New Speakers in Da' House- JBL S2600

Do they weigh 130 pounds each? Yikes, I hope you still have that hand truck at home. :yikes: Thanks for the link Carl.
 
Very nice-looking speakers, Joyce. I imagine you could really do some damage with those :D
 
Carl, those are the ones. 130 lbs each is about right. They are heavier than the Cornwalls....and yes, we did use the hand truck. These barely fit into the minivan with nothing but front seats in place...

I turned up the volume about 1/4 of the way while listening to the Count and I could feel the bass pumping in my feet....and the speakers are both sitting on sand boxes about 2 1/2 inches deep. There is one thing though. I'm probably going to need to make new sand boxes. The boxes were made to just fit under the Cornwall pedestals and not be seen...but now you can see them so I'm going to have to pretty that up some. I'm running them with the same set-up I had at the SACFest...MC30s and the Randall preamp except the main source is now records not CD.
 
Duffinator said:
So are the MC30's next in the upgrade path? :scratch2:
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Not even a consideration. I'd have to go a loooong way to improve those.


Zilch, thanks for the links. That's some great info and I love collecting reviews/articles on my equipment. :)
 
Very Nice Joyce...:yes:
They must be an amazing speaker system to have easily bested the CW's like that. Congrats, and count me impressed.



Bill
 
Thanks Bill.

These speakers are breaking in. I'm playing some classical now - barenboim - and the piano is wonderful. I'm going to have to drag out some Heifetz or Starker and take a listen to some strings too.

It's great getting new equipment and then listening to your music all over again and hearing it a little differently...a little more real. :music:
 
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Hey, who shrunk the woofers? Just kidding! Congrats on getting a great pair of speakers! I really enjoy my S3100's!
 
So are there any others speakers that use the same technology these do to compensate for off axis listening? Everest? I'm impressed.
 
DENNYDOG said:
So are there any others speakers that use the same technology these do to compensate for off axis listening? Everest? I'm impressed.
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Nope, the concept never caught on. For HT, the answer was center channel.

Long since discontinued, and a newer S3100 MKII version notwithstanding, there may still be a small remaining stock of horns in Europe, but we've had to clone the throats to make systems using them. They're not cheap, either, alas.

I've recently discovered a similar horn from another manufacturer, but haven't yet tried it in a system. It doesn't measure as well as the JBL original(s), but may be suitable for DIY, anyway.

In the final analysis, there're only one true "Sweet Spot," equidistant from the sources, but independent of phase and precedence, this concept plays a neat trick effectively enough to be disconcerting when first heard.

It grows on you after that.... :thmbsp:

Technical detalis of the controlled directivity horn behavior here:

http://www.jblpro.com/pub/obsolete/4660.pdf

http://manuals.harman.com/JBL/HOM/Technical Sheet/JBL S3100 MKII rev0 ts.pdf
 
Sorry to bring up a ridiculously old thread, but I was linked from the EWG thread. Very nice speakers, Joyce.
 
Those are sweet.. Glad the Monster is in the picture, sure gives a nice scale while looking at my Monster conditioner.. wow.. those things are big..
 
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