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Post by julesd68 on Aug 27, 2018 18:43:18 GMT
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Post by Tim on Aug 27, 2018 19:08:29 GMT
I heard some JBL 4312SE speakers at Bristol Jules and thought they were fantastic. I would expect the L100 Classic to deliver something comparable, as I believe the drivers are very similar? Bit smaller cabinet mind you. I'm also interested to hear some - my end goal short list is currently Harbeth, Tannoy Cheviot or Arden (legacy) and these. They would probably be the cheapest too. Not fully ruled out some electrostatics, but I don't think I'll have the right space.
I think they'd look super cool in my room in black 
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Post by ChrisB on Aug 27, 2018 19:21:10 GMT
Ì used to like the blue grilled ones. Anyone know what they are going to cost?
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Post by Tim on Aug 27, 2018 19:22:03 GMT
Believe about $4,000 US, so probably the same in sterling.
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Post by ChrisB on Aug 27, 2018 19:34:52 GMT
3K?
Yoiks!
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Post by Tim on Aug 27, 2018 19:39:25 GMT
Well that's a lot less than some Legacy Cheviots or SHL5 or 40.2 Harbies But you are right, not cheap . . . |
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Post by ChrisB on Aug 27, 2018 19:51:50 GMT
Well, apparently they were $273 each in 1970, so maybe £3K is not so mad after all.
Although in my Googlings just now, I saw several sites that mentioned they were going to be £4K in the UK.
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Post by Tim on Aug 27, 2018 19:56:46 GMT
That's what I would expect Chris, pretty much everything these days is a direct $ to £ swap when it gets here, despite exchange rates. Don't forget US sales tax, but that's still not a grand! Shipping and whatnot adds up though.
If they sound as good as those 4312SE speakers did, I wouldn't baulk at paying 4K for them.
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Post by jandl100 on Aug 27, 2018 20:29:14 GMT
I'm also interested to hear some - my end goal short list is currently Harbeth, Tannoy Cheviot or Arden (legacy) and these. They would probably be the cheapest too. Not fully ruled out some electrostatics, but I don't think I'll have the right space. Harbeth, Tannoy or JBL? No contest at all. JBL for me.  |
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Post by stanleyb on Aug 27, 2018 20:40:26 GMT
Funnily enough I gave my brother in law a pair around 1987. He still has them, stored in his loft...
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Post by Tim on Aug 27, 2018 20:42:09 GMT
JBL for me. You could well be right Jerry |
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Post by MartinT on Aug 27, 2018 20:44:12 GMT
JBL for me too, without a doubt.
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Post by julesd68 on Aug 27, 2018 20:49:59 GMT
Funnily enough I gave my brother in law a pair around 1987. He still has them, stored in his loft... He likes them that much Stan??  |
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Post by stanleyb on Aug 27, 2018 21:03:49 GMT
He used to play them, but for some reason he seems to have gone of playing music.
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Post by DaveC on Aug 28, 2018 6:57:02 GMT
JBL here too, studios use them for a good reason. L150's with Focal Utopia Beryllium tweeters here, reworked crossovers and bi-wired. So cheap used, I have a second pair in the background. |
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Post by Clive on Aug 28, 2018 7:22:56 GMT
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Post by MartinT on Aug 28, 2018 7:40:38 GMT
L150's with Focal Utopia Beryllium tweeters here Do they suffer from the roll surround rot that my old L-100T speakers had? I used a 12" driver repair kit quite successfully on them. |
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Post by dsjr on Aug 28, 2018 8:01:13 GMT
They (Kralk) may look like JBL's but the engineering on the cone profiles and so on won't be the same I reckon... The original 4310 and L100 were horrid things, they squawked and screeched and there was little you could do - the crossovers were 75% of this I gather. Twenty years ago, a mk2 version was domestically marketed for a while for around £1250 the pair. The mid driver became lightly doped as is the current one, the tweeter was updated and if given an assertive kind of amp (I think Colloms used a krell 300i integrated in his HFN review), they sprang to life and really entertained, the worst of the colourations now eliminated. My pal Dave had them on dem and loved them but I was working in Northampton then and St Albans (S'Norbens) was too far away to visit. The 4310SE is a plainer styled version and around three grand (laterally set tweeters though). Once I get my backside into gear, I have hopes on either these or the revamped L100's as I'm getting tired of BBC Boomers now and my ears don't like the upper crossover dips as Harbeth design in.
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Post by DaveC on Aug 28, 2018 8:10:49 GMT
L150's with Focal Utopia Beryllium tweeters here Do they suffer from the roll surround rot that my old L-100T speakers had? I used a 12" driver repair kit quite successfully on them. The do and all 12" drivers were repaired ! |
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Post by julesd68 on Aug 28, 2018 19:28:59 GMT
These speakers have certainly been generating quite a lot of interest; I would certainly like to hear them. Have you bought a pair Clive? |
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