Legendary speakers..

[pinkmouse]

Pretty picture! Now all we need is a pic of a pair of big old Westlakes to go with them!

[pinkmouse]

Originally posted by Cal Weldon
... JBL L-100..

The only speaker that ever sounded like a wasp's nest being attacked by a flamethrower...

[N-Channel]

Almost forgot- how about the JBL Control-5's?

[tc-60guy]

Howdy folks, My vote goes to my trusty,crusty,beat up old Spica TC-60s. It's a better speaker than the TC-50s by virtue of its warmer midrange and it's use of MUCH more reliable Vifa and Peerless drive units.

[Steve Enlow]

Originally posted by pinkmouse


Anyone mentioned Auratones yet?

Known to many as Awfultones. The first speaker to gain legendary status by sounding bad.

[planet10]

Have AR3ax, EPI 100 made the list yet?

dave

[pinkmouse]

Ah, AR3s. The speaker that was so soft, it would wrap you up in a blanket, tuck you up in bed, and read you a bedtime story.

[Val]

A couple of British legends:

Leak Sandwich
Rogers JR 149

[DSP_Geek]

Originally posted by tubewade
[....] I always think of Altec A7-500s, Klipschorns and Sweet Sixteens, but I can't believe no one has yet mentioned The Jensen Imperial. I attended an outdoor concert a couple of years ago and the low frequency system consisted of eight 18 inch woofers in four Imperial style enclosures. The ground very literally shook under my feet and you could feel the sound completely in your chest from some 40 or 50 metres away. After that experience I have resolved that one day I'm going to build a pair of these to use when I need really high SPLs. I think one of these used inside of a building could possibly damage its physical structure.

Nope. Been there done that with two 15s per cabinet, one on each side, driven by 800 watts. It was called a JBL 4520 instead of a Jensen Imperial, but most of the details were similar:

http://www.jblpro.com/pub/obsolete/L...nclosures2.pdf

If you really wanted to cause structural damage, your best bet was Electro Voice dual 15" folded horns: the plans even came with a warning to keep people at least 10 feet away to minimize hearing damage, as 400 watts through a 25% efficient system would result in SPLs greater than 120 dB.


Returning to classic loudspeakers, I'll second sprucemoose's nomination of the Magneplanar Tympani. I first heard them sometime around 1975, driven by big Audio Research tube amps, and I was utterly gobsmacked. It was sound on a completely different level than I'd ever heard before; it was like hearing Hendrix for the first time, a revelation that Something Else was happening on a plane one didn't even know existed until then.


Francois.

[krytar]

JBL's Hartsfield
Altec M19
Altec A7
Klipschorns
JBL L100
JBL L300