Jensen P12Q Vintage AlNiCo Guitar Speaker (40 Watts, 12")

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Hard-biting middles and bright highs define this vintage guitar speaker. These tones stay balanced when put into overdrive.

The P12Q has a very warm, mid-focused bite with clear, bright highs. When presented with overdrive distortion the P12Q remains well-balanced.

General Characteristics
Nominal Overall Diameter: 306 mm, 12 in.

Nominal Voice Coil Diameter: 32 mm, 1.25 in.

Magnet Weight: 300 g, 10.5 oz

Overall Weight: 4.10 lbs

Flux Density: 0.98 T

Thiele-Small Parameters
Voice Coil DC Resistance RE: 5.72 Ohm

Resonance Frequency fS: 90.4 Hz

Mechanical Q Factor QMS: 10.62

Electrical Q Factor QES: 2.38

Total Q Factor QTS: 1.94

Mechanical Moving Mass MMS: 22.1 g

Mechanical Compliance CMS: 140 um/N

Force Factor BxL: 5.50 Wb/m

Equivalent Acoustic Volume VAS: 47.5 lt.

Maximum Linear Displacement XMAX: 1.0 mm

Reference Efficiency nO: 1.42 %

Diaphragm Area SD: 490.8 cm2

Losses Electrical Resistance RES: 25.5 Ohm

Voice Coil Inductance @ 1kHz LE: 0.67 mH

Constructive Characteristics
Magnet: AlNiCo

Voice Coil: Winding Copper

Voice Coil: Former Nomex

Cone: Paper

Surround: Integrated Paper

Dust Dome: Solid Paper

Basket: Pressed Sheet Steel

Electrical Characteristics
Nominal Impedance: 8 Ohm

Rated Power: 40 W

Musical Power: 80 W

Sensitivity@1W,1m: 95.0 dB

Reviewers gave this product an overall rating of 5 out of 5 stars. (2 ratings)
Submitted October 19, 2015 by H S in Boston, MA

"Gutsy speaker with a lot of nuance"

Overall: 5 out of 5 stars
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Put this in a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe (a replacement for the same speaker in a special edition Hot Rod). Both this and the original speaker sound fantastic -- other Hot Rod owners almost always comment on it. We use it in a drum/guitar duo and so we beat it up pretty hard to get all the low end out of it. The first speaker blew after about 3 years of hard use -- turned out there was a cracked solder joint before it blew, so the speaker itself might not even be to blame. But most importantly - excellent sound, full and rugged enough to drive a rock duo for years!

Musical Background:

Regularly gigging multi-instrumentalist for 5+ years

Musical Style:

Rock, Funk, Blues, Afro-Beat
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