Jensen 6x9 coaxial car spkr w/20 oz magnet

When I saw the speakers they seemed to have a good build quality to them. Nice solid frame, hefty magnet. I'm not sure if I will hold onto them. But I did not want them to go to the land fill. Someone will want them.

Its fun to read about what you guys had for car stereo gear when you were younger. I hope I brought back some good memories. :D
 
Wow. Sure brings back memories from the 70's.
They were the standard. When you bought a new car, the first thing you did was upgrade with a pair of these. And yes, I also agree that the 20 oz coaxial sounded better than the triaxes. As they say, don't mess with success.
 
Amazing sound, that's for sure. As others have said, 90% of my friends had them...why did they stop production on them? I would have continued to purchase them without hesitation.
 
I saw a pair of Jensen 6x9 triaxials brand new in the box at an antiques store last year. I liked them as a collectors item, but not for 80 dollars. For half that, they would have been mine. They very obviously needed foams also.
 
I had some triaxials with a Pioneer Super Tuner In dash (can't remember the Model Number) and a Tancredi & band EZ Booster under dash in my 77 Cutlass. For me being an 18 year old metal head at the time, I was in heaven.
 
mikeybc said:
I never had the Jensens, I could only afford cheapo Sparkomatics as a teen.
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I had a pair of those as well! Not as good as the Jensons I had but I thought the Sparko's were better sounding than the Jenson triaxials. :yes:
 
Lavane said:
I had a pair of those as well! Not as good as the Jensons I had but I thought the Sparko's were better sounding than the Jenson triaxials. :yes:
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I don't think I ever had anything very good driving the Sparko's, cheap radio shack tape deck with a 40 watt eq/amp. Before that they were hooked to a ghetto-blaster wedged between the bench seat and dash with wires running back over the rear seat and into the trunk.

later on in the late 80's I had a pair of Alpine 6960's that to this day I regret letting go with a car I traded in.
 
Those Jensen coax driver were good. We were dealers and sent a set to Jayell that manufactured empty cabinets and had an engineering staff. They designed a box for them that would mount under the back panels so you ended up with a set of acoustic suspension speakers. Quite an improvement.

They also made a cabinet somewhat smaller than The Smaller Advent to mount them in for home use. We sold a bunch of these to service persons who bought their gear from the PX bit could not find small enough good speakers on the cheap for barracks living and sounded as good.
 
Ah, yes, the Jensen co-ax 6 x 9. These were the speakers that received a powerful signal from my equally cool Realistic 14-watt/channel car stereo, which I had heard was made by Alpine. This comination powered us through tens of thousands of road miles in our old cars. I remember that great sound to this day, 30 years later. The stereo is sitting on a shelf in my basement; the speakers long blown and gone. Thanks for reviving the memories!
 
In about 1979 I had a set in a pair of cabinets I built in a '66 Chevelle convertible with an amp and EQ that I know longer remember the manufacturer, They sounded better than the Audiovox Audiodomes that I had before but were replaced by a pair of Yamaha 691's(?) when I bought my '67 VW van. The Yamahas are still in my Toyota pick up (needing foam) and the Alpine amps I bought at the same time are still around too.
A friend had a set in a '69 Camaro with a Audiovox powerbooster, sounded horrible but it was loud.
 
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I had a pair of Triaxials hooked up to a Craig component cassette deck that had unbelievable bass.
The casstte deck broke down on me and I sent it off to Craig to fix and it worked for few more years til it broke again.

I wish I had kept it just for the FM tuner.I don't remember the model number and I have looked online trying to find which one it was to no avail.
 
I had multiple sets of the coaxials.
One pair ran in my 71 Ford Ltd Brouhahm, circa 1978, with a Clarion in dash AM/FM cassette and an Clarion five band equalizer/amp. Sounded damn good, until one day, at a friends house, we heard a distant rumbling. Turned out to be a classic 68 Impala coming to our party sporting Rockford Fosgate amps and speakers. Man, what a sound. Loud, proud and clear as a bell. I was pissed and jealous.
Years later I had an 81 Buick Park Avenue and outfitted it with Boston Acoustic and Polk separates, powered by an Alpine amp and Kenwood head unit. That was very nice....
 
had the Jensen coax's in the rear deck of my '70 duster. that cavernous trunk made them pound! craig in dash cassette with an audiovox amp, until I got a pioneer gm-40. we spent days making mix tapes to listen to in that car...sigh

trippin.
 
wascobi said:
had the Jensen coax's in the rear deck of my '70 duster. that cavernous trunk made them pound! craig in dash cassette with an audiovox amp, until I got a pioneer gm-40. we spent days making mix tapes to listen to in that car...sigh

trippin.
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Mix tapes. I remember the fun. I actually made a mix tape (8-track) for my wife when we were dating in the early eighties. I slowly converted her to cassettes. 32 years later, she still puts up with me.
 
Best setup I heard with them was in a van outfitted as a camper. The owner used a KLH Twentyseven to power the system. This was a couple of years before the auto aftermarket craze started. The owner was my tech and he had almost his complete service bench equipment in the van tuning the interior finding out where to place speakers, box sizes and it took months to get it and the interior design to work together. In the end he had a great system. When the Pioneer Supertuner series came out we tried the unit in his van. The KLH killed it but it surpassed the stock Delco and Fomoco. The Motorola OEM was as good as Pioneer but their use was limited to only certain models.
 
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