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harpoon_man
97 posts
Apr 22, 2015
5:08 PM
Has anyone tried out this speaker for harp? Looks intriguing. Description from the Jensen website:

P10R-F
P-A-P10R-FEN-8
10", 25 watts
Ohms:8?

The P10R-F was designed by the Jensen factory in cooperation with Fender® for the reissue of the Fender ’57 Bandmaster® and the 20th Anniversary Vibro King®. The goal was to design a P10R speaker with a more broken-in, worn sound straight out of the box. The P10R-F has a smooth, round top end and a full-bodied low end response, it distorts at lower levels; and still maintains the vintage classic tonalities of the legendary P10R.

Lows: Mids: Highs: Overdrive:
Loose Subdued Subtle Crunchy

Guitarist Description:
Warm, mellow tone with less bite and brightness than the standard P10R. In overdrive, this one eases into a creamy distortion.
Barley Nectar
778 posts
Apr 22, 2015
6:16 PM
Going by that description, I'm sure some here would like the F. Loose bottom and subdued mids is not the sound I would be looking for. Might be just the ticket for a Chicago tone. Might work well with a bright mic or amp like a Silvertone Twin 12. We shall see...BN
barbequebob
2894 posts
Apr 23, 2015
10:11 AM
Having heard what a real P10R that hasn't been reconed sounds like on a number of real '59 Bassmans, tweed Bandmasters and tweed Supers, the present reissues even after a guitar player has done the classic thing to break them in, which is play the amp they're put in cranked all the way up every day for about a month, the new reissue P10R's still don't sound like the real deal, so I have very serious reservations about that. If you were going for a Jensen reissue alnico, you'd probably be better off using a P10Q, which has a much fatter bottom end and middle than the P10R reissues do.
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mlefree
292 posts
Apr 25, 2015
10:14 AM
I had an amp tech install a Jensen P10 in a Silverface Princeton. That amp had unbelievable tone. So much so that Ronnie Shellist now owns it.

I'd get another P10Q in a heartbeat, but I know nothing about the R or F.

Michelle

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1847
2308 posts
Apr 25, 2015
11:24 AM
I use a re-issued p 10 Q
Along with a vintage p10 Q that has been reconed, and 2 mojo 10’s
In my bassman amp.

I posted a clip using a very clean sound recently.
I prefer a clean sound a great deal of the time.
I can get an overdriven sound when necessary. But at that point it is really loud.
barbequebob
2896 posts
Apr 27, 2015
11:17 AM
The original P10R's were used on many differnt Fender amps in the 50's that used 10 inch speakers and were also used on the very earliest of the 4-10 tan Concert amps (and they are SUPER rare to find and for a time before Piazza began using the Harp King amps, he sometimes used a pair of these in a series on a gig). to P10R's have a slightly smaller voice coil and more top end, but the reissues are all FAR more trebly than the vintage ones (that's comparing it to a vintage one that hasn't been messed with in any way. P10Q's have a slightly large voice coil, slightly heavier alnico magnet and much more midrange and bottom end. A friend of mine who passed away a couple of years ago and a huge collector of all sorts of amps had four vintage '59 Bassmans, two with stock P10R's and two with stock P10Q's (Fender had been alternating their usage, espcially in the last year of the 4-10 Basmman, which was 1960) and all sounded totally bad ass.
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Sincerely,
Barbeque Bob Maglinte
Boston, MA
http://www.barbequebob.com
CD available at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/bbmaglinte


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