"...After being on here for a little bit and looking around on eBay and other sites, I see that a lot of these vintage speakers go for a pretty penny.
Such speakers I am referring to are the 4341's, 4350's, 4333's, 4344's, etc, etc, etc... These loudspeakers have the MF and HF drivers scattered around on the baffle in no particular order...But considering modern loudspeaker design these days, there's a "normal" order of placement of the drivers on a baffle. IOW, all of the drivers are typically inline with eachother going up the baffle. Also, with modern designs, everyone strives to have a narrow baffle as well to help with defraction, imaging and soundstaging. Hence why small bookshelf speakers tend to image much better than larger tower speakers.
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So to my questions are:
How do these vintage JBL speakers stack up as far as imaging and soundstaging are concerned?
What is the driving force behind these speakers for demanding such a high $$$ resale value?
Are they more for "audiophile" grade listening, all out blasting dB's for miles
, or more of a collector's items?
..."Charles