The 70’s are back

@d2girls

Lol. Try Sheffield labs drum track on your speaker tests. Very few speakers can do that one justice at around 110 dB SPL continuous and they all have 12” or bigger or multiple 12 or 15 inch woofers...

My 15” woofer barely moves but you can feel the kick right in the pit of your stomach - just like a live show. I think that large 15” professional woofers load the entire room - it is something visceral that you feel in your bones and core rather than only your ears...

What was that line from Moonstruck? "I’m confused" Yes, I was thinking the new L100, my mistake.

Anybody else here think that $4K for the L100's is TOO much? The dealer margin is probably 30% ($1200). Still expensive for an old (and flawed) design! I'm keeping my 4312's and 166's which together cost me used less than half of the new ones!

You can always get better value used - so I don’t think the comparison is fair. A fair comparison would be other brand new speakers with professional quality drivers.

Large ATC, PMC, Westlake, Tannoy etc. are going to set you back even more - so the JBL L100 looks quite affordable when compared to alternatives. It continues JBL tradition - perhaps not the last word in audiophile quality but superb value for a speaker that can play at realistic volumes for rock/pop. I use a pair JBL PRX615 and XLF sub for my band practice and love ‘em - fantastic neodymium 15” drivers that make the cabs extremely light weight!

Before you condemn the $4,000 price tag of the new L100's you should think about what a pair of L100's (or L100a's) cost in the mid-1970's and see what that works out to in today's dollars.