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Balderdash1
05-18-2021, 04:46 PM
What the title says
SEAWOLF97
05-18-2021, 04:50 PM
L-88
2 way , 12 incher /// nice
BMWCCA
05-18-2021, 07:40 PM
Hope you just bought them without waiting for an answer!
Balderdash1
05-19-2021, 05:36 AM
Hope you just bought them without waiting for an answer!

I don't have them yet. It's an unusual situation as they belong to a patient where I work in a retirement community. He did say though that he may be interested in selling. I posted these because I wasn't familiar with JBL's that had this cabinet design. I'm stumped though because I thought L88's were 70's era and these have an early 60's badge. When were the L88's introduced?
Robh3606
05-19-2021, 06:09 AM
1967 or so

http://www.lansingheritage.org/images/jbl/catalogs/1967/systems.jpg

Rob:)
SEAWOLF97
05-19-2021, 06:28 AM
wasn't there also a L-88P (or something like that) , that looked identical ,
but was setup to add a mid to make it a pseudo L-100 ?
Robh3606
05-19-2021, 10:48 AM
wasn't there also a L-88P (or something like that) , that looked identical ,
but was setup to add a mid to make it a pseudo L-100 ?

Yes but it didn't have the Vernier circle over the bass driver. Just a sculptured grill. Also a L88+ that could be converted to the L100 with the M12 expander kit that included the midrange driver and additional crossover.

Rob:)


http://www.lansingheritage.org/html/jbl/catalogs/1973-home.htm
Robh3606
05-19-2021, 10:50 AM
wasn't there also a L-88P (or something like that) , that looked identical ,
but was setup to add a mid to make it a pseudo L-100 ?

Yes but it didn't have the Vernier around the bass driver. Just a sculptured grill. Also a L88+ that could be converted to the L100 with the M12 expander kit that included the midrange driver and additional crossover.

Rob:)


http://www.lansingheritage.org/html/jbl/catalogs/1973-home.htm

http://www.lansingheritage.org/html/jbl/specs/home-speakers/1972-l88p.htm
speakerdave
05-19-2021, 11:20 AM
And some design chops borrowed from the '50's Eames/Trusonic collaboration. <https://eames.com/en/blog/blog-eamestrusonicspeake> Although I believe the driver in the E-4 Quadraflex was a JBL D123.