Your best JBL find

[SEAWOLF97]

LOL
I'm an Audi guy now.

I think the fastest car that I've driven was an Audi turbo quatro coupe.. It was an autherntic Pikes Peak racer and they wernt really selling it, just showing...dont know how I got a demo drive...do remember that I got it up to 60mph in 2nd , and it was a 5 speed.

2md fastest was prolly a BMW 645ci convertable...looked like a Chrysler Sebring..but went like WOW and sounded like a 60's muscle car !!

I just did the microfilter on my '95 and it took about a half-hour including vacuuming out the compartment. No, it's not my first time and, yes, it is helpful to like being upside down!.

I was upside down with one hand on the flashlight , one on the Bentley manual and one on the screwdriver and feet in the air ...and you needed to be a contortionist to reach the filter behind the console,,,then getting the glovebox back in and locking ...whew ... mebbe could get it down faster the second time....
I had driven 525's but they seemed gutless, bought a 535 (E34) and Jim C chipped it ...fast and well balanced ,,the 540 is a beast,but doesnt handle quite as well ...When I worked in Washington, I'd floor it on the bridge onramp,,,I set my hi-speed warning chime at 75mph,,,and set it off at abt 2/3 up the ramp, would make abt 90 when it was time to junp on the brakes to merge into traffic

[bakes837]

So far...

4412s, beautiful but needed refoaming, $100 and started the addiction... L100 Centuries, beautiful shape except for the grill and tweeter foams, $150 and the original owners threw in the freshly serviced HK 930 receiver to power them... 4312Bs, needed one woofer, $100... L100Ts, fine shape, needed a tweeter and refoaming, $100... 4311 single wreck, free... L36s, beautiful but need refoaming, $75...

And is it just me, or are there any speakers that are more satisfying to work on than JBLs?

[jcrobso]

I got a pair of 4560 cabinets loaded with 2205s from a dumpster.

[Tim Rinkerman]

A pair of 4333B's, needing foam and missing their lenses removed from the walls of a small theatre. I discovered them on the electrician's cart on the way to the dumpster....he asked me if I could give him a hand throwing them into the dumpster.."they're so fr**** heavy! " Needless to say, they bypassed the dumpster, and went into my van...I've been smiling ever since! That was 12 years ago.... Refoamed the edges, found a set of NOS lenses..I told my son they can use one for my headstone....

[SEAWOLF97]

Oh ? we're back ON TOPIC again ???

my 3 pairs ( 6 speakers) of L-166's cost a total of $75
the L100's were $4
recently acquired L26 pair was $2.50

a guy I know picked up pristine L65's
with glass tops...just needed foams for $15 at a garage sale recently.

[lgvenable]

$10.00 at a garage sale near West Bend IN, the lady said she needed to get rid of her hubby's garage speakers, they were in pristine shape, and played perfectly.

[Triumph Don]

L-150's, recent [good] refoams at a moving sale last September. Combined with a Carver 1.5T, C-1 preamp, C-11 tuner, sony CD 5 disc player. Original boxes and paperwork. All for $350. Gave the Sony to my driver with the truck, sold the 1.5T on ebay for $360. Beat that! Free 150's with another $250 for lunch money. Oh well. May not ever happen again!

[Cavalryman40]

My best JBL find pales compared to some of the ones on here, but I will tell about them anyway.

The first was one I missed, they were sitting in a driveway during a garage sale. My wife was driving and I jumped out of the car while she was still moving. They were a mint pair of L200B's. Flawless, I asked they guy how much, and he said $250.00. As I was asking another guy handed him a check for them. A CHECK! I offered cash but no deal, he said they were sold.

Last week I picked up a decent pair of 4311 WXA's for $10.00 at a thrift store. Nice shape and they sound great. They need new grills.

[CountD]

My best find was a pair that you might have seen on that auction site - a set of original C533s - the original JBL made to design specs for the late, great C. Robert Fine. I have not found much info on them, but every time I have studied them I have become awed by JBLs approach to design and simplicity, how novel they were 40 years ago, and in some ways how they started the three-way bookshelf craze. I had to give up a few things for the purchase, but I believe they are the best 'historical' JBL find I will ever make and probably the speakers I will keep for my lifetime.

[lgvenable]

off eBay 16 total used sold for parts 18 4 shipping

a 5 min fix:opened her up plugged in the 3 unplugged connections, voila when turned it came right to; run bridged at 250 wpc.

Sounds beautiful,and I run at 8 ohm

[brad347]

I was pretty excited about my $50 pair of Jubals, excellent and all there with original manuals, warranty cards, and other documentation.

This was totally trumped by my "all there" pair of $500 4345s, purchased from a Pennsylvania craigslist seller.



I've had pretty good luck so far. Maybe there's still hope I'll find a $600 Paragon.

[loach71]

Acquiring twelve 2245H woofers and six 2360A horns with compression drivers...

[Kenny Brant]

LE14A's 2 for $4.98 each.

LE175 2 for $1.98 each. Would of had 3 by guy put one in his cart for an alarm he was building, LOL.

[brad347]

that is hilarious!

I bet that's one nice sounding fire alarm.

[moparfan]

I stripped them in 10 minutes, I got everything except the passive radiators. The aquaplassed woofers need to be refoamed but everything else looks to be in good shape.

This was on the way back from picking up a refoamed 2235 for my 4430.