Best JBL's you have heard

PROJECT ARRAY 1400

If You ever get a chance, to hear the JBL SYNTHESIS® DD66000EB - EVEREST II, you may give them the nod...
I heard them with the JBL SYNTHESIS® S1S-EX 18" Subs.

With the ideal "matching" electronics, they sound amazing!

Very sensitive, so the "dynamics" and "slam" are in full effect.

These are not, grandpa's JBL's...

I Love My Music!

I bought a pair of L65s brand new in 1978 and have never been able to part with them. I suppose, however, the best JBL I ever heard was the Paragon (looked like an entire 1960s Philco or the like console system except it was a big speaker?). The year was '65 or '66 and I was at a home show in Houston TX with my parents......bored out of my mind until happening upon that stupendous sound. My father remarked at the time that he thought it could've produced a decent listening level all by itself next door in the Astrodome. I don't know how accurate that was but hearing that speaker(s) as a ten year old has remained the single most "impressive Hi Fi moment" of my life. Auditioning L 300s as a twenty-something at Pacific Stereo was pretty darned good but I don't think anything will ever compare to that "great big ol' speaker at the home show that time".

Here's what I did with my L-200s. I read somewhere that the weak link in that speaker was the horn so I got a better one - much better.
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Nothing wrong with vintage. Most vintage speakers were built better than many of those today. Good design and craftsmanship will stand the test of time.

The best JBL's I have ever heard were the XPL-200's. Talk about dynamics. Wow! I am still looking for a pair to buy today.

I did own two pairs of L100T's and thought they were great sounding speakers, too. But the XPL's, what a loudspeaker...