Jensen Mod 10" 50 watts for guitar?

[brandon.]

I was gonna order 8 of these for a 6x10 cab(2 spares). 50 watts each, wired in parallel for 5.3 ohms...
what do you guys think of this idea? I'd be playing a sunn concert lead through it.

Fliptops Jensen Mods

[Zack]

5.3 ohms? what ever happened to the old standbys 4, 8 or 16?

I think that's a great idea as long as you get impedance to work. Is that a pretty good deal for those speakers?

[brandon.]

$240 for 8 speakers seems like a good deal to me. I don't need anything fancy, just something reliable.
5.3 probably looks like 4 ohms to a solid state amp. I'm pretty sure that when you measure a cabs resistance, it's almost never dead on 4, 8, or 16. I think you always just round it off...

[Zack]

It looks like 5.3 Ω might be more common than I am familiar with. A friend was looking at this "zmatcher" recently and 5.3 & 2.6 are on there, pretty cool. (I was meaning to start a thread about it but I think this is the perfect place) I also forgot that the sunn concert amp was solid state and if you're not worried about it, then do it.

[light rail coyote]

I have those in an old sunn 6x10 cab I play my sunn solarus through. It sounds like a monster. Sounds great

here's Sublimedo playing thorough it with his and Rochello's band Swing Hailey when they came to Portland and played

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[brandon.]

Nice, thanks for the video. So they do well as guitar and bass speakers? I guess if they're advertised as SVT replacements its not a big deal.

So are they guitar speakers that work well for bass?
or bass speakers that work well for guitar?
I'll be in drop c.

[light rail coyote]

I've never used it for bass, cause I have a fender 2x15 cab thats MEGA bassy, but i like how a low tuned guitar sounds through it.

[Sloan]

just buy them shits and let us know if it was a good decision or not

[brandon.]

Yeah man, I'm going to pick them up in a week or two, I'll let you know how they sound.