Recieived 4435's Yesterday

[mick c]

Hey guys, I received my 4435's yesterday. After a week of been dicked around by the removalists, they turned up. I was a little dissapointed as they got damaged a little in transit. (easy fixed). Well I hooked them up and eq'd them to my room and nothing could have prepaired me for the instant smile on my face. These things are great, very smooth, the vocals are wonderful and the dynamics and head room would have rattled old mates teeth out down the road!!!. Lately i've been listening to my 604-8ks in 9cift bins and thought they were nice, but after listening to the 4435's I thought what a waste of money buying the Altecs. To compare the 4435's to the 4350b's that I had, is about as different as light and day. My memory of the 4350b's was loud and in my face, and always felt they needed tobe in an auditorium to appreciate. The 4435's by contrast seem more suited to my listening enviroment. The 4435's are very easy to listen to, and placement dosent seem to be a big issue. The biggest thing I noticed was there is no real listening sweet spot, and they fill the room with a wonderful sound stage.
Brass instruments sound full and ballsy, and drums sound like drums not sticks hitting carbord. After a while I found myself lost in the music, and the speakers just dissapeared. Yes I'm happy.
Mike..

[JBL Dog]

Hey guys, I received my 4435's yesterday. After a week of been dicked around by the removalists, they turned up. I was a little dissapointed as they got damaged a little in transit. (easy fixed). Well I hooked them up and eq'd them to my room and nothing could have prepaired me for the instant smile on my face. These things are great, very smooth, the vocals are wonderful and the dynamics and head room would have rattled old mates teeth out down the road!!!. Lately i've been listening to my 604-8ks in 9cift bins and thought they were nice, but after listening to the 4435's I thought what a waste of money buying the Altecs. To compare the 4435's to the 4350b's that I had, is about as different as light and day. My memory of the 4350b's was loud and in my face, and always felt they needed tobe in an auditorium to appreciate. The 4435's by contrast seem more suited to my listening enviroment. The 4435's are very easy to listen to, and placement dosent seem to be a big issue. The biggest thing I noticed was there is no real listening sweet spot, and they fill the room with a wonderful sound stage.
Brass instruments sound full and ballsy, and drums sound like drums not sticks hitting carbord. After a while I found myself lost in the music, and the speakers just dissapeared. Yes I'm happy.
Mike..

Mike:

Nice score on the 4435's. I'm with you on the 4435/4350B comparison, though I have a "like" comparison A/B-ing 4430's and 4343's. The 4343's can wear you down after a while. 4430's seem to be smoother and not so "in-your-face". Enjoy!

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[4313B]

The 4343's can wear you down after a while.

Ditto - 4331/4333/4343/4350

[Zilch]

The biggest thing I noticed was there is no real listening sweet spot, and they fill the room with a wonderful sound stage.

Constant directivity RULEZ!

[Guido]

I'll have to speed up my cabinet builder. The plans, xovers, speakers and horns for the 4435 sitting on the shelf for one year now.
Time to taste them
With Zilchs help we might be able to even improve those babies

[Ken Pachkowsky]

I have to listen to a pair of those. Nothing but positive reviews everywhere I have seen comments.

Congrats on your new monitors.

Enjoy

Ken

[mikebake]

Let me join the huzzah.
Finally got my 4430's up and running.
Never heard them before either. Gave a preliminary listening with my HT receiver. Was not the right setup. Hooked up my ballsy vintage integrated tonight ( a 45 lb. late 70's Yamaha CA1010) with a Sony CD, fired it up with some good discs............hmmm, interesting.
These things do lots of interesting things.
I like them, probably alot.

They get louder in direct correlation to the volume knob. Not many do in a correct manner.

They sound good when I am near the receiver changing volume.

They have really good bass.

They overcome much of what I never liked about two-way speakers.

There is still a little fuzz/overwarmth in the upper vocal range, like most JBL two ways using pro drivers. But the more good things you look for, the more is there.

Surprise; they have an expansive sound at low levels.

Surprise: they sound full at low levels.
They are sounding really full with quite little power. Hmmm. I did not expect this.
They do not need power at all to get going. The Yamaha has a beefy power supply, and apparently controls these things decently, and with this amp, again, they sound amazingly full at very low power.
No tone control used, switched out. Speaker controls at -1.5 on mids and ) on highs.

Seductive.

Gets the bass right.

Puts out the (music/song)power that it gets in.

Wow. Sounds so rich at very low levels. Amazing.

So as Giskard ends his habitation with 4430's after all these years, I take up the same babe as my new mistress...........ha! He'll be back...........

[mick c]

Hi mike, you hit on the one important thing I didn't mention, my 4435's rock at low levels!!!!!!!!! my neighbours may even start talking to me again. Seriously these things are deffinatly the cure for my speaker needs. I think now I can buy a nice power amp and receiver and start enjoying the music and not the machinery that reproduces it. So where do I find an amp forum? mmmmnn.....
Mike..

[Guido]

Mike, post some pics!

Yes. I know how a 4435 looks. But we wanna see YOURS

[jbl]

I heard the 4435's back in 1985. Still the best system I've ever heard. Effortless and natural at any volume.

Ron

[mick c]

I am going to take some pics this weekend, and will get them posted early next week.

[evans224]

Those would be fun to listen to. Problem is, I'm sure to want to buy them.........

[mikebake]

Be srue to read this, too, for some general insight on 4430's/4435's.

http://www.jblpro.com/pub/technote/tn_v3n01.pdf

[majick47]

Mick c re finding an amp forum I think you will be able to get plenty of good advice right here at Lansing Heritage. Don't know how much $$$ you can afford to spend on what sounds like an amp and preamp. If your budget is under $1,000 I would be looking at preowned Yamaha M or MX series 260 watt amps and a matching Yamaha preamp. Also the Yamaha professional series amps can be had for often times less money then the Yamaha home audio equipment. Maybe JBLNUT will pick up on this thread and give you some expert advice as to which model Yamaha amp/preamp would do your 4435 justice. Reason for suggesting the Yamaha equipment is that it is reasonably priced, available, powerful, clean, reliable and very sellable if you ever decide to trade up.

[jblnut]

Hi mike, you hit on the one important thing I didn't mention, my 4435's rock at low levels!!!!!!!!! my neighbours may even start talking to me again. Seriously these things are deffinatly the cure for my speaker needs. I think now I can buy a nice power amp and receiver and start enjoying the music and not the machinery that reproduces it. So where do I find an amp forum? mmmmnn.....
Mike..

Hi Mick,

As others will tell you, I'm a pretty big fan of the vintage Yamaha Pro gear. You can get some very good buys on this stuff now as studios are selling off their old amps. Just search the forums for Yamaha Amp and you'll see some of the discussions we've had. You might also want to check out the "baddest yamaha amp" thread in the Marketplace section. I stumbled onto a seller in NYC who just bought 6 PC4002M's from a studio liquidation. These are 430 watt/channel, 100lb monsters that were $5k each in the early 80's. The build quality is unbelievable and they'll probably outlive us all . You just can't beat them (imho) for the money.

PM me if you want more info or suggestions....

Other good choices in the amp arena would be (in no particular order) Crown (others here can suggest models), Carver (TFM series is best), or Yuri's PSS gear.

You've got some incredible speakers there - now you need a serious amp to drive them with !

jblnut