Curious: L400??

[AmericanPie]

In the 1975 Consumer catalog a mention was made of a coming "L400" which never materialized, at least under that name. Does anybody know what became of it? Was the L212 the speaker (released, I think, in 1976 or '77) the model they were alluding to? :confused:

http://www.lansingheritage.org/html/jbl/catalogs/1975-home.htm

[grumpy]

http://www.audioheritage.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?23098-Are-these-L400-prototypes&highlight=l400


wander down to about post #14

[AmericanPie]

Interesting! This was right about the time JBL's prices were skyrocketing each year, so I suspect that pricing the system competitively WAS the primary problem with bringing it to market at that time. The engineers and product planners must have been frustrated; it would have been a nice offering.