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Gray Wolf amplifier, a Baltic birch cabinet containing a Weber Ceramic Gray Wolf speaker, $2,500. tedweber.com
TED WEBER and his son, T.A., longed to recreate sounds from a seemingly bygone era: the golden age of 1950s and ’60s rock. So the senior Weber, an engineer and avid guitarist himself, tinkered with magnets, coils, cones, and other vintage components until he created a speaker that mimicked those in the great amplifiers of that generation. In 1996, the duo opened Ted Weber’s Famous Loudspeakers in Kokomo, and now the client list includes Eric Clapton, Joe Walsh, Metallica, and Pearl Jam.
“What started it for us was the older guys who used to have these amps when they were kids, and they wanted to get that sound again,” says C.J. Sutt…
