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I don't know if I have been away too long or something, but I can not seem to find a way to begin a thread. It's probably posted somewhere, but the forum search came up with nothing similar. I just...
Probably right, Riley,
We both did a lot of smallish bluegrass festivals in those days and he had decent sound, but as you mention, there was nothing down low in his rig. With doing bluegrass...
Not really wanting throw the "K word" around too much, here, but one of my early competitors in my budding sound reinforcement business had a system based on Klipsch La Scalas, in the early days. He...
I can also recommend shorting the terminals before shipping.
Might seem insignificant after packing them well, but why take a chance if you do not have to. Those cones are heavy.
I am not really sure as to the actual first time I encountered a JBL product in service, but all my early encounters were formative, to put it mildly. I was a teen in the '60s. My best guess would be...
To start, I have only had the pleasure to hear a Paragon once when I was a teen and it was placed dead center along the long wall of a very large room.
It made an impressive sound in mono with...
I work at a place that sold the now infamous Note 7 firebomb phones. When they started being returned, we were told to set up a security cage in the warehouse and place them all together into one...
My favorite monitor was D or K or E 130s with a simple bullet tweet.
There were times when a dual twelve K or E 120 and 2370/2425 type horn was better for acoustic performers.
One other thing I have learned over the years is that when determining polarity of unknown compression drivers and you do not have them apart because the work great, place a fine tape like packing...
I was very active in the '80s. That would have been a dream/drool studio to me when it was created.
All of my JBL equipment had a great deal of value in the late '90s when I "retired," so I ended...
While cordfail may be the least of their worries ...
I actually work part time in a " big box " type store and have had the opportunity to hear these little turkeys side by side against many of...
Very nice find.
I feel guilty sometimes. I have so many of these pieces just laying around from the old days, doing nothing, I forget that there is an entire continent (or two or three) having...
I have used A7s for many years, mostly in the early 70s as a way to make our mostly useless amps sound better.
These days, I see them as a jazz "Way to go!" really dynamic, type thing. Add a...
As has already been noted, your response to a fellow member is a bit one sided.
Some people have a hard time building from scratch and just as much trouble re-building to original condition....
A friend of mine called me on Sunday to tell me about some JBLs he had found in a construction project he is working on. (He is on constant search for anything JBL or Altec for me and has come...
Yeah, we always have to watch out for all that "pre '70s" beryllium copper, don't we?
:D
I cringe!!
Well, for my two channel rig I use an Open Box design, with JBLs handling the top and the mid and the two fifteens per channel on the bottom are never even challenged. Or sometimes just use my...
I have seen excessive diaphragm movement (thus, distortion, including voice coil rubbing sounds) from a loose spider or even a spider which has become unglued on one side, resulting in voice coil...
Glad someone mentioned this.
I have had successes using GPA for various compression driver diaphragms over the past few years and one instance of reconing a pair of 421A 15" drivers. Also they...
Back in the day, I used dual and quad fifteen, series/parallel JBL boxes by the buttloads, just stacked. Being that there is a delay (phase difference) between drivers run in series, it can certainly...
OK, different story.
I have used my 2240s inside, but never had the luxury of a truly adequate enclosure inside other than just party time in my dad's barn or something. I have always had to scale...
Sorry, just realized this was a zombie thread, as you called it.
I definitely feel better with a couple of fifteens or maybe twelves for some jobs to take your sound up to where a large...
So more concise ...
What he said!
The ONLY way you will ever know what a 2245 sounds like is to have one of those blown frames reconed by a reputable service with actual JBL parts. These parts are becoming rare and quite expensive. I...