Jensen Speakers presents the Blackbird 40 - A new take on the classic AlNiCo tone, with a bolder voice for vintage and modern players

Speaker technology is a quite peculiar one, especially for the guitar applications: it's not common at all, in any industry, that after more than one century from its invention, the basic technologies are still exactly the same. In the industry of speakers for electric guitar amplifiers, some of most sought after tones still come from a classic 12" speaker, with a paper membrane, a voice coil and an AlNiCo magnet. Not far at all from the original conception of Peter Jensen, who put it together more than a century ago.

Still, there is room for innovation, and that is what the Jensen R&D department achieved with the Blackbird 40: we listened to the market's request for a lower powered version of our flagship model, the Blackbird 100, and explored all possible ways to develop a speaker with a distinct vintage flavor, keeping intact the snap, sparkle and chime of the classic Jensens, but adding a firm, powerful response in the bass range. To achieve this result, we developed an exclusively designed, "Reinforced AlNiCo" magnet, that is more 30% more efficient than the traditional ones, thus behaving like a much bigger, more expensive and heavy one. This reinforced magnet gives the necessary strength, power and control on the lower frequencies that we were aiming to. The top end clarity is ensured by a 32mm (1 1/4") copper-wound voice coil on a Kapton voice coil former, pushing a lightweight membrane with treated suspensions.

The Blackbird 40 is, in essence, a speaker with a multifaceted personality, perfectly at home with clean, sparkling tones, pushed and mid gain power chords. But with more gain and distortion, it will deliver a very convincing rock attitude, with a full bodied and well controlled bass range.

The Blackbird 40 is part of the Jensen Jet series, sharing the modern, nocturne satin black look, enriched by the classic "Horseshoe" magnet design.

It will be available in January 2021, through the usual network of the international distributors of Jensen Speakers.

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Jensen Speakers for Guitar and Bass are manufactured by SICA Altoparlanti s.r.l., based in Trecastelli, in the heart of the Marche region, the “Musical District” in Italy.

In 1996 SICA Altoparlanti accepted the challenge to reproduce the legendary Jensen speakers for the electric guitar market. After having consolidated the success of the Vintage series, Jensen debuted the Jet series, a range of innovative speakers for the most contemporary music styles.

Today Jensen is one of the leading, global suppliers to the industry and to guitar players through a worldwide extended network of business partners, distributors and resellers.