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The SA was nice, but footprint big for my application.
Did some digging in my audio graveyard and came up with this ==>>>

works nice and sounds just as good as the SA with The CREEK amp & 18Ti's

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Owning Manny’s Music in Manhattan, he brought wah-wah to Hendrix and Clapton and connected musicians with equipment that helped define their styles.
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movie with great soundtrack

Pi - movie opening intro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHygMeYtREM&list=PL3k11n9MHfs24rj9bBPgBa5Y38_prPBbt&index=32

$204 , a lot less than 273 and that price includes shipping :)

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SW didn't recommend it , just posted an old review link :crying:

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>>Which BGW models would provide a more relaxed or warmer sound?

NONE...... they are NOT home hi-fi amps.....MILSPEC built Pro amps that are designed to provide copious amounts of clean,...

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I got a really nice deal on my 18ti's from a member here. Built just as well as full size JBL's and in VG condition... mostly bought for spare 044Ti's.
Demoed on my big system, didn't really care...

That SA is really well built . Didn't know I had one , still has price sticker from a thrift = $8.95 (probably got on a 50% day :) )
Have 2 or 3 of those Audio Control's in a stack somewhere. Never...

doing some "discovery cleaning" today in my audio graveyard and found a Spectro Acoustics 210R EQ that was long forgotten ... thot of RMC's post regarding SA.

powers up OK. :)

works GREAT :)...

not sure WHY either ... my BGW's seem to do nicely.

classic preamp ==>> https://www.stereophile.com/content/dynaco-pat-4-preamplifier

I'd go for the Speaker / Filter Foam (30 PPI) , but you only need about
1 cubic inch per speaker.

https://www.foambymail.com/SFF-/speaker-filter-foam-30-ppi.html

>>Matress foam, maybe?
I would GUESS that kind of foam is CLOSED cell ??

I would not bother with the tape/glue ... it's the 4 bolts that hold & center it. The tape just makes it more difficult as...

looks nice ...
for foam, I just went through old packing boxes and found some pliable, but firm open cell foam that was older, but didn't seem to deteriorate at all.

the hardest part (for me)...

that's a smaller L4 ... duh.

My son flew in from Chicago on the first for a weeklong visit. He has a sideline selling records on the web.
The flaw in his business is SUPPLY. Getting hard & harder to maintain his selling...

https://audiokarma.org/forums/index.php?threads/jbl-4430-speaker-connections-bare-wire-only.672374/

I'm cheap, so on the departed L7's , black shoe polish was my choice.
Seemed to work OK.
Not worth buying paint for such small touchups.

I was doing the "center channel shuffle" for a while , went thru 5 or 6 (including low/mid line JBL's) .... none ever quite right.

then, at a flea market I ran across one of these DefTech's .
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I have a CL505.

some here say "ok , it matches the L series style but doesn't match acoustically"

never stopped me. ;) ..it was OK, not great ...been replaced in my sys with better.

My pair are "box queens" , never have even put signal to them.

too many "more deserving" projects. ;)

we had 1962 UH-1b's in '70 after USA declared them unsafe.