Hopefully this is the right section. As I mentioned on the " What's in your JBL collection thread" I have a couple projects I will be getting underway soon.
I am a lover of tube systems and two way speaker systems. I have a couple 300b tube setups and the magic formula for me seems to be a compression horn with a 15 inch woofer or so. I've been tinkering with Altec stuff for the last couple years and I also have an affinity for Lowther drivers. I registered locally for the speaker rescue team, they have a way of following me home like lost little puppy dogs.
I'm not very technical but I seem to memorize things that work. Assembling things is right up my alley since I am well versed with a crescent wrench. Woodworking skills are ehhh...you would be surprised how difficult it is to cut straight lines and round circles. I try to avoid this type of work but can hack and whack my way around. I think I'm getting better at soldering, lately I made a few sets of inter connects, it involved cutting, assembling and soldering and all the blue smoke stayed in the wires this time. In case you are wondering where this is heading, you'll probably see that I'll be asking a lot of questions down the road.
So, you may be asking how I ended up here. One of my SET buddies, the guy that builds my amps has been raving about a JBL 4320. We both have Altec A5's but he also scored a JBL 4320 and has been trying to help me acquire a pair. To make a long story short I ended up here comparing 4320's with L200's and that's how I ran into Heather. I listened to her modified L200 and loved it, it seems I missed the 5 day window when she thought about selling them. I loved the 2397 horn she had on it and the tweeter was also very nice. So, I ended up acquiring her empty cabinet.
So here's where I am so far. I have the cabinet
And a pair of 2397 horns that need to be painted.
I also have one 4331 crossover ...more on that later
I should be picking up a single 2405 tweeter tomorrow and a couple brackets for it.
I'll also be looking for the following:
2 - 2328 2 inch horn adapters - to mount the driver to the 2397 horns
2 - 2445J drivers for the 2397 Smith's horn
2- bass drivers , Heather is using 2234s I think and I'll need to understand the difference between them and 2235s. Not sure which one I'll need yet
2- Lpads? think I'll need a pair of those
1- L200 cabinet
Anyway, looks like I'll be stuck in the finding an L200 cabinet stage for a while. There were a pair for sale near Baltimore on CL that I missed out on. Note to self, I should have gone to get them when they were available. Ah well...
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Originally Posted by grumpy
