Thanks Boputnam, hehe, yeah here we are again
I think what David said was correct but misunderstood. The factory wiring had the white/black striped wires female connector on the LE5s male connector as the ---< shows. I think the misunderstanding stems from the fact that the white/black wire connects to the male/neg side of the LE5 then goes to a terminal on the crossover marked negative which is how the average joe (like me) sees it. When in fact that negative midrange terminal is routed to the positive rear input via the Lpad and PC board which isn't noticed until one starts tracing back that circuit. You don't see that swap up on the schematic, only on the actual crossover markings. The terminals aren't shown on the schematic. So, the LE5 is out of phase with the LF and HF. Of course, this is all true if the LE5 negative is indeed the male, there are no red dots or anything on the LE5s I have (four of them) compounding the confusion, I'm trusting from another thread on this site that the females are positive, males negative on the LE5s.
My big problem was that the handwired xover was in the vintage factory mode but the pc board model had been reversed as you said, so they were out of phase up to now with regard to the other speaker. I read about the mids possibly being 180 out of phase on the 112s but until you look at the schematic then the crossover it isn't all that clear, but they are. To make matters worse, the 044 has a + stamped into the casting where the negative terminal is. Still waiting on the verdict for that one. I hooked up following the schematic and JBLs original wiring and connector scheme thinking maybe the diapram was install backward and that I could trust the terminal gender to set things straight.