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I carried on a thread a few years ago regarding putting together a pair of monitors along the general idea of the JBL 4333s. I made a handful of compromises (against the advice of some forum members)...

I have a pair of 2461 compression drivers in a pair home built 4333a studio monitors. I would like to replace the 2461s with the 2420. I am wonding if it is possible to simply replace the 2461...

Marantz HD880s

I have had a pair of HD880s for about 15 years. I traded a 1960s Fender Jaguar for them (a mistake in that that guitar is now worth $3,000 I think). I really like the speakers...

The autotransformers seem to be a bit more of a puzzle than I need right now. I found the schematic for the Giskard-modified 3133 crossover where the bandpass section is revised to avoid the...

Crossover networks 101
John,
thanks for the hopeful note on the 2461s. I have always found them to sound pretty good in the slant monitors that they are in, albiet with quite a bit of graphic EQ...

John,
thanks for the hopeful note on the 2461s. I have always found them to sound pretty good in the slant monitors that they are in, albiet with quite a bit of graphic EQ help.

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yggdrasil,

The plan was to use the 2461 for the mids from about 800 to 8000. Your idea to put the Altec 808-8A in for the upper midrange never crossed my mind. When you say that the 2461 lacks...

SpeakerDave,
I can see that there are several significant compromises (perhaps hideous compromises to the purists) in the design that I have scratched out. Nevertheless I am committed to certain...

Thanks for pointing me to the network schematics. :)

I have assumed up to this point that the 4220 and the 4205 drivers in the 4333 monitor were both "16 ohms." The 4220 seems to only come as...

Hey all,
I have had some 70s JBL and older Altec stuff in my basement for a while and have decided to make some use of at least some of it. I would like to make a pair of studio monitors in the...