Press Release
Source: Ted Weber Speakers
Ted Weber’s Famous Loudspeakers is proud to celebrate their 20th anniversary, marking two decades of quality, custom work dedicated to making the world a little louder each day.
“We have the best jobs in the world,” said Weber Speakers President TA Weber. “We spend our days creating custom speakers that help musicians across the globe make better music.”
But the now-worldwide speaker giant didn’t start out that way. The brainchild of self-professed “tinkerer” Ted Weber and his then-26-year-old son, TA, the company had humble beginnings in the family’s basement and garage.
The year was 1996, and in an effort to gain a better understanding of vintage ‘50s and ‘60s sound, Ted began to study every aspect of the vintage loudspeaker. He studied such issues as Ceramic versus AlNiCo magnets, cone types, basket styles and cutouts, paints, terminal connections, cone, spider, voice coil and dustcap materials, manufacturing and assembly techniques and glue. The list went on and on.
Ted’s research concluded that the only way they could satisfy themselves was to emulate the vintage style speakers in every way, both electrically and mechanically.
And with that, Weber Speakers was born, merging warm vintage sound with state-of-the-art technology.
“Guitarists are a unique bunch, said Weber. “We spend thousands of dollars tweaking every little piece of our gear – guitars, amps, pedals, strings, cables, tubes and electrical components of our amps, but I think more and more players are becoming wise to the fact that your speakers make a difference. After all, the speaker is what’s making the actual sound. Why spend thousands of dollars on everything else, but let your final tone come through a $4 speaker?”
And it wasn’t long before the word got out to some of the biggest names in the business, across all genres. Weber devotees include Kenny Chesney, Carlos Santana, Matchbox 20, Taylor Swift, The Black Keys, Eric Clapton, The Gaslight Anthem, Frank Turner and Ben Lloyd, The Guessing Game, Chris Funk of the Decemberists, Mark Saunders of Florence & the Machine and many more.
“It’s love. My Webers are super responsive, loud, have a huge frequency spectrum and sound fantastic. Night and day better than the stock items,” said Ben Lloyd. “I can’t recommend them highly enough.”
Weber created custom combo amps for Reverend Peyton of Rev. Peyton’s Big Damn Band. The amps were a beautiful dark brown, with tooled leather, wrapping some of their Vintage Series speakers, and Peyton says they look as good as they sound.
“I have been on a lifelong ‘crusade’ for thick tone,” said Peyton. “I feel like I found the Holy Grail buried in Kokomo, Ind. People can tell the difference, and are always blown away by the fat sound of my Weber Speakers.”
Guitar Player Magazine has called Weber Speakers the “Jaguar or Rolls Royce of speakers.”
In 2009, Ted Weber took a new calling to make Heaven louder, but each and speaker produced today still use his specs and plans. And 20 years since the start of the company, the attention to detail and painstaking craftsmanship of those first vintage-style speakers remains the same. The product line has ballooned to include original-style speakers, guitar amps, custom built and designed speaker cabinets, tools and much more. Each speaker is still hand built, one at a time, not quickly packaged together on an assembly line, and the results are ones you can hear.
“We can have tighter tolerances, which translates to more dynamic and richer sounding speakers,” said TA Weber. “That translates to better music, because when a guitar players don’t have to worry about their tone, they can focus on the music.”
To find our more about the Weber difference, visit tedweber.com.
