Jensen P12Q or P12R: the old Alnico speakers that came with the low-power Fender
amplifiers from the fifties—the ones that
most people drool over. We install that voice
in one of our baskets, so when you use
that particular Flux Tone driver, it’s going to
sound like the old Jensen sound. We also
get cones that are manufactured in Italy by
the company that bought the Jensen name,
and those cones typically come in amps like
a new Fender Twin Reverb. We put those in
for another voice, if you like that one. And
then we have four different cones we get
directly from Celestion.
Ninety-nine percent of that sound actually
comes from the parts that move, rather than
the basket or the paint, or how the magnetism is generated. It’s actually coming from
the weight of the voice coil, the size of the
wire, the size of the voice coil winding, the
gap width and height, all that stuff. The part
that’s moving, the cone, the dustcap, the
voice coil, the spider, those things are all
glued together, and they move as one piece.
The mass of those various elements, and the
lengths of the paper pulp fibers that are in
the cone, plus other minor minutiae (glue,
humidity, etc.) all dictate exactly what it’s
going to sound like.
As long as you take that whole assembly
together—the cone, the spider, the voice
coil, all of the moving parts—if you take that
whole thing out of a Celestion gold speaker,
say, and put it into another speaker frame,
it’s going to sound the same because all the
moving parts are the same.
We put the cone assemblies directly into
our hardware. So, if you buy a Celestion
Blue from us, you’re getting everything a
Celestion blue is, as far as its tonal abilities
and power handling, only you get it with
Flux Tone’s VMT. Because we’re building
speakers more or less one at a time, we
have very small production runs, maybe ten
or twenty in one run, so we can hold our
tolerances tight. The overall efficiency of our
drivers is usually the same or higher than the
equivalent driver in the industry.
You’ll put these speakers into a cabinet,
like the one from Mojo that you showed us,
but you’ll also retrofit them inside of some-
one’s amplifier?
