Jensen 6x9 coaxial car spkr w/20 oz magnet

fredcohiba

fredcohiba

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Well, I shed a tear today. I tossed out a Jensen coaxial car speaker today.
It has been hanging in my garage, and the garage before, and the garage before that for oh I'd say the last 30 years. Yep that's right you younger folks, 30 years.
I had it in my brand new at the time 79 Grand Prix. I ended up with one, because one of the two original blew out, I bought a new pair, installed those and kept this as a spare. Car has been gone a long time, but I could just not get myself to toss this thing out. You know saving my youth somehow.
Well, today sitting in my garage smoking a cigar, I spied the speaker. Took it off the wall and looked at it just for grins. The foam surround looked good, and with just a light touch it crumbled to dust.
Bye old friend........
 
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The Jensen 6x9 coaxial kicked off the whole car stereo craze in the seventies. I couldn't keep them on the shelf. All the new car audio shops that started springing up then installed more Jensens than anything else. You were defenetly cool if you had a pair mounted in the rear deck. Everyone was like, "wow!, 20 oz. Magnets!"
 
Yes you're right. Even drove them with a Clarion power amp with five band equalizer. Thought I had a VG setup until my buddy got his Rockford Fosgate system in his 73 or so, LeMans. Heard it coming down the street from inside my parents house. Definitely killed my buzz.
Fun to remember those days.
 
God, do I remember those things. They were ubiquitous in the 70's. I think everyone I knew had them.

Funny, I reall didn't like the tri-axials, though. I thought the two-ways sounded better.
 
I remember the same thing. I bought the triax for my dad's car and they didn't have the same kind of bass the coax had.
 
I had a pair of those in my 76 Vette mounted in speaker enclosures in the back . I also had a pair of 4X10 Pioneers in the kick panels and a pair of 4X6 some other brand on top of the dashboard powered by an IDI amp with cool LEDs watt meters and some other amp. Sweet sounding. Had them in there until about 1980 when I was carjacked. After a couple of weeks I got the Vette back but the stereo was gone.
 
Pioneer KP500 and Jensen 6x9 coaxials. The KP actually sounded richer with coax than the triax. Plenty of highs. It didn't get any better than that setup!
 
I was manager of acoustical development at Jensen from 77 - 80. Development, Marketing and Sales were in Schiller Park, IL near O'hare Airport but speaker mfg was in Dubois and Punxsutawney, PA. by Rola, a sister company (yes, I saw the ground hog). It was definitely a busy time. Speakers were the cash cow but Jensen introduced car "receivers" at that time that blew away the OEM radios in most cars and were very popular.
 
those things were indeed very popular. so much so that those Jensens wound up in many low fi home speaker kits, do-it-yourself magazine articles and 'teen-fi' experiments..
 
Wow, memories. Had the early and later Triaxials in my 68 Camaro.

All Jensen, tuner/8-track, amp and a cool eq that slid out from under the dash like a drawer. That eq had long throw sliders, selectable frequencies and lit up real nice when you slid it out. I remember the head unit and eq being green anodized brushed aluminum.

Soon after 8-track would completely die off.
 
I agree with other posts in this thread, the coaxial Jensons sounded much better than the triaxials. I was going to buy a set of triaxials for myself until I heard them. I wonder what went wrong?
 
jlovda said:
I was manager of acoustical development at Jensen from 77 - 80. Development, Marketing and Sales were in Schiller Park, IL near O'hare Airport but speaker mfg was in Dubois and Punxsutawney, PA. by Rola, a sister company (yes, I saw the ground hog). It was definitely a busy time. Speakers were the cash cow but Jensen introduced car "receivers" at that time that blew away the OEM radios in most cars and were very popular.
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I remember those Jensen in dash units when they came out, they were fine units, blew the Craig and Audiovox and Kraco units away. Still, my Pioneer KP underdash was great until someone stole it...

FYI - still have my Jensen OPC24's in daily use with my vintage tube amp.
 
The coaxials WERE better!

Those 6x9's could do more with 15w.p.c than most other speakers around. I was broken hearted when I traded my '68 Mustang for a '72 Cougar and found the Jensen 6x9's wouldn't fit :tears:..... until I figured how to put 4 Jensen 4x10 coaxials in there :yes:
 
This thread is old, but I must add that I found a pair of co-ax in my father in laws garage when we were cleaning it out. They need surrounds but I will have them up and running soon.
 
71CNY said:
This thread is old, but I must add that I found a pair of co-ax in my father in laws garage when we were cleaning it out. They need surrounds but I will have them up and running soon.
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That is the first time I have heard of someone refoaming the classic Jensen speaker.
I had the coax and triax in a few cars.When the car went the speakers didn't go with it.
 
Yup.. Jensens in the back deck and a Muntz 8 track in the dash.
Best audio sounds ever.. according to the brochure babble.
In truth it actually wasn't bad :-)
 
The first unit I had pushing those coax was a hefty Craig-Pioneer FM 8 track.That unit must have weighed ten pounds.
 
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