JBL - Lansing Heritage

[jdandy]

This is great.....a JBL forum. I have always had a love affair going with JBL speakers, and on occasion, with their electronics. A good friend had a JBL receiver that was way before it's time, and that was over 30 years ago. I lusted for that receiver for years. JBL has always be an innovator, and a leader in the audio business, both consumer and professional.

Here is a link to the Lansing Heritage Website. Lots of great information and photographs. The photo on the first page shows James B. Lansing in the center of the first row. INTRODUCTION

[Vintage Pete]

Originally Posted by jdandy

This is great.....a JBL forum. I have always had a love affair going with JBL speakers, and on occasion, with their electrinics. A good friend had a JBL receiver that was way before it's time, and that was over 30 years ago. I lusted for that receiver for years. JBL has always be an innovator, and a leader in the audio business, both consumer and professional.

Here is a link to the Lansing Heritage Website. Lots of great information and photographs. The photo on the first page shows James B. Lansing in the center of the first row. INTRODUCTION

Dan...I've been a member of this forum for about 5 years.

Pete

[jdandy]

Pete.......The Lansing Heritage website is a huge resource of JBL information. Glad to know you are a member. I have never joined, but visit the site often looking for information.

[Vintage Pete]

Originally Posted by jdandy

Pete.......The Lansing Heritage website is a huge resource of JBL information. Glad to know you are a member. I have never joined, but visit the site often looking for information.

Yes, LHF is a great resource, with some very helpful and knowledgeable members. It's been a big help to me more than once.

I don't visit every day like here, I kind of go hot and cold on it. But, it's nice to know they are there, for sure.

Pete

[Dj_AmTraX]

Too bad good JBL speakers can't be had here in the States.

[jdandy]

Originally Posted by Dj_AmTraX

Too bad good JBL speakers can't be had here in the States.

DJ.......Care to elaborate?

[hkval]

Hey Pete - My friend owned the Paragon and another friend the Olympus w/SR7 speakers and I owned the white tower ones with the tiny grill on top but I can't remember the model #. Do you know it?
Thanks, Howard

[two dot]

I think that I can honestly say, that the 4301b's that I found in MINT condition in a house we bought here in So Cal is the THING that started me back on the the audio journey that I had started some 20 years earlier.

I still have those speakers and am still amazed at how phenomenal they sound being driven by the lowly MA6300.

If I didn't love so many other things, I could easily be sucked into being a JBL collector and listener of their fine speakers.

Some of their more esoteric models are TRULY classics in the audio world.

[Vintage Pete]

Originally Posted by hkval

Hey Pete - My friend owned the Paragon and another friend the Olympus w/SR7 speakers and I owned the white tower ones with the tiny grill on top but I can't remember the model #. Do you know it?
Thanks, Howard

S109 Aquarius? They were most popular in Walnut, but it was also available in a white finish.

1972 S109 AQUARIUS IV

Or possibly the S120 Aquarius Q: http://www.lansingheritage.org/html/.../1974-l120.htm



Pete

[Vintage Pete]

Originally Posted by two dot

I think that I can honestly say, that the 4301b's that I found in MINT condition in a house we bought here in So Cal is the THING that started me back on the the audio journey that I had started some 20 years earlier.

I still have those speakers and am still amazed at how phenomenal they sound being driven by the lowly MA6300.

If I didn't love so many other things, I could easily be sucked into being a JBL collector and listener of their fine speakers.

Some of their more esoteric models are TRULY classics in the audio world.

I love stories like this...what really gave me the JBL bug was the first time I heard a pair of Lancer 99's in a home system, powered by a modestly powered Sony receiver. I couldn't believe a bookshelf system could sound this good. It was a two way system with the LE14A low frequency driver. I can't seem to find the brochure on it in the JBL Library.

Pete