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Excellent upgrade for small tube combos
This is "just" an 8 inch, 25W speaker but you wouldn't know that from its sound. Jensen themselves describe it as having tight bass, aggressive mids and bright highs. They are not overstating.
Amazing bass response here, no muddy, boomy sounds but just crystal clear tone. The higher frequencies sparkle. Very defined and lush sound with single coils.
Sound is partly subjective, so to put things in perspective: I play a Fender Strat with Texas Specials through a tiny Kustom V5 Defender. I like my sound clean, or at most a little breakup. The speaker performs wonderfully here, it really opens up the amp, like removing a curtain in front of it.
Any negative points? Relatively speaking, no. For any improvement you'd need either a bigger speaker (12") or perhaps Alnico (though that is debatable).
If you have a practice tube combo, 5-15W, with an 8 inch speaker that can use an upgrade, this is it. Sure, you'll maybe end up paying 1/4th of what your amp cost, but to me, it's worth it. This speaker (together with tubes from TAD) has made the little Kustom really shine and become an excellent recording amp.
Amazing bass response here, no muddy, boomy sounds but just crystal clear tone. The higher frequencies sparkle. Very defined and lush sound with single coils.
Sound is partly subjective, so to put things in perspective: I play a Fender Strat with Texas Specials through a tiny Kustom V5 Defender. I like my sound clean, or at most a little breakup. The speaker performs wonderfully here, it really opens up the amp, like removing a curtain in front of it.
Any negative points? Relatively speaking, no. For any improvement you'd need either a bigger speaker (12") or perhaps Alnico (though that is debatable).
If you have a practice tube combo, 5-15W, with an 8 inch speaker that can use an upgrade, this is it. Sure, you'll maybe end up paying 1/4th of what your amp cost, but to me, it's worth it. This speaker (together with tubes from TAD) has made the little Kustom really shine and become an excellent recording amp.
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Little piece of Fender sound, changed my sound with a small 6V6 amp, very nice speaker...
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Replacement speaker for Peavey Royal 8
I bought this to replace the stock speaker in a 5-watt Peavey Royal 8 amp. The improvement in sound quality was amazing and immediate. I'm really happy it was so easy to turn an ok amp into a great amp just by putting this speaker in. The replacement was easy, too.
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sf
Great amp upgrade
Replaced a damaged Fender Mustang II (20W) speaker. Sounds great, clear and crisp!!!
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M
Very nice upgrade speaker
I bought this to upgrade my peavey valve king 8 royal factory speaker. The speaker change was done easily all you need is a screwdriver. There was a huge improvement of sound with this speaker. With the factory installed the sound was always a bit muddy no matter what but after installing this speaker it is like a new much better amp.
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Great upgrade for small amps
I replaced the stock speaker in a small practice amp with this speaker and it improved the sound massively. more clean headroom and more volume.
very good upgrade
very good upgrade
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BT
Perfect
Used in my home build Modulus 5 watt amp, sounds great
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The final touch
Paired with the small Vox MV Clean and the small BC108, this speaker completes the overall Blackface vibe in my practice setup. Works really well with all kinds of drive and distortion too. I generally use a large pedalboard into a clean amp, so this works great for the same sound albeit in a tiny format.
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j
Great speaker
I bought this to put in my laney super cub 8 and it really brought the amp alive, sounds way more fendery now, hooray!
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