Can anyone tell me what model JBL these are?

[Firulais71]

Greetings everyone, I've been in contact with someone who lives in another city and is willing to sell me the following JBL speakers:

I asked the lady to send me a picture of the back, but she says the speakers are mounted high up and are too heavy for her, so she's afraid to move them.

I tried to identify the model online, even using Gemini and Chatgpt, but I only found similar models, not these specific ones. So I don't know if these are genuine JBL speakers or a homemade project using JBL parts.

Can anyone tell me what model it is?

Best regards.

 

[Chrispy]

Have you looked thru here? https://www.lansingheritage.org/

 

[smygolf]

I have never seen a JBL made speaker with those horns, diy ?

 

[Firulais71]

Have you looked thru here? https://www.lansingheritage.org/

Hey man, yeah, i searched through the many JBL documents and catalogs on lansingheritage and didn't find anything similar to the lady's speakers.

Cheers.

 

[Beave]

I did a reverse image search on Google, and their AI confidently responded that they are the JBL S3100 from Japan, released in 1995.

Unfortunately, that's wrong. Shocking, I know, that Google's AI got it wrong. But at least it wasted some power and water to give me the wrong response.

 

[Beave]

To me, they look more like Klipsch speakers than JBL (except, of course, for that JBL logo!).

 

[Beave]

Based on more searching, I'm guessing they are Klipsch clones with a JBL logo stuck on them.

 

[Firulais71]

I have never seen a JBL made speaker with those horns, diy ?

Hi, actually JBL does have some models with compression drivers or horns, some iconic ones like the 2370, 4673, 4675 and others, for example this 2370:

But none of the JBL speakers i've seen online look like the ones i'm asking about.

They look more like Klipsch Forte II, III or IV, with the exception that the Forte speakers do not have a front tuning port, unlike the speakers in my inquiry:

Yes, it's possible these speakers are a DIY project; perhaps the lady's late husband built the enclosures or recycled some, using components he had lying around and sticking the JBL label on the front. The truth is, the lady doesn't remember when or how these speakers appeared in her house, but she says her husband spent a lot of time in his workshop fixing or building things, so there's a possibility they're DIY speakers. Hopefully, someone can help us identify them correctly.

Regards.

 

[Firulais71]

To me, they look more like Klipsch speakers than JBL (except, of course, for that JBL logo!).

Hey man, i thought the same thing, they look more like Klipsch than JBL, so I don't know if the lady wants to sell me some authentic but very rare, almost unknown JBL speakers, a Klipsch imitation, or a homemade project inspired by Klipsch that they slapped the JBL logo on, who knows, it's a mystery to me right now.

Regards.

 

[smygolf]

Hi, actually JBL does have some models with compression drivers or horns, some iconic ones like the 2370, 4673, 4675 and others, for example this 2370:

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But none of the JBL speakers i've seen online look like the ones i'm asking about.

They look more like Klipsch Forte II, III or IV, with the exception that the Forte speakers do not have a front tuning port, unlike the speakers in my inquiry:

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Yes, it's possible these speakers are a DIY project; perhaps the lady's late husband built the enclosures or recycled some, using components he had lying around and sticking the JBL label on the front. The truth is, the lady doesn't remember when or how these speakers appeared in her house, but she says her husband spent a lot of time in his workshop fixing or building things, so there's a possibility they're DIY speakers. Hopefully, someone can help us identify them correctly.

Regards.

Offcourse they have used horns and still do
But not with the kind of horns used here.

Woofer does not look as a Klipsch woofer - hybrid of the two ?

 

[Waxx]

The horns are not Kiplisch style, those don't have a diffraction slot like these have, and JBL horns often had. Kiplisch does not want that in their horns. The woofer also looks more like a JBL woofer, but the cabinet is typical Kiplisch. It could be a retrofit with JBL drivers in a Kiplish cabinet, I've seen that before and it still happens. The K-402 horn of Kiplisch (from the Jubilee speaker) is more used without the original driver (as it sucks), than with, and many buy that combo because it's the only (expensive) way to have that horn that is considered as one of the best in the world for compression drivers. Many use JBL or Tad compression drivers with it and different woofer cabinets with different drivers.