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Review on High-Quality Jensen 8-Inch Green Speaker (C8R8): Elevate Your Audio Experience by Tim Hollins

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Opened up a Orange crush 20rt

Relace an 8 ohm 8-inch Orange "voice of the world" white lable stock speaker in a sealed 8" combo from Orange, the Crush 20rt. Previously there was a stuffy/boxy tone that managed to reflect out from the stock speaker. The jensen c8r-8 seems to have tamed that at moderate/bedroom volumes. Addionaly, the stock tone was a more modern mid and bass heavy, with a little something missing from the detail/headroom. This is a solid state amp, and the dirty channel got muddy fast, and at low volume. The Jensen cleaned up the clean channel, and made the gain range of the dirty side more controlled. I can now have articulation and fuzz. I'd put the new tone closer to ac-15 on the clean channel with my telecaster (s.d. 5-2 pickups), and dirt can be dialed from bassman/jcm-45ish, to something approaching a fuzzed out mesa on humbuckers (fender player strat dual humbuckers with coil split). In short, the jensen saved this amp for me. I'll continue to play it now, after having replaced it previously with a Vox valvetronix vt40+. Now considering the Jensen mod 10" for that amp. (Other amps include superchamp x2 head on a hrd 1x12 cabinet with celestion 70-80, and a vintage blackface bandmaster/bassman head on a 2x12" bandmaster cabinet.) This C8r-8 put my little orange back in familiar tone territory for me without the typical scooped mids of a classic fender. Nice speaker.

Pros
  • The 8-inch size of the speaker makes it the perfect choice for use in large rooms, auditoriums, and other settings where powerful, high-quality audio is necessary
Cons
  • The speaker may not be able to handle frequent use