Heinz
11-12-2005, 08:57 AM
Hi every one!http://audioheritage.org/vbulletin/images/smilies/smile.gif
New on the forum..... but have lurked around for som time now.
The reason im posting is that i found my dream loudspeaker L300 on a Swedish advertising board and want to share my story.
Everything started 1978 when i boght my L19 speakers. The dream then was the L300. That speaker cost so much money here in Sweden so that was only fore the rich people.
5 years ago the dream started again. Reading magazines and different webbpages searching for the ultimate speaker gave result last Friday.
Reading on the "Blocket" site www.blocket.se (http://www.blocket.se/) i found a guy that have a pair of L300 for 7000:- Sek ( 680 $ ) Quick call to the guy and weryfying questions we came to a deal that he should e-mail me some pictures.
Reacived the picturs late Friday evening an made a quick call to the seller and tell him i want the L300. He told me that the first one that show up in his place get the speakers. He promised mee to hold the speakers until early saturday morning when his girlfrend goes to work. I asked him if he be up 7.00 !!!! il be there then. This was 22.00 friday evening and i told my wife Annki that il shuld travel up to Örebro ( Middle of Sweden ) and thats 500km of traveling in the middle of the night. She saw that my dream was verry close now an told me to drive slow and no speeding!!!! http://audioheritage.org/vbulletin/images/smilies/tongue.gif
Started 3.00 in the morning. Everything went smoth until half way to Örebro. Looking in my rear mirror i saw a car closing upp fast.... Ok i vas driving over the limits too an had a 6:th sense tha this could be the police!!!!!
Was i right YEEEESSSS!!!http://audioheritage.org/vbulletin/images/smilies/biggrin.gif Pulled me over and asking for the drivinglicence. Some questions from the guys and i was siting in the car. They tried to trick me to say how fast i was driving but i was tricky toohttp://audioheritage.org/vbulletin/images/smilies/biggrin.gif http://audioheritage.org/vbulletin/images/smilies/biggrin.gif http://audioheritage.org/vbulletin/images/smilies/biggrin.gif . Suddenly one of the police guys started asking questions on my car. Lycky me....he was a car entusiast also!!!! My Mercedes C43 AMG was in his taste and he told his friend to get out of here an told me to take it easy. Puuuu that was close for my driving licence.
Later i arived in Örebro and Mattias the guy vith the speakers was a realy nice guy ant telling me the stories on how he bought them and who the guy was that originaly bought them new. A close inspection of the speakers and handed over 7000:- sek to Mattias.
Wow.... im in heaven now!!! http://audioheritage.org/vbulletin/images/smilies/smile.gif
Mattias helped me with the speakers and we realy had problem to get them in the car whitout doing damage on the spakers or the car interior.
9.00 in the morning i went home and arived 6h later in Halmstad. The trip back vas like a dream. 6h feelt like 10 min.
Unlodead the speakers at my office with help from our son Andrée!! First question from him was: have "mum" seen those!!!! they are huge!!!
Later that day Annki saw the speakers and told me we have to se how they looks when you are ready with the restauration. If they fit in with the outher furnitures.
Restauration begins:
Made a call to LN Högtalarservice i Gothenburgh (LN Loudspeakerservice). Olle and Urban at LN have worked with JBL speakers for 30 years an have fixed my L19 for refoaming for 2 years ago and they have the foam in stock for my L300. They told me that not many L300 vas sold her in Sweden an there is 3 Paragon speakers in Sweden.
Ordered new glass with the corect thiknes after some investigation on how they were made and right color. ( Thanks to Olle att LN for info )
Next is the Cabinet. One scratch and two compressions in the wood on the rounded corner need to bee fixed. Taking in a expert on wood to get the right wood color back to New. Need to fix the black surface on the stand. And doing a analyze on the paint to get it absolutly right.
The grills have som stains and need to be fixed. One cross member ned to be duplikated to get them "as new".
My goal is to get they as close to "Mint" as posible.
I have some questions for you Guys here on the forum. Should i replace the cable conectors with some new gold plated???.
The original is so "Tiny" and you cant conect a good cable.
If i replace the conectors, Would you think this ruins the walue as a original speaker???
The same question is about the membrans. Change the Aluminium to Titan ??
Thanx in advance for your input!!!
