Hi scholl
JBLs are a little hard to source in that part of the world, second hands as well (which a good sign, people keep them), but a lot of good drivers too in CE : 18ThSounds, PHL, Kartesian, BMS, ... for disto figures. PHL has also sealed made to work fine in not big enclosures f the area is important in the project.
JBLs are a little hard to source in that part of the world, second hands as well (which a good sign, people keep them), but a lot of good drivers too in CE : 18ThSounds, PHL, Kartesian, BMS, ... for disto figures. PHL has also sealed made to work fine in not big enclosures f the area is important in the project.
Fairly easy anywhere, if one is willing to pay for shipping.
There are very few 'modern' pro drivers that are as smooth and well behaved through the useable range.
JBL does use Aquaplas to damp resonances in cones, even on 'modestly' priced pro drivers.
Also except for Eighteensound, cone behavior, resonances or breakup is hardly given any attention.
Can usually find a pair of 2206H for 300$ used in good condition. Most will be more expensive as new products.
Kartesians are more expensive, and still fairly unproven.
Eighteensound does a good job, but the price follows usually.
BMS makes good quality drivers, but the cones are fairly 'lively' and untreated, and the 12"s all are lacking in bottom end extension, for max output capability in the upper part of the spectrum.
PHL has a lot of drivers who are full of impedance blips/ resonances, even in they're smoothed graphs (where those even exist).
I thinnk the opposite, I'd like to see JBL's to Klippe all their drivers. Altough I do agree what is important is what you like in the passband of the driver since it is filtered. But yes, JBLs have good motors, not the only ones, far from this. I have nothing against JBLs, I wish as I said to be easier to find in France at fair price Q/P related or secondhand (which is rarer than you believe here in my country, again monney is your limit. If it wasn't this is not JBL I purchase !)
What will be the three drivers for a 3 ways in the shoes of the op you 'd choose ? for the 12" mid op wisch it is the JBL, but what you would putbelow and above? In his shoes I dunno for the low one, but for the highs I just pick up a good high spl classic tweeter if copping to 3 ways (Be, or else). For a 2 ways indeed with low high cut off I stand for the horn the lowest possible allows the horn CD combo ( < 1 K hz and belllow <= 800 hz if possible). The OP is DSPed, so a lot of headroom choice !
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