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Let's See Your JBL-Loaded Enclosures!
- Thread starter Count Bassie
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I still have a pair of JBL Cabaret Series 4625 cabinets that I bought around 1981. Very fond of the sound of JBLs for bass. I used to use the two 4625 cabinets along with a Bag End D210 driven by a BGW 750 power amp. I have been using one of the 15" Cabaret cabs along with an Eden 210XST cabinet for the last 6 years or so, before that I paired the JBL with an Eden 410XLT. The 2x10 Eden cabinet pairs better with the single 15. Each cab was driven by one channel of a Crest CA6. In an effort to reduce weight I replaced the CA6 with a Crest ProLite 3.0 and I recently (and somewhat reluctantly) replaced the 4625 cabinet with a Barefaced Super Twin. I have a Barefaced Big Baby 2 on order which is going to replace the Eden 210XST. Both Barefaced cabinets together will weigh less than a single Cabaret 46245. Below is a shot of my rig taken a couple of years ago before I got the ProLite 3.0 and added an Alembic Superfilter to my rack. The second photo shows Phil Lesh playing through my all JBL rig at a party in the SF Hilton Hotel in December of 1997.
I've read here and elsewhere that the magnets on the E series are just a tad too big to fit into the 200s, unless you mount them from the outside of the baffle. Then you have to take off the grille, from inside the cab (meaning remove the back panel), then put the grille back on -with spacers- to accomodate the speaker, which will now be "proud" of the baffle...
Totally doable I guess, but a little extra work there.
Ductapeman
Ringmaster and Resident Geriatric
Count Bassie, not so bad since the invention of the electric drill-- even easier with cordless drills (my 2000S box has 78 2-1/2" screws in the back of it, which I removed by hand a couple of times before I figured this out--)
Alembic B-15 Cabinet with JBL K -145 Speakers..SVT
There a matching cabinet on the other side of the studio with K -140’s..and a 59 P-Bass.
There a matching cabinet on the other side of the studio with K -140’s..and a 59 P-Bass.
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However, since then I have put in Faital 15FH520's, tuned to 45hz. I can put the K140's back in at anytime.
Bad pic...but it gets the idea across.
Top cab is a B-42XT. Wish I had the matching head (which is a somewhat rare guitar head). I haven't taken the back off in about 15 years, but I believe those might be JBLs...or maybe Altecs.
The bottom cab is a B-25B cab. It has one JBL (unknown model – I haven't had the back off in nearly 20 years) and one no-name made in Mexico speaker.
Kind of groovy feature of the B-25B cab: The impedance can be set to either 4 Ohms or 16 Ohms by using a series/parallel slide switch on the back of the cab.
Top cab is a B-42XT. Wish I had the matching head (which is a somewhat rare guitar head). I haven't taken the back off in about 15 years, but I believe those might be JBLs...or maybe Altecs.
The bottom cab is a B-25B cab. It has one JBL (unknown model – I haven't had the back off in nearly 20 years) and one no-name made in Mexico speaker.
Kind of groovy feature of the B-25B cab: The impedance can be set to either 4 Ohms or 16 Ohms by using a series/parallel slide switch on the back of the cab.
200s has large port flare inside the cabinet. And speaker is rear mounted. And larger JBLs magnets will hit the port flare. So you front mount the speaker hoping it clears the port.
The Cabarets were tremendous cabs back in their day. We once hooked up one of the 18's as a sub and two of the 10" line arrays with a CS800 with a Furman preamp. Holy smokes . . . . . . you really could blow bottles off the back bar with that rig.
Who hasn't climbed inside a cabinet? If you were a bass player in the 70's or 80's you've been inside a cab.
Well this has all been cool, to see your all's JBL fridges. I want to keep and use mine, but we'll see what a half mile down the road brings. I need something I can actually cart around from my logistically challenging house and get around with, that I can use with my Acoustic 370 or Trace AH250SMX... I may be losing them for a smaller, simpler solution.
As of now they are not for sale, I'll up my membership again if that decides to happen... got to come to my predicament and solve it satisfactorily. It's alla bout sound, but it's all about living too...
Thanks for sharing, everybody!
As of now they are not for sale, I'll up my membership again if that decides to happen... got to come to my predicament and solve it satisfactorily. It's alla bout sound, but it's all about living too...
Thanks for sharing, everybody!
I had three Kustom 215 cabs back in the day, all loaded with either K or E 140's. Great sound.
A good friend had two 2X15 cabs that had an awesome sound. I sold him my 1969 Gibson EB0 that he played through the Kustom.
