Classic Speaker Thread

Back in 1974 I bought a set of JBL L-36's that I'm still using today on my second system as mains.

When I bought them they cost ~$500, which was a lot of money at the time.

They're only about 33 years old, hardly broken in.

Over the years I had the woofer drivers reconed because of foam rot.
I also had to replace the tweeters after one burnt out.
I replaced them with a fairly nice set of Vifas that matched fairly well.

I replace all the capacitors in the crossovers when they started to leak.
I also changed the internal wiring and soldered all the driver connectors which were using tabs.
I also replaced the poor push-pin connectors on the rear with some nice banana type binding posts.

They still sound good to me.....

Here's a couple pictures of them. One with the grills on and one with the grills off. Note that the crossovers are adjustable from the front panel.

brucek

ADS--- L 1290/2 mains, HT 400 center, L400 surrounds or sometimes L1290/2 mains, HT 400 center , L 1290/s side surrounds and L 690 rear surrounds. I really like the sound of the full range towers for surrounds, but it doesn't really fit the room layout.

The 1290s are 3 way towers with a pair of 8" woofers, a 2" dome mid and a 3/4" dome tweeter-flat from 45 Hz to beyond 25 k Hz (if that last has any meaning with CDs and DVDs and my 15+ k HZ ears).
The L400s are small two sealed two ways with a 1" dome tweeter. The HT 400 is a m-t-m layout with 5.25" mids and a 1" dome tweeter. It is a later model tweeter (not fabric) and does not have quite the same voicing as the other models. The 690 is a small tower with a look as the 1290 but with smaller steel basket woofers, no mid, and a 1" tweeter.

JBL 100s (Century), with all of the foam long ago rotted out of the grills, in the living room for two channel.

The only "modern" speaker is my Rythmik 12 sealed servo sub.