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In article , "Trevor"
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"George Graves" wrote in message
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"Arny Krueger" wrote:
People have revisited 4310/L100s and found exactly what you described -
really pretty good drivers but too-simple and naive crossovers.
Yes, a pity that they did have some clues like conjugate capacitors, but
often spent more money on the aluminium boxes for many of their Xovers than
the rest of the parts.
Of course they weren't alone there, KEF's of the same vintage are also
improved by adding better Xovers, as are quite a few others with good enough
drivers to bother.
That is really interesting. How is the enclosure design? Does it support
really
good low-end from these drivers? Because the original speakers had "big
bass"
but not really very deep bass.
That's pretty relative. You could certainly get deeper bass from a 12"
woofer if you wanted, but they still go deeper, louder, and with less
compression and distortion than smaller systems.
Trevor.
That doesn't really answer my question. The original JBL "4300" series
studio monitors thumped out a lot of midbass. It was loud, it hit the
listener in the pit of of the stomach, so at mid-bass frequencies, these
speakers obviously moved a lot of air. but they had little in the way of
REAL, deep bass.
I was doing a lot of recording for NPR at this time (I was the recording
engineer for their "Jazz Alive" series, among other projects). Anyway,
KQED-FM had JBL 4310's in their editing studio and I used it extensively
to put together the "Jazz Alive" location recordings that I made all over
San Francisco. Once I was required to record a pipe-organist at the huge
Grace Cathedral on Nob Hill. I took the 2-track/15ips master back to the
studio to edit it for broadcast (I wasn't a KQED employee, but the producer
was). I couldn't believe how poor the organ sounded on those speakers and
was scared that something had gone wrong with the recording. So, the
producer and I grabbed the tape off of the studio Ampex and took it to my
house to play it on my AR-2ax's. There was nothing wrong with the recording
(the bass was spectacular), but the JBLs emasculated it of any real low end.
So, my question is, do the modern, improved crossovers fix the bass problem?
I suspect not, but if anyone knows, I'd love to hear their experiences with these
speakers.
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