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Jensen Loudspeakers announced the release of the Jensen Blackbird 40, a 12-inch guitar speaker in the Jet Series. It is a 40-watt speaker with a 1.26-inch copper-wound voice coil and a reinforced AlNiCo magnet in the classic horseshoe format.
Development of the Blackbird 40 focused on achieving two different goals. The first was to capture the classic vintage character and chime, in order to resemble the tone of one of the most popular Jensen Speakers, the P12Q. Second was to offer a significantly increased sensitivity and a stronger magnet to achieve a firmer and more powerful bass
response. These characteristics make the Blackbird 40 best suited for more modern applications, including those requiring higher gain and overdriven tones.
The Blackbird 40 is the first speaker in the Jet Series featuring Jensen’s exclusive Reinforced AlNico magnet technology. This new technology results in a magnet which has been reinforced and made more efficient, raising the overall Flux Density (the “strength” of the magnet) by more than 30 percent, stated the company. This results in
the behavior of a much bigger and more expensive magnet without the added cost.
