[Vintage-Audio] JVC Speakers

Fri Sep 26 16:26:00 2003

Well narrow bands and lots of them are good from the "doppler" distortion point 
of view, but bad because of the crossover distortion point of view.

WBob

Duane Fischer, W8DBF wrote:

> They both appear to be active. I can feel them move in phase with each other.
> his is a 'six way' system, so it says. One twelve inch is from 1000 Khz down to
> 300 Hz and the other from 300 Hz down to 30 Hz. The midrange from 1000 Khz to
> 3000 Khz and the three tweeters are split off above that, but I do not remember
> the cut off points. 	
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> Duane W8DBF 	
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> From: WBob <[email protected]>
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> Subject: Re: [Vintage-Audio] JVC Speakers
> Date: Friday, September 26, 2003 1:06 PM
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> Are both of the 12 inchers active? If it has rear ports, they probably are, 
> although it was common in those days to have a passive cone rather than a port. 
> to resonate the lows lower. The key is that it sounds good. So much about 
> speakers is totally subjective and not based upon much science.
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> WBob
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> Duane Fischer, W8DBF wrote:
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>>Today I went to see/hear the pair of JVC speakers I heard about in my locality
>>yesterday. Here is what I found. 	
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>>They emeasure 42 high, 15 wide and 11 deep. They contain two 12 inch woofers,
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>>single 5 inch midrange and three tweeters. They are labeled on the back as a
>>"six way system". Power rateing is 180 watts RMS, 600 watts peak. Two rear
>>ports. Weight is about 50 lbs. The price on the back is $895. Even says "Made
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>>The USA", but being as JVC is Japanese, somehow I doubt this.    	
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>>I failed to memorize the model number, will get it later. I am guessing they
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>>eighties vintage.  		
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>>I took along a CD I made up with seven selections intended to demonstrate a
>>variety of frequency ranges. The speakers performed well below 100 Hz with no
>>distortion. The highs were crisp and clean. Bass response was snappy, nothing
>>muddy. Mids were clear and voices were very intelligible. They performed well.
>>All foam suspension was in excellent condition and the cabinets had only a few
>>minor skuffmarks on them. The price was right, so home they came.   	
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>>While my demo CD was playing several wandered up who were interested in buying
>>the speakers! They hung around in case I did not buy them. Maybe I should have
>>offered to sell the seller my demo/test CD! Actually the guy that took me to
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> the
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>>place where the speakers were said he really like the CD, so I gave it to him.
>>He is almost seventy!     	
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>>These are going to be the mains for the H.H. Scott LK-72b amplifier and I am
>>going to use the Paradigm Monitor 9s as the center channel speakers with the
>>LK-48b amplifier. This system should really rock the house, literally! 	
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>>Duane W8DBF	
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>>P.S. If any of you know the model of the JVC speakers described above, please
>>let me know.   
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