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Let's See Your Great JVC Gear!

The A-X2 was the first amp in my possession that I really liked. With precise and sensitive speakers at close(ish) range the sound engulfed the listener. At the top of that line is of course the M-L10 and accompanying preamp. That was always out of my range, but I did stumble on an A-X4 in bad shape. I refurbished and modded that one, and it just sounds amazing. Soon I hope to put it back to work, as I got a new job myself and probably have a few hours a day in my office, without a soul in the building yet. What an opportunity!

So now I'm looking for a nice pair of speakers to go with it. It can't be big flashy things because that would look weird in the office, and be impractical. The amp can handle low efficiency though, 4ohm's and the DC-servo allows for difficult speakers. I'll have to find something second hand, so.. general thoughts for a good match? I'm thinking probably 80's 2-way speakers maybe? Are any JVC speaker-series a good fit?

(If it's to much of a hijack just let me know, it was the M-L10 that got me thinking).
 
If you can find them, the aluminium cabineted S-M5, or the smaller S-M3 speakers are nice, they have a smooth top end thanks to the silk dome alnico tweeters.
 
Those S-M5 speakers look nicely discreet. And I think I know that tweeter, from some Dual speakers. That is a nice soundings tweeter, with a very wide *blast range". To bad the woofer of those Duals suck.
 
Can be found on the really old stuff (up to early 70's) more often. The Japanese would on occasion also put RCA's on the front (up to the mid 70's?). I suppose the idea was that you would use a mobile recorder, that you would want to be able to plug in and out easily. But I doubt it was used a lot like that..
 
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JVC XL-V3 1984 , pcm53 cdp

Working now. The die cast mechanism is heavy and over time the rubber suspension boots perish and sags on the front end. This drops the mechanism so the disc lays flat in the tray. I rotated the rubber suspension boots front to back and is working now.

Two layer board design.
 
Moving Ahead said:
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JVC XL-V3 1984 , pcm53 cdp

Working now. The die cast mechanism is heavy and over time the rubber suspension boots perish and sags on the front end. This drops the mechanism so the disc lays flat in the tray. I rotated the rubber suspension boots front to back and is working now.

Two layer board design.
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I have the silver version. Still working after fixing the broken plastic parts in the mechanism.

Let's See Your Great JVC Gear!

can we see more of the TT?
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Hi all!
I just finished recapping the GB-1Es, that were my Dads system, which I inherited.
Initial listen tests were a little disappointing. Not a lot of clarity, a bit dull sounding. Listening closely, some tweeters were not singing, and I thought, these will be a beotch to replace. I bought 1uf 100V caps and opened them up. Put a meter on all the tweeters, and all were good! Next connected them directly to the receiver for low volume testing, and all produced sound.Amazing how small modern lytic caps are. The disassembly & recap is very easy, 2 1uf caps per enclosure. I finished them this morning, and they now sound fabulous, as I remember as a kid growing up with this system. I also worked out some small dents in the metal sphere grills. They will need a light flat black spray paint. I have a resto thread, but want to include some pics here.
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Inherited stuff can be bittersweet. Seems like a high proportion of stuff "passed down" is archaic crap that doesn't work, or doesn't work right. Lots of junk goes straight into the dumpster when cleaning-out the house of folks who've shucked their mortal coil.

But returning some of it to functionality makes a long-lasting reminder of the better times with the "stuff" and therefore a reminder of better times with the person or people who had it to begin with.

Proud of you for dealing with those unique speakers.



I'd more-or-less quit listening to my system; it just wasn't "fun" any more. And then I re-capped the speakers. What an amazing difference!
 
Marc B said:
I hope you used non-polarized capacitors
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@GD70 you need to get non polarized caps for speaker crossovers.

your post here:

JVC GB-1E globe speakers

Anyone have any info on these? I bought them at a pawn shop. At first I thought they were 2 small cooking grills. Then I saw the wires and thought they were 2 extremely large microphones. I then realized they were speakers. They are pretty heavy and have drivers all around the globe. Not...
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shows it uses np caps


the ones you showed in post 894, 1st pic are polarized

Metalized Polypropylene Crossover Capacitors

Shop a large selection of Metalized Polypropylene Crossover Capacitors at Parts Express from top brands like Dayton Audio, Jantzen Audio, Audyn, and Solen.
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i used to own one of these in the early 90s and it was a great deck. so when i saw one come up local, and dude was willing to bring it across the bridge at 3am and meet me at casey's, i'm like , "bring it."

missing the level control "knob" but i think i can fab one.... don't care

the counter does not work.... don't care

the peak readout is dim and almost gone.... don't care.

it had ghosting in the meter segments but a recap of the regulated supply that feeds it fixed that. a few other caps in the signal path were replaced... good enough

something had been spilled inside ..sadly, cleaning this did not bring back the readout. still don't care.



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it works. cleaned the heads, calibrated the meters.

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secondary purpose is to play tapes

primary purpose is to look good in my black stack

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for $25
 
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painttoad said:
@GD70 you need to get non polarized caps for speaker crossovers.

your post here:

JVC GB-1E globe speakers

Anyone have any info on these? I bought them at a pawn shop. At first I thought they were 2 small cooking grills. Then I saw the wires and thought they were 2 extremely large microphones. I then realized they were speakers. They are pretty heavy and have drivers all around the globe. Not...
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shows it uses np caps


the ones you showed in post 894, 1st pic are polarized

Metalized Polypropylene Crossover Capacitors

Shop a large selection of Metalized Polypropylene Crossover Capacitors at Parts Express from top brands like Dayton Audio, Jantzen Audio, Audyn, and Solen.
www.parts-express.com
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Thanks for checking, they are non polarized.
 
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