Jensen’s Blackbird 40 speaker promises vintage character with modern high-gain power

Jensen has introduced the new Blackbird 40
(Image credit: Jensen)

Jensen Loudspeakers has introduced the Blackbird 40 speaker, a new 12-inch entry in the company’s Jet Series of guitar amp speakers.

The 40-watt speaker boasts a 1.26-inch copper-wound voice coil and a reinforced AlNiCo magnet in the classic “horseshoe” format.

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Richard Bienstock

Rich is the co-author of the best-selling Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion. He is also a recording and performing musician, and a former editor of Guitar World magazine and executive editor of Guitar Aficionado magazine. He has authored several additional books, among them Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, the companion to the documentary of the same name.