Marshall has a new limited edition speaker out, and it leans hard into one of the most famous partnerships in rock history. The Acton III Marshall x Hendrix 60th Anniversary Edition takes the compact Acton III home speaker and wraps it in purple crushed velvet, silver hardware, and cosmic artwork built to celebrate 60 years of Marshall and Jimi Hendrix.
Price: $299
Where to Buy: Marshall
Rather than joining the permanent catalog, it arrives as a limited run in the smallest size of Marshall’s home range. If the look grabs you, scarcity is half the pitch.
Why Marshall built a Hendrix speaker
The tribute makes more sense than it might first appear. Hendrix leaned on Marshall amplifiers throughout his career, and his middle name was, fittingly, Marshall. Sixty years on, the brand is drawing on real history rather than inventing a connection for the sake of a color scheme.
To mark the anniversary, Marshall pulled from the cosmic imagery it says inspired Hendrix: deep space, celestial motifs, and of course purple. The result is a grille with a psychedelic print, an all-seeing eye badge, and purple control knobs with silver accents that catch the light like guitar hardware.
The finish is the selling point. This one trades the usual textured vinyl for purple crushed velvet and boots up with custom Hendrix-inspired sounds, so it reads as a limited run for collectors and fans, not the shopper hunting the cheapest route into Marshall sound. It caps a busy year for the brand that already brought the Minor IV true wireless earbuds.
Where it sits in Marshall’s lineup
Marshall splits its current home speakers into three sizes: the compact Acton III, the mid-size Stanmore III, and the larger Woburn III. The Acton is the one you reach for when a full bookshelf system feels like overkill but a pocket speaker feels too small. This Hendrix edition doesn’t move that line, it only dresses the entry point in velvet.
Expect room-filling sound for a bedroom, home office, or kitchen counter, not the wall-shaking output of the larger two. Push a speaker this size into a big open room and it runs out of headroom, the tradeoff for the small footprint.
The same Acton III hardware underneath
Under the velvet, this is the standard Acton III, which is good news. It runs a three-amp setup: one 30W Class D amplifier for the woofer and two 15W Class D amplifiers for the tweeters. Outward-angled tweeters and updated waveguides widen the soundstage, and Dynamic Loudness keeps the mix balanced as you move the volume up and down.
On paper it’s modest: 45 to 20,000 Hz, 95 dB at one meter, a small bass-reflex box. Fine. The knobs earn their keep, because the knurled metal dials for volume, bass, and treble click under your fingertips and let you shape the sound by feel instead of burying EQ three menus deep in an app. Play, pause, skip, and source sit up top as well, so your phone can stay in your pocket.
Marshall also carries over placement compensation, which tunes the sound for whether the speaker sits against a wall, in a corner, or in the open. You set it once, and it’s the difference between boomy and balanced when your only free surface is a crowded shelf. None of it got cut to make room for the paint job.
Connectivity and build
Connectivity is Bluetooth 5.2, ready for Bluetooth LE Audio, with a 10 meter range, plus a 3.5 mm input for anything wired. LE Audio isn’t switched on yet, but the hardware is built for it, which opens the door to lower latency and future multi-stream playback once it arrives. There’s no Wi-Fi, microphone, or voice assistant, so this stays a plain Bluetooth speaker, and the Marshall app covers EQ presets and over-the-air updates.
At 2.85 kg and about the size of a lunchbox (260 x 170 x 150 mm), it’s a shelf speaker, not a party speaker, and there’s no water resistance rating, so keep it indoors. Pick it up and the crushed velvet nap grabs at your palm, a texture that photographs like luxury and collects dust like a magnet. Engineered in Sweden and built in Thailand, the shell is PVC-free, 70% recycled plastic, and vegan, so the retro costume skips the usual guilt tax.
Price and availability
The Acton III Marshall x Hendrix 60th Anniversary Edition is available now from Marshall for $299.99. That’s a premium over the standard Acton III, which regularly sells for less and has been discounted recently, so this edition is aimed at fans who want the Hendrix look rather than shoppers chasing the lowest price on Marshall sound.
Strip away the velvet and the math is simple: the audio, the amps, the app, and the controls are identical to the plain black or cream Acton III that Marshall will keep selling. If a spot on your shelf is as much about the object as the music, the finish justifies the markup. If it isn’t, the standard model gets you the same sound for less.
As a limited edition, stock is the wild card. Marshall hasn’t framed this as a permanent product, so if the design is your reason to buy, holding out for a deep discount is a gamble the standard Acton III never asks you to take.
Should you buy it
This one lands with two buyers: fans who want a piece of Hendrix history on the shelf, and listeners who already liked the Acton III and would pay a little more to skip the plain box. For them, $299.99 buys a distinctly different-looking speaker, not a reskinned afterthought.
Price: $299
Where to Buy: Marshall
Everyone else can skip it without a second thought. The Hendrix Acton III isn’t selling better audio. It’s selling the right to look at Jimi every time the music starts.
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