Hilliard is the Zeus of the great Southern California Horn Gods. Or the Wotan if you’re German.
I’m very impressed by the Fletcher System (especially for it’s time). I enjoy learning about the history of these projects and the people behind them. It helps me better understand and appreciate where we are today.Let's go back a little further, Bell Laboratories.
Probably a little realistic bio on Dr J.K Hilliard, the actual engineer who mentored these other names so lovingly inflated to larger than life scale wouldn't hurt either. I mean, if we wanted to be truly comprehensive about it.
He was also apparently a close personal friend of Dr Blackburn.Hilliard is the Zeus of the great Southern California Horn Gods. Or the Wotan if you’re German.
The Shearer horn is where it all begins for me.I’m very impressed by the Fletcher System (especially for it’s time). I enjoy learning about the history of these projects and the people behind them.
Probably yes, but call it a tribute.hmm... James Martini. In the Maxell "blown away" picture featuring the L100s there is a martini glass also being blown away. Coincidence?
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The solution is to mount the Altec drivers in the walls and set the jbls in the corners then tell everybody the awesome sound is coming from the pretty little speakers.JBL enclosures of the 50 and 60's were, in my humble opinion, some of the most elegant designs I have seen.
The size of an enclosure is a by-product of the design, and not necessarily the driving force.
I have a pair of A-7's which I think are pretty awesome, but they ain't going in my living room.
The LH site is an old companion for many of us enthusiasts.Just wanted to post this link. I am new to this information but it really goes way back.
Knowing what I know now, I wish I had corresponded with JE about Jim Lansing's time in SLC Utah.The LH site is an old companion for many of us enthusiasts.
If you really want to get under the hood of the beast, it's not as easy as it used to be. But, patent searches are still your best friend.
Another good resource specifically on the Lansing topic is John Eargle's book "The JBL Story".
Martini and Decker moved to Los Angeles where they set up a business manufacturing loudspeakers. It was called the Lansing Manufacturing Company. Just before the company was registered on March 9, 1927, Lansing changed his name from James Martini to James Bullough Lansing at the suggestion of his future wife, Glenna.
Possibly. Or to have a last name that matched the name of the company he co-founded.I've googled it, but have never understood why he changed his name to Lansing. Was it an effort to avoid having a more ethnic-sounding name?
Don't know, good question.And did it have anything to do with the city in Michigan?
If that's the style you love then you can thank Alvin LustigI have the horizontal version of those, C38's.
The bio at the Lansing Heritage website is frustratingly unclear about that, or what the brand name the the Salt Lake City products carried. I do not recall ever seeing Salt Lake made Lansing anything there where I was raised, and I would have noticed. I am still trying to find info on his association with Nathaniel Baldwin during the Salt Lake City years, but perhaps should also namecheck "Martini" as well as Lansing.Possibly. Or to have a last name that matched the name of the company he co-founded.
Don't know, good question.