Vote for most important "Lansing" inovation

[Mr. Widget]

I choose the innovations in the 1500Al to make Alnico safe for rick and roll.

http://jbl.com/home/k2_story/k2_tech1.aspx

That is an awesome inovation... actually an awesome product all around!


BTW: Who's Rick?


Widget

[grumpy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0

[JBL Dog]

Large format 4300 series monitors and the entire Cabaret Series.

[Titanium Dome]

Since no one else will write about it, if the point of the thread is JBL innovation, then the EOS Waveguide is an actual, JBL, proprietary design. There have been waveguides of one sort or another around for awhile, but the EOS was a true innovation.

JBL's "blank CAD screen" approach to the LSR produced a number of innovations, not the least of which was the EOS:

Elliptical Oblate Spheroidal (EOS) Waveguide Designed for a targeted listening window of +/- 30° horizontally and +/- 15° vertically, the EOS provides a frequency response through the entire window of 1.5 dB from on-axis. This allows listeners, even far off-axis to hear an accurate representation of the on-axis response.

Not only did this design proliferate into most of JBL's consumer products, but it found imitators in other speaker lines, including by Widget's testimony to the folks at Revel into the Ultima2 line. Even the design freaks over at diyAudio credit the EOS with creating a movement in waveguide technology and they try to emulate it and improve it, usually with limited success. JBL did its homework on this design and it's pretty hard to beat in its intended application.

[speakerdave]

. . . . Who's Rick? . . . .

That's him there.

[Titanium Dome]

Is his last name Shaw?

[Mr. Widget]

...it found imitators in other speaker lines, including by Widget's testimony to the folks at Revel into the Ultima2 line.

I've said it before... in my opinion Revel is JBL. Even though GT would probably argue with me, I'd suggest the Ultimas are descendants of the L250/250Ti lineage and therefore part of our Lansing Heritage... flat ribbon wire and all.


Widget

[Mr. Widget]

That's him there.

I guess the "roll" part has to do with the instability in Rick's contraption.



Widget

[speakerdave]

I guess the "roll" part has to do with the instability in Rick's contraption. . . .

Oh, you've ridden in one.

[Ian Mackenzie]

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