tommyjonBois
On the lookout always
@ Chris Brown. I have a buddy with Some L100Ts he will sell me today for 150.00 and I am buying them because you say they are good JBL speakers in a league outside of L100s.
Hey $60 can go a long way these days. I paid less for my Insignia bookshelves a few years back and I'd take those over a pair of L100s.
I just feel it's a shame, the number of people who base their entire opinion about JBL on the failings of the L100.
JBL diluted their brand, laid off all their CA staff and generally shot themselves in the foot when they should have been capitalizing on the "high-end" audio trend of the past 20+ years. That the Array 1400 is the best speaker no one has ever heard is not surprising. What they *should* have done (20/20 hindsight) is come up with a new brand (see Lexus/Acura/Infiniti playbook) and figured out a way to get JBL into audio showrooms next to all the other high-end speakers.
Sigh....that's not going to happen though. They will continue to make excellent state of the art horn-loaded speakers that will be sold mostly overseas except for a smattering of custom home theater dealers who carry the line in the USA. Like the one near me who had to get Harman to ship the Array 1400's down just so I could hear them. They stocked none of them.
jblnut
Mmmmm. $11,500 a pair and they are butt ugly. the vertical horn is a strange thing to witness for sure, no wonder it was a no go in the Japanese market, not much aesthetic at all. Bet they sound great though :yes::
They ARE butt ugly, they might do better to hide that horn in cabinet, the way Fulton hid the electrostatic array of the Model J. They could go back to old fashioned mid century JBL type cabinetry.
But what newer JBLs, Chris?
@ Chris Brown. I have a buddy with Some L100Ts he will sell me today for 150.00 and I am buying them because you say they are good JBL speakers in a league outside of L100s.
Just bought a pair of JBL CF 150s and they are sweet to my ears