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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: Midrange driver suggestions
Post Subject: “…particularly in midrange.”Posted by Romy the Cat on: 1/4/2008
 Wojtek wrote:
Roman, could you (or enybody ) elaborate a little bit on JBL L8 and its application ? Not so much sensible info on the net besides that its a fullrange usefull in 40Hz-8kHz.

I do not know, how can I elaborate if I never tried to build any seriously sounding direct radiator speaker? Back in 200-2001 when I was experimenting with a driver for Avantgarde’s Trios upper bass horn I played a lot with all imaginable 8” drivers. Sine I had no knowledge and generally do not believe to what other people say I went for empirical evidences, buying all interesting 5-8-inchers and experimenting with them. The JBL L8 impressed me as a driver with surprisingly-serious tone, though it was not horn-type of driver of course. It has a ringy dust cap but it is possible to deal with it damping it with Aquaplus or with table tennis glue.
 Wojtek wrote:
I have a pair of JBL Lancer 33 speakers -~1.5 ported with single LE8 with recently changed surrounds which have not been played for a long, long time.

Well, those old cheap JBL speakers with LE8, with all their problems and with very moderate volume were very nice. Borrow somewhere Lamm ML2.0 to drive them (very critical) and you with those old  and crappy JBLs will get a quality of Sound that will be more superior than anything else about which “The Absolute Sound” has wrote for the last 10 years, particularly in midrange

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