Jensen P12N Alnico Vint. No Bell 8Ohm 5-stars Reviews

pure vintage

fitted to a fender blues junior and the difference it made was superb .brill high end and super bass response can't praise THIS speaker enough ,BUY ONE

Vintage style speaker

Compliments fender style amps perfectly. Really nice and bell like tones. sounds really nice with most amps for cleans.

Excellent speaker!

The Jensen "reissues" seem to get a lot of negative reviews on various guitar forums. The general critisism seems to be that they are too bright and don't sound like the original 60 year old Jensens. A few people seem to love them though and claim that an unusually long breaking in period is why so many people dislike these speakers at first glance.

After spending almost 100 hours with this speaker I can confirm that breaking in has a HUGE impact on the sound. More so than on most other guitar speakers I have used. I'm using mine as a replacment in a Fender Musicmaster Bass Amp (but obviously use it only for guitar, not bass). It sounds absolutely fantastic. It's definitely has a sound that may not be everyones favourite but personally I love it. If I was to describe the sound (with this particular amp) it would be very close to the guitar sound of Stephen Stills on the early CSN (&Y) albums.

Highly recommended if you're into a vintage alnico sound and have the patience to break it in properly. Does it sound like an original Chicago Jensen? Well, we'll have to wait about 60 years for that... but it certainly sounds close to recordings from that era, when the old ones were still new. And that's not a bad thing at all!