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• Alan December 2011

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  This thread on PFM reminded me of a long term ambitio to try some really proper JBL monitors one day, preferably with 15" white bass drivers (yes, I am - really!).
  
  These look da biznizz:
  
  
  
  
  
  
  My Dads big HiFi speakers were some 2-way monitors from the mid-nineties (will try to identify them later) though he replaced them because they really needed some well to get going. They were really well built.
  
  Anyone here had any experience with decent JBLs? Especially the classic ones?
  

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• Alan December 2011

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  These are them, I think: TX-14
  
  Not quite for me TBH.
  
  
  

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  Main: [ Qnap TS 110 NAS ] > Modified Apple MACmini (Mountain Lion, Audirvana +) > M2Tech Young DAC > LightSpeed Attenuator (LDR) > XIV 10W SECA Amplifier > Royd Revelation RR3 Speakers
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• schwantz34 December 2011

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  hi guys , ive heard the second one , the blue one , 4350b , with a bryston amp, they were astonishing !
  
• Alan December 2011

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  schwantz34 said:

  hi guys , ive heard the second one , the blue one , 4350b , with a bryston amp, they were astonishing !
  

  
  
  I bet they did Sergio, they aren't likely to be subtle!
  
  I always wondered what the little 'moustache' you often see on JBLs is for? Something to do with treble dispersion I imagine.
  

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  Main: [ Qnap TS 110 NAS ] > Modified Apple MACmini (Mountain Lion, Audirvana +) > M2Tech Young DAC > LightSpeed Attenuator (LDR) > XIV 10W SECA Amplifier > Royd Revelation RR3 Speakers
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• schwantz34 December 2011

  Member

  well i dont know exacly Alan , but there are some without
  
  
  
  However , they were used in the 70s to mix the main albums in Europe and AMerica, ive heard them with the concert "the wall" by Roger Waters (the dvd) , and was something incredible...great sound and so loud , at one point ive asked to put the volume down ... :-)
  
• uglymusic December 2011

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  I've never liked the JBLs I've heard. But what does that prove?
  
  They've always sounded as subtle as a flying mallet.
  

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• schwantz34 December 2011

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  of course they are not a pair of quad esl57, but you can live with them ;)
  

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