It has "vintage styling", including a "retro-inspired"ĭesign, and "iconic" Quadrex foam grille that is available in black, burnt The JBL L100 Classic introduced last year,Īccording to JBL's literature, "is not a "retro speaker, but a modern speakerīuilt to modern specifications", although it is a "modern take on the Introduced in 1970, the JBL L100 was the most popular Towers, which was about the same time I started my high-end audio equipment Owned, in the early 1990s I switched to a pair of similarly sized pair of Snell Alas, these were the last JBL speakers I ever Having a side-firing 8" woofer, with its 5" mid and 1" titanium dome-tweeter Space, I rationalized that they had a relatively small footprint at 1.5" footĭeep and about 0.75" of a foot wide. Even though it was obvious that they were meant for a larger These beasts weighed in at almost 80 pounds each and stood nearlyįour-feet high.
And so, afterĪuditioning models I ended up acquiring from an industry insider a brand-new pair of JBL's new L7 tower speakers, which were at the top of their new home speaker line. Gear and LPs, I didn't think it would be fair to subject her to these very Girlfriend was accustomed to me cramming our one bedroom apartment with music But theseĭual woofer, horn loaded time-aligned speakers were too large. Other brands and models, and even came close to purchasing a used pair of UreiĨ13 monitors, since many of very larger studios I visited used them. Music in my home that sounded as close as possible to what the musicians andĮngineers heard it when they were making it. When I left that world at the end of theġ980s and began to assemble an audio system for my home, I wanted to purchase a On stage, since this was the era before those on stage were able to wear I saw and heard in live venues JBL monitors I noticed many different makes and models of monitor speakers, and a large I was a working musician from around high-school onwards, and more seriouslyĭuring the 1980s, spent quite a bit of time in recording studios. A classic looking speaker with truly modern sound.
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