cuts through right at the sweet spot. No flub or farty or sizzle sounds. Super sweet cleans, chimey with the delays we all use in church, and amazing note separation (which is also connected to the amp and the Lollar Imeperial/El Rayo pickups in my Les Paul). But you can have the best guitar and amp, and a farty, sizzly speaker and it's no bueno. This one is warm. Full. Round. Powerful. Sweet. High clean headroom. Handles ethereal spacey reverbs and delays, single coil snap and blues/blues rock, tele twang... with a rounded sweetness and great punch. It's like being punched in the head with silk-covered boxing gloves. You really feel it, but it's nice. Ha ha.

For one church song there was a heavy OD tone with my Les Paul and palm-muting to really get big fat chunk and it stayed totally flub-free and super super defined and tight (in a good way). The best I can say is that lows to highs all feel "round." Nothing piercing, and frequencies don't fall out. That's also related to the amp of course too, but there is a reason Paul Rivera chose this speaker for the Rivera Stage IV (I think it might be the best and most versatile amp ever made).

Before now, I have never owned an Eminence speaker in any of my many cabs, as I have been a Celestion fan (Cream, Creamback, Gold, Greenback, V30 etc). Still am, but this is the one amp and cab that will retain the stock speaker. I am a big big believer in this speaker. Plus, made in the USA in KY! Love that too.

If you are looking for speaker breakup as part of your sound (think a 15w Celes Blue for instance), then this is not your speaker. This is 200w and I have it in my 25w Rivera and it's amazing. Lower wattage speakers def have their place to be sure. But this is as good as the Celestion Cream and Gold to my ears and they cost well over 300.
by Barry Joslin from Fort Myers FL on
Music background: player for 30 years, worship leader, rocker at heart, gear nerd.

Excellent alternative to EV

The bold and punchy sound with no artifacts that I've always sought. Exceeded my expectations. Love these speakers. No more seeking certain era versions of EVs for me! Paul Rivera was right. Thank you Eminence!
by Thomas Coulter from Columbus, Ohio on
Music background: Weekend warrior type musician of 40 years
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