Very rare vintage speakers

[F1nut]

The cool factor is off the charts!

http://www.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?spkrfull&1234832086

[Fongolio]

Hard to believe they are from 1948. Two 15" drivers each and a true horn tweeter. All this to play mono recordings on 78 rpm at the time. Mr. Lansing was way way ahead of his time. I agree monsterous cool factor. Thanks F1.

[Keiko]

Very impressive @ 61 years. Thanks for sharing Jesse.

[mrbigbluelight]

Very interesting that the original owner had bought just one back in 1948 and had a special corner stage built for it in his home.
Not a pair, but one; with mono being the only game in town, the single was a system back then.

Nice to see that Avidear is treating these speakers with the respect that they deserve. Not a lot of people would go to the effort in tracking their background, either. I think that he has them greatly underpriced $14500 for the pair considering their original condition and the care he's taking in restoring them. It definitely seems like he's doing it for love, but not the love of money.


Awesome. :eek:

[Dennis Gardner]

Hard to believe that most inquiring about them want them shipped. I don't know of a freight/shipping line I would trust with heirloom quality stuff unless its was a vintage car carrier or piano moving company.

[mrbigbluelight]

Very interesting that the original owner had bought just one back in 1948 and had a special corner stage built for it in his home.
Not a pair, but one; with mono being the only game in town, the single was a system back then.

Nice to see that Avidear is treating these speakers with the respect that they deserve. Not a lot of people would go to the effort in tracking their background, either. I think that he has them greatly underpriced $14500 for the pair considering their original condition and the care he's taking in restoring them. It definitely seems like he's doing it for love, but not the love of money.


Awesome. :eek:

[nadams]

I wonder how they sound??? And, if you bought them, would you risk blowing out a driver, just to enjoy them? Sounds like these are more a conversation piece than anything else.

[reeltrouble1]

maybe these would be perfect for tina???

RT1

[madmax]

Mono Rules!
madmax

[thall]

Did you see this one?

http://cgi.ebay.com/JBL-PARAGON-EARLY-283-D44000-SPEAKER-16ohm-RARE-375_W0QQitemZ260342930859QQihZ016QQcategoryZ3276QQ ssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

[steveinaz]

Awesome.

[duane51]

for shipping vintage stuff like this i recommend redman salt lake city movers (http://www.redmanvan.com). they do specialized shipping, which includes pianos and fine art. i think they can probably move vintage cabinets with no problem.

[cnh]

Did you see this one?

http://cgi.ebay.com/JBL-PARAGON-EARLY-283-D44000-SPEAKER-16ohm-RARE-375_W0QQitemZ260342930859QQihZ016QQcategoryZ3276QQ ssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

That is what I would call VINTAGE. Yeah J.B. Lansing did put out some interesting designs...of course a lot of the stuff was for commercial purposes. I still run a late 80s set of their studio monitors (two channel stereo) which I like quite a bit but they don't like 'bad' mixes.

cnh

[George Grand]

I can honestly say that every JBL loudspeaker I ever heard, was varying degrees of bad.

[madmax]

I can honestly say that every JBL loudspeaker I ever heard, was varying degrees of bad.


Loud,... and bad. ;)