Joe's Pye R33.

[Yorkie]

I'm sure it must be the speaker Joe - my R33 sounds fine, as does the one that I fettled up for my son. I thought that from a design point of view, they did well to get a decent sized elliptical speaker into a small cabinet. Larger in fact than many TV speakers! If you don't see a suitable speaker at the GF Swapmeeet, you're almost certain to see plenty of scrapper sets for a couple of sovs that you could cannibalise, but I always fail miserably in that department and end up wanting to fully restore the donor set rather than pulling it to bits:-/