In 1970, JBL introduced the L-100 home hi-fi speakers based on the company’s popular 4310 Pro Studio monitors. With their fantastic sound quality for the price, particularly for rock music, and their killer Quadrex foam grilles available in black, blue, or orange, the L-100 speakers became the best-selling loudspeaker of the era. And now JBL has revived them in modern form, the JBL L100 Classic. They’re $4,000 a pair.
I’d be curious to hear an A/B test of the JBL L100 Classics against a pair of restored originals that can be had for a fourth of that price. If you have that opportunity, please roll a number, cue up David Crosby’s “If I Could Only Remember My Name” on the turntable, and let us know what you heard.
Main FeaturesRetro design with iconic JBL styling and vintage Quadrex foam grille in a choice of three colors: black, orange or blue
Genuine satin walnut wood veneer enclosure with black painted front and rear panels
12-inch white cone, pure pulp woofer with cast frame
5-inch pure pulp cone midrange
1-inch titanium dome tweeter
Bass-reflex design with front-firing port
High-frequency and mid-frequency L-pad attenuators
(Thanks, David Hyman!)