Your Favorate JBL's from the 70's


My first pr of JBL's where L26 then L110 and finally L220.
I was 17 when my mother purchased the L220's for me.I must say the police where called several times for load music and for my Mother I'm sorry for
all the problems caused by me and these concert hall spkr's.
What's is your story?
Mike
hiendmmoe
I owned a pair of L212's. They had incredible imaging. I also owned a pair of S8's. The big 3 way with an 075 bullit tweeter 375 midrange and a LE15 woofer. Replaced the 075 with 077's and the sound became a lot smoother. Those were the days.
In my 20's I drooled over a pair of 4343's. In my 40's I bought a used pair and I substituted the better 2122 midrange and the 2235 woofer. I have always loved the punch of a JBL. The 10" driver made the voicesand instruments sound so good with a better transition to the 15" woofer. Biamping these made them sound even better. tubes on the midbass, midrange and tweeter and SS on the woofers. What a great sound.
My first JBL's in the 70's were four S8R systems in custom cabinets. I bought a Marantz 4300 receiver to power them. I had the optional SQ and QS decoders as well as an off board Dolby four channel unit. I later changed the 375 and short horn out for the LE85 and 12" horn. I felt it had a more extended HF response and was smoother. I changed the 075 out for a 077 for better response and more even distribution. About that time I added a pair of Phase Linear 400's and bi-amped the S8R's. A bit later I tri-amped them with a Pioneer D-23 electronic crossover, a pair of DH 500's and a Nikko MOSFET Alpha III amp for the top end. I also had a TEAC 3340S four track 10" R-R, 360 cassette deck, Benjamin Miracord turntable, DBX 3BX w/remote. I changed out the Marantz 4300 for a Marantz 3800 preamp and went back to two channel sound a year or so later. In the early 70's I though that was a great system with room filling effortless sound. Most of the time I hardly tripped the amps idle lights on louder passages during normal listening. But, I had a couple thousand watts on hand to kick any transients out with no distortion or clipping. Efficient speakers are great!
I have a pair of jbl 4311 control monitors bought used from a recording studio back in 1982 for $300 I still listen to them outside on my deck on warmer days powered by a nad 80 watt amp only work done was to replace spkr terminals in back still sound fabulous and I have mag 1.6qr and 20.7's in the house I will never part with them the road goes on forever and the party never ends