Caption the JBL Fisheye Photo

[mech986]

After seeing the Catalog cover fisheye photo posted by Don, I got to thinking about what you might put as a caption or comment if you could. So, here goes:

JBL Garage/Tent sale, employees only in the morning. Grilles optional. 2 pair limit. Bring your own dolly. No trucks over 12 feet long.

http://www.audioheritage.org/images/jbl/photos/pro-speakers/thumbs/fisheye_small.jpg

Regards,

Bart

[speakerdave]

I'm intrigued by the ones at the back, just to the right of center, light colored cabinets, dark grille set on the one to the left:

Two 15" woofers--could be E145's
Domed 12" midbass
One of the round exponentials with 2308 (I would guess 2441 on 2311)
2405--can't see it, but I'm sure that's it.

Huge cabinet--I'd guess about 12 cu. ft.

The backset for the three top drivers suggests time alignment

David

[hapy._.face]

I'm intrigued by the ones at the back, just to the right of center, light colored cabinets, dark grille set on the one to the left:

Two 15" woofers--could be E145's
Domed 12" midbass
One of the round exponentials with 2308 (I would guess 2441 on 2311)
2405--can't see it, but I'm sure that's it.

Huge cabinet--I'd guess about 12 cu. ft.

The backset for the three top drivers suggests time alignment

David

Are you talking about the prototype 4350 (upright)?

[toddalin]

"... and I thought the women's locker room was behind that wall. Turns out to be Just Beautiful Ladies."

[hapy._.face]

"... and I thought the women's locker room was behind that wall. Turns out to be Just Beautiful Ladies."

Very close! Actually, I discovered (through extensive research) that wall opening leads to Japan. JBL had a secret tunnel built back in '72 for efficency. Saved a ton of money on exportation. How do you think all those monitors ended up over there?? :(

[Oldmics]

:D The World According to Widget :D

[Mr. Widget]

What d'ya mean?:D


Widget

[Don McRitchie]

I'm intrigued by the ones at the back, just to the right of center, light colored cabinets, dark grille set on the one to the left:

Two 15" woofers--could be E145's
Domed 12" midbass
One of the round exponentials with 2308 (I would guess 2441 on 2311)
2405--can't see it, but I'm sure that's it.

Huge cabinet--I'd guess about 12 cu. ft.

The backset for the three top drivers suggests time alignment

David

The system was the prototype for the 4350 developed in 1971 that was nicknamed the "Texas Bookshelf". It consisted of two 2216 woofers, 2130 midbass, 2440 midrange and 2405 tweeter. It was not specifically developed as a studio monitor, but was instead was meant as a showcase for JBL technology for the 1971 AES. The system drew considerable positive attention at the AES demonstration to the point that JBL decided to develop the prototype into a marketable system. A studio monitor made the most sense as the rise of rock music was placing unprecidented demands on output for which existing monitiors (4320, 604) were incapable of meeting. As a result, the system was evolved into the 4350 which was introduced in 1973.

The "Texas Bookshelf" was definitely not time aligned. Moving the 2440 even further back of the 2216's actually made time response worse than if they had been mounted on a common baffle. I'm guessing that the top module was recessed simply as a function of the small enclosure volume requirement for the 2130. The top module was independent of the lower enclosure so that smaller size and weight due to the reduced enclosure depth was probably considered an advantage.

[speakerdave]

I like it.

Thanks for the correction.

David

[Titanium Dome]

Caption: When vintage JBL lovers dream... :rotfl: :banana:






Honestly, you antique lovers crack me up! :wave:

[hapy._.face]

I like it.

Thanks for the correction.

David


Hey David,

I like that thing too! Riessen's "4351" is also very interesting..;)

http://www.audioheritage.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=6684&highlight=4351

T

[toddalin]

Honestly, you antique lovers crack me up! :wave:

And what is wrong with a few antiques? (Especially if you "hot rod" them!;) )

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/photopost/direct_data/1002/14790Attendies-med.jpg


http://forums.corvetteforum.com/photopost/direct_data/1001/14790moon_shot-med.jpg

[johnaec]

'Those all yours, Todd? Sweet! Is that gold coupe a '64? I'm still in love with the '63 coupe, (ever since the day it came out, even though I wasn't even old enough to drive...).

John

[toddalin]

The saddle tan '64 is mine, the rest are friends and acquaintences. This is from when I imported a hot shot Corvette tuner to come out from Denver and tune up nine of our cars one weekend.

He goes around the country tuning Corvettes for the cost of expenses (air fare, hotel, meals, car) and beer. It's actually called "Lars Tuning for Beer Tour" and it is through the CorvetteForum.com. We should do something like that here!:hmm:

I put it all together on the CorvetteForum and found more than the minimum number of people in the Southern California area that would commit and send me the money up front that you need to make something like that work. The nine of us split Lars expenses and I put he and his wife up with us and chauffered them around for 4 days to save us on expenses. Linda and his wife went to Dizzyland while we did the tune-up sessions. :D



'Those all yours, Todd? Sweet! Is that gold coupe a '64? I'm still in love with the '63 coupe, (ever since the day it came out, even though I wasn't even old enough to drive...).

John