The JBL 4345 Club

[spwal]

great pictures! your english is fine! welcome to Lansing Heritage

spwal

Hello Boputnam

All pairs the JBL 4345 are complete originate - original speakers. Monitors are in good condition. One pair JBL 4345 I'm using at home in the Bratislava capital of Slovakia (60km near the Vienna capital of Austria). Next pairs needs repair of foam surrounds (Bass and Mid-Bass).
The monitors originate from government purchase at early 80th to the National Radio in Czechoslovakia (like BBC in GB). This monitors was used in professional recording and broadcast studios.
Sorry, actually I have only these two pictures:

http://jmd.szm.sk/Audio/Loudspeakers/JBL4345.jpg

http://jmd.szm.sk/Audio/Loudspeakers/18palec.jpg

Sorry my English is rather poor and I apologies for it.


Bohdan

[Mr. Widget]

great pictures! your english is fine! welcome to Lansing Heritage

DITTO!

Those are beautiful. I assume that getting them properly reconed or refoamed in Slovakia may be difficult. You may want to try to do a refoam yourself before going to a full recone.

Check out this thread:

http://www.audioheritage.org/vbullet...read.php?t=469


Widget

[hjames]

That is VERY VERY cool - the Big 'uns!
JBL fans and collectors are EVERYWHERE!

[richluvsound]

Congratulations,

What an entrance ! what a find. They would fetch a heck of a lot of money in Russia.
Between you , and your friend ,you have 5% of all production of that monitor.

Rich

[Fangio]

5 pairs?? Awesome.. the pair shown looks quite unmolested cosmetically. Nice pics, keep them coming..

In particular pics of the original installation at the National Radio studios might be of interest for this site - do you by chance have access to some? And are the grilles & lenses present also? Oh, and welcome to the LH forums from here too.

[pos]

Between you , and your friend ,you have 5% of all production of that monitor.

There were only 100 pairs ever made?? are you serious?

[richluvsound]

Pos,


thats what I heard. Perhaps someone else could chip in with fact !

Rich

[spwal]

Not to digress, but 4341 short production life probably means limited numbers as well right?

[JBL 4645]

Oh yeah I can hear those super highs above 20 KHz!

Still can’t get over the shear size of those and placing nipper in the middle shows the scale of the JBL4345 I think he has a future in JBL advertising.

[Rolf]

JBL 4645: You don't own these speakers. Nor do I. So why comment in this thread? I don't. I only got the 4343B's.

Don't like to get in here, but:

Please keep your comments to what you have an idea to talk about.

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[Ian Mackenzie]

That was a nice picture.

Welcome.

Fangio, use the ignore button.

[richluvsound]

Does that work ? I mean, if you put someone on your ignore list it deletes their post from any thread you happen to be READING ?

[hjames]

Does that work ? I mean, if you put someone on your ignore list it deletes their post from any thread you happen to be READING ?

No, IGNORE simply sets the site to not display the contents of posts from those on your ignore list. You see their name and date, but the contents (and images and such) doesn't display. I find it annoying, but less annoying than the alternatives

[cooky1257]

Great score!
Are these new photo's of them at home or actual archive photos of when they were used to torture small children in Slovakias darker times;-)
Jokes aside apart from the foams they look in fabulous condition.
Frank

[JMD]

Thank you everyone for welcome.
Unfortunately I haven’t pictures of original the JBL installations from Slovak National Radio. But I will try get them.
Lenses are missing on all pairs. Is it a fail? I think their function is only lateral acoustic dispersion.
I have only two pairs completed grilles. But one pair grilles are broken. One pair has repaired foam on bass and mid-bass. This pair I use at home. Repair kit for foam surrounds I have bought in http://www.audiofriends.nl/speakerfoam/en/
Some pairs of these speakers were repaired 20 years ago (bass and Mid-bass). Speaker repair - recone was made in authorization service the H-PRO for the Czechoslovakia. Speakers repair – originaly recone in our country is cheap. Two bass and two mid-bass about 600€ in autorization service JBL.

Bohdan