/Heinz J Söderström
Sorry bad spelling and gramma, English is not my native language!!!!http://audioheritage.org/vbulletin/images/smilies/smile.gif
New on the forum..... but have lurked around for som time now.
The reason im posting is that i found my dream loudspeaker L300 on a Swedish advertising board and want to share my story.
Everything started 1978 when i boght my L19 speakers. The dream then was the L300. That speaker cost so much money here in Sweden so that was only fore the rich people.
5 years ago the dream started again. Reading magazines and different webbpages searching for the ultimate speaker gave result last Friday.
Reading on the "Blocket" site www.blocket.se (http://www.blocket.se/) i found a guy that have a pair of L300 for 7000:- Sek ( 680 $ ) Quick call to the guy and weryfying questions we came to a deal that he should e-mail me some pictures.
Reacived the picturs late Friday evening an made a quick call to the seller and tell him i want the L300. He told me that the first one that show up in his place get the speakers. He promised mee to hold the speakers until early saturday morning when his girlfrend goes to work. I asked him if he be up 7.00 !!!! il be there then. This was 22.00 friday evening and i told my wife Annki that il shuld travel up to Örebro ( Middle of Sweden ) and thats 500km of traveling in the middle of the night. She saw that my dream was verry close now an told me to drive slow and no speeding!!!! http://audioheritage.org/vbulletin/images/smilies/tongue.gif
Started 3.00 in the morning. Everything went smoth until half way to Örebro. Looking in my rear mirror i saw a car closing upp fast.... Ok i vas driving over the limits too an had a 6:th sense tha this could be the police!!!!!
Was i right YEEEESSSS!!!http://audioheritage.org/vbulletin/images/smilies/biggrin.gif Pulled me over and asking for the drivinglicence. Some questions from the guys and i was siting in the car. They tried to trick me to say how fast i was driving but i was tricky toohttp://audioheritage.org/vbulletin/images/smilies/biggrin.gif http://audioheritage.org/vbulletin/images/smilies/biggrin.gif http://audioheritage.org/vbulletin/images/smilies/biggrin.gif . Suddenly one of the police guys started asking questions on my car. Lycky me....he was a car entusiast also!!!! My Mercedes C43 AMG was in his taste and he told his friend to get out of here an told me to take it easy. Puuuu that was close for my driving licence.
Later i arived in Örebro and Mattias the guy vith the speakers was a realy nice guy ant telling me the stories on how he bought them and who the guy was that originaly bought them new. A close inspection of the speakers and handed over 7000:- sek to Mattias.
Wow.... im in heaven now!!! http://audioheritage.org/vbulletin/images/smilies/smile.gif
Mattias helped me with the speakers and we realy had problem to get them in the car whitout doing damage on the spakers or the car interior.
9.00 in the morning i went home and arived 6h later in Halmstad. The trip back vas like a dream. 6h feelt like 10 min.
Unlodead the speakers at my office with help from our son Andrée!! First question from him was: have "mum" seen those!!!! they are huge!!!
Later that day Annki saw the speakers and told me we have to se how they looks when you are ready with the restauration. If they fit in with the outher furnitures.
Restauration begins:
Made a call to LN Högtalarservice i Gothenburgh (LN Loudspeakerservice). Olle and Urban at LN have worked with JBL speakers for 30 years an have fixed my L19 for refoaming for 2 years ago and they have the foam in stock for my L300. They told me that not many L300 vas sold her in Sweden an there is 3 Paragon speakers in Sweden.
Ordered new glass with the corect thiknes after some investigation on how they were made and right color. ( Thanks to Olle att LN for info )
Next is the Cabinet. One scratch and two compressions in the wood on the rounded corner need to bee fixed. Taking in a expert on wood to get the right wood color back to New. Need to fix the black surface on the stand. And doing a analyze on the paint to get it absolutly right.
The grills have som stains and need to be fixed. One cross member ned to be duplikated to get them "as new".
My goal is to get they as close to "Mint" as posible.
I have some questions for you Guys here on the forum. Should i replace the cable conectors with some new gold plated???.
The original is so "Tiny" and you cant conect a good cable.
If i replace the conectors, Would you think this ruins the walue as a original speaker???
The same question is about the membrans. Change the Aluminium to Titan ??
Thanx in advance for your input!!!
/Heinz J Söderström
Sorry bad spelling and gramma, English is not my native language!!!!http://audioheritage.org/vbulletin/images/smilies/smile.gif