MCM_Fan
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Not the Titanic. Or the Bismark.
Oink snort grunt oink snort.....wanders away....wonder where I laid that truffle down at?
Regards
Mister Pig
A rising tide lifts most boats?
A rising tide lifts all pigs?
Not the Titanic. Or the Bismark.
Oink snort grunt oink snort.....wanders away....wonder where I laid that truffle down at?
Regards
Mister Pig
I think the funny thing is everyone seems to be assuming these are just re-booted JBL L100's.
I don't speak for everyone, just myself. That said, the audio hobby for me is part listening, part restoring, part collecting. Vintage audio covers all three bases. New covers only one base and that is listening. There is no collecting or restoring involved in new. It's just buy, hook up, listen.....boring. The vintage purchase is like this.....search long and hard, buy, restore, hook up, listen. Much more fun than new. The vintage audio gear also has more coolness factor.
You can call it my loss and narrow minded on my part for excluding new gear, but the new audio gear hobby is just plain no fun no matter how it sounds. I like to restore and listen to my restoration rather then buy it, hook it up and call it a done deal. I listen to the gear (my restored gear) and the music, not just the music. Listening to vintage gear is part of the hobby to me.
These are targeted at people with a more refined taste that don't want used shit.
The Lancer models had the white woofer and they were around before the L100.I am not a JBL historian but it seems to me that along with the Quadraflex foam grille the OTHER world renowned feature of the L100 (at least for the mass market) was the white woofer. That feature was copied 100x more than the waffle grilles. Were other JBL woofers out with white cones before the L100?
... People who prefer German cars to Detroit Motor Cities finest...
Highly unlikely.JBL's new L-100 is on my audition list as soon as I can hear a pair. I sincerely hope they are made in the USA however.
I dig it.
Maybe I'm just too old-skool.
To me the LPads plate looks 'consumer' and less 'pro'. I liked the old ones, with the recessed slot adjustment and horizontally preferred 'nearfield look' silver foil sticker setup. I like the S/N stamped in the foil. Port looks ugly too and the bass driver looks a bit too 'refined'.
I like to see the tinsel wire/voice coil black and the smaller dustcap. Actually, I wish they had duplicated everything (even the white grille mount spigots) except used better drivers and tuned the cabinet to suit.
I want to see and hear them in the flesh however.
I saw your pic on Sterophile...here's another. They look like a cheap, mass produced box to me. I think they're being made in China.