Don, I just read your story about no JBL around the house. Great stuff. I have a few yrs on you, and was selling all that JBL while you were trying to save up for it. Worked for a company called Record World, Bay Shore, N.Y.
Company handled JBL, Bozak, KLH, Jensen, and a few other brands. The JBL's on hand were the L100's, L36, L16. Several different Record World stores in the area, all shared the JBL flagships. In our store, we had a pair of JBL Soverign's. I think they were about $1100 the pair. I thought they sounded terrible. Then again, the best stuff we had to drive it with was H-K Citation 11 and 12. We had all the big Pioneer receivers, as well as the Sansui's, and even a couple JVC's, but they didn't sound as good as the 60wpc Citation. IN MY OPINION. Even with the Citation I thought those Sov's sounded bad. I liked the Bozak 302, and the KLH 6. Also a little ADC job that was built like a brick.
I must've sold a hundred pair of L100's, as well as a ton of Pioneer 525, 535, 626, 636, 727, 737, 828, 838. The things that sold the absolute MOST, were the 10wpc Sansui 221 receiver, coupled with the Pioneer Project 40 and 60 speakers. Couple of those systems went out the door everyday. Oh yeah, we had Tandberg TCD-300 cassette decks too. THOSE were cool.
I met Julian Hirsch at Acoustic Research's 40th birthday bash at Grand Central Station in 1994. I don't think he believed me when I told him I had a fully functional AR Integrated Amp. I'm not sure Len Feldman was quite in the same league with the man who has never given a bad review.
Toasted Almond