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Opps, saw it too quicly and took it as a pair for sale!
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Yes, even with the water damage they are worth having. Looks like the bass drivers are affected as well and likely need reconing. A good few quid's worth of bits there though, the compression drivers, horns and lenses have to be worth a couple of hundred. Not my favourite JBL, very coloured, I've heard them a good few times.Originally Posted by Xapito
!! Someone buy those and send them to me in a pallet, I'll take them!!
One thing to bear in mind. if the damp has affected the magnet/pole assemblies the speakers may end up useless, as the rusted parts will eventually bind the voicecoils.
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Silly boy! Now go and stand in 'the naughty corner'.Opps, saw it too quicly and took it as a pair for sale!
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Bass drivers look fine to me. They are LE15b's which have corrugated surrounds rather than foam but they were not one of JBL's best ( actually bloody awful) and are responsible for the colouration you mention.
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Yes, they have a very wooden honk through the whole of the upper bass and midrange handled by the bass driver. It's not just the driver's fault, the enclosure sounds underdamped (and possibly underbraced). For some reason, the very similar L300 seems not quite so bad (still pretty coloured though), that may just be down to the varying environments I've heard them in.
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The L200 cabinet could do with a bit more bracing and really benefits from some more radical upgrades in the driver department but it's not an inexpensive process
The L300 and it's pro sibling the 4333 a different beasts to the L300 and use a longer horn that crooses overy properly at 800Hz and a much better bass driver, the 2231a which offers good deep bass with no boom. There is also the added benefit of the 077/2405 tweter. I'm surprised that you thought the L300's coloured and that is a trat they exibit little of unless there was something wrong with the ones you heard. Upgrades are relatively straightforward. Reconing the 2231 to 2335 spec and using a charge coupled crossover is all you need.
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Been playing with this since I picked it up the other day. It sounds bloody amazing for what is I suppose a multimedia system. I'm feeding it with a Meridian 507 and it's not disgraced itself at all. Room fillingly loud and clean with proper bass. Great little thing.
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I predict your musical cupboard draws coming up for sale soonBeen playing with this since I picked it up the other day. It sounds bloody amazing for what is I suppose a multimedia system. I'm feeding it with a Meridian 507 and it's not disgraced itself at all. Room fillingly loud and clean with proper bass. Great little thing.
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