I never have. I would love to get the chance.Originally Posted by Robh3606
Don
I never have. I would love to get the chance.Originally Posted by Robh3606
Don
John,
Great pickup.
Glad to see you are enjoying your revived JBL's.
Would be nice if you can post us a closer look.
Ian
Will do.Originally Posted by Ian Mackenzie
I had a thought the other day, while listening to just the mirrored pair and the 2 sub1500s, that I have another pair of boxes I built two years ago, not being used. Reworking the boxes by leaving the 8" driver holes where they are, on the wide face, pluging up the holes for the 066s and le5-9s and cutting out new holes on one end, at the same elevation as the pluged holes.
This configuation would simular to the Infinity Preludes, speakers that I auditioned in 2000, and thought were every bit as neutral sounding as the L212s. Just to see(hear) what improvement, if any, would take place.
Of coarse the Preludes come with a heathy price tag of over $12k for 5.2 system.
whej4312
btw, have you ever noticed that the size of the baffle of the Performance Series towers and driver placement is about identical to the L212s? And in the brochure for the L212 it sez that "the width of the cabinet is designed to create a front baffle surface that is effectively infinite for the high frequency radiator."
Although off setting the drivers two inches in has produced an even better soundstage, a better "center channel" in stereo playback.
So I guess at JBL, what goes around, comes around. Because here we are a quarter of a century later, 1977~2002 (the years that these two speaker systems were debuted) and the biggest difference in the L212 and Performance Series is what the drivers are made from, with the PS being Titanium.
Nice work John,
Would be interesting to hear your impressions with the spare box
I wish I had some spare JBL drivers to tee up a L212. Eventually I plan to built a ''good'' 4 way electronic crossover to play around with these concepts.
Ian
Yes it does, Beautifully put.Originally Posted by MJC
Thanks, finding the 066s and the le5-9/2105 are easy, its the 112A that took most of 2 years to get 4 of them, being they were only used in the L212.Originally Posted by Ian Mackenzie
I still haven't gotten around to buying some .005uF polystyrene caps to use as bypass caps for the 066s, but I did install polyproplene bypass caps for the 2105 and 112A.
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