Jensen Loudspeakers Silverbird 10 50 Watt 10'' Speaker - 8 Ohm

The Silverbird speakers are designed to provide an eminently versatile array of tones, retaining the distinct vintage character of their Reinforced AlNiCo ancestors, the Blackbird 40 speakers, but in a more affordable platform. Specific attention was paid to the top-end response, carefully tailored to make the Silverbird speakers well-suited to overdrive and high-gain applications. Additionally, they feature a more contemporary frequency curve on their respective treble ranges.

The Silverbird line utilizes a new 1 1/2" (38mm) aluminum-wound voice coil with a Kapton former, designed to retain the trademark clarity of the Jensen clean tones, paired with a smooth, progressive contour of the top-end response; this response is tailored to grant openness with clean and pushed tones, and the necessary smoothness to keep the upper harmonics of the high-gain tones under control. The medium-sized Ceramic magnets provide the necessary strength for generous-yet-tight bass, while the new cone membranes, with a specific treatment on the paper surrounds, deliver a balanced response in the midrange and "presence" zone.

The Silverbird 10 has a more focused and present response with the typical immediacy of the best 10" speakers. Versatile enough to deliver an open, airy response in open-back cabinets, the Silverbird 10 can morph into powerful rock'n roll tone machines in closed-back enclosures.

Specifications

General Characteristics
- Nominal Overall Diameter: 259 mm
- Nominal Voice Coil Diameter: 38 mm
- Magnet Weight: 640 g
- Overall Weight: 2.2 kg
- Flux Density: 1.2 T
- Voice Coil Winding Depth: 10 mm
- Magnetic Gap Depth: 6 mm

Thiele-Small Parameters
- Nominal Impedance: 8Ω
- Voice Coil DC Resistance: 6 Ω
- Resonance Frequency: 94 Hz
- Mechanical Q Factor: 11.88
- Electrical Q Factor: 1.13
- Total Q Factor: 1.04
- Mechanical Moving Mass: 17.9 g
- Mechanical Compliance: 159 um/N
- Force Factor: 8.1 Wb/m
- Equivalent Acoustic Volume: 24.6 lt.
- Diaphragm Area: 330.1 cm2
- Voice Coil Inductance @ 1kHz: 0.48 mH

Constructive Characteristics
- Magnet: Ferrite
- Voice Coil Winding: Aluminum
- Voice Coil Former: Kapton
- Cone Material: Paper
- Surround Material: Integrated Paper
- Dust Dome Material: Non-treated Cloth
- Basket Material: Pressed Sheet Steel
- Surround Treatment: Yes

Electrical Characteristics
- Nominal Impedance: 8Ω
- Rated Power: 50 W
- Musical Power: 100 W
- Sensitivity@1W,1m: 96.5 dB