I don’t mean to sound like I am worshiping at the temple of GT. There have been many excellent engineers at JBL, starting with Mr. Lansing himself. In my opinion most of the best engineering that has...
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I don’t mean to sound like I am worshiping at the temple of GT. There have been many excellent engineers at JBL, starting with Mr. Lansing himself. In my opinion most of the best engineering that has...
Do you mean loss of interest?
For me personally, I guess so... not completely, but as JBL has evolved from a company that supported almost every product they ever produced to one that barely...
Very cool! Nice looking speakers and a nice looking set up. Congratulations!
Thanks for sharing, please give us an update after a few weeks of listening.
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Absolutely Verboten!
I think there are very few loudspeaker companies who make their cones, spiders, and surrounds in-house.
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It gives them that smoky sound. :D
Last year I took a factory tour and watched them make the cones... pretty cool to see a paper cone being pulled out of a vat of slurry.
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They are almost $20K for a pair. But that does include the amps, active crossover, and DSP.
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This is the 12" two-way that has me excited. Not aesthetically, but it has a proper 4" compression driver and a tough as blazes 12" woofer. It has respectable bass performance solo, but is designed...
Cool, please post an update once you get them home. I'd love to hear your listening impressions as they break in and also would love to see photos.
The on-line images are not very good.
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Back when GT was still at Harman designing really amazing speakers like the Array Series, the S-9900s, the Everests etc., there were really good reasons to get excited by new speaker introductions....
I think there was a brief mention about them on a thread relating to new JBL introductions in Japan. Otherwise I don’t believe anyone has brought them up. To me they look like a product that was...