JBL L220 Labor of Love

[Vintage Pete]

Bumping this thread...as I've restored all of the photos in post #1 that were taken down by photobucket in their highly successful effort to lose customers.

[jdandy]

Pete.......Great to see the refreshed photos in post #1. On my last visit to your home a month or so ago I was highly impressed with the sound of the L220's. A major step up.

This is a great thread. .

[Masterlu]

Originally Posted by jdandy

Pete.......Great to see the refreshed photos in post #1. On my last visit to your home a month or so ago I was highly impressed with the sound of the L220's. A major step up.

This is a great thread. .

And worthy of being a Sticky!

[Vintage Pete]

Originally Posted by jdandy

Pete.......Great to see the refreshed photos in post #1. On my last visit to your home a month or so ago I was highly impressed with the sound of the L220's. A major step up.

This is a great thread. .

Dan....thank you!

Originally Posted by Masterlu

And worthy of being a Sticky!

Ivan....I am honored! Thank you!

[Joe]

Excellent Dr.!

[Joe]

Surely, you are in a league of your own, as all the above comments suggest. The word artist certainly is correct!
J

[V7Sport73]

Very nice posting. It is the first time I have read this. I have a pair of the JBL L220's as well. I have owned them for nearly 40 years. These are great speakers.

[Vintage Pete]

Originally Posted by V7Sport73

Very nice posting. It is the first time I have read this. I have a pair of the JBL L220's as well. I have owned them for nearly 40 years. These are great speakers.

V7Sport73.....Yes, they surely are. This coming March will be 38 years for me.

[Giovanni68]

Hello everybody, ciao Pete, how are you all doing?

It is long time since I last came to partecipate to this thread, this is due to how long it took for new suspensions to reach me off the US, I mean, very quick shipping and then a whole month or longer by Italian customs, enough said...

Today I took a long breath and applied the new suspensions to the passive radiators frames, had to use those things we use to hang clothes to dry (no, here we don't use drying machines, we have sun and electricity is suuuuper expensive) to keep them in place once the glue got applied and, so far, couple hours have gone by and it seems they are sitting in place, I wanna try and resist till tomorrow to apply the glue on the rear of the cones, hard to resist because I can't wait to listen to them but I wanna take it easy, one more day won't be big deal and I guess this is gonna be the difficult part of the job.

By the way, attaching two pics here, my method to keep the suspension in place while the glue does the job and the bottom of the speaker cabinet where there is extra foam and before I put the radiators back in place would like to hear from you what you think about it, I guess it was the ex owner to put it in there as he also had to remake the suspensions to both passive radiators and woofers (there were stickers on the cones frames with his name attached, God only knows how much he had to spend back then to ship them for the job, we live on a small island and everything we need has to travel).

I hope it all goes smooth tomorrow, next will be a sound test, will put them in place of my 4311B and if all works next will be cosmetic job on the cabinets, they are in good shape besides some little damage on the rear corner on one of the two but the owner had them painted, both on the wood with transparent varnish and on the front and back with black paint, I am pretty used to varnish because I own a boat I work on every year but this is a different job since it's not wood like my mahogany boat but rather a this slice, well, will figure it out later on, in the meantime curious to read about the foam in the bottom of the box.

Grazie

Giovanni

[Vintage Pete]

Originally Posted by Giovanni68

Hello everybody, ciao Pete, how are you all doing?

It is long time since I last came to partecipate to this thread, this is due to how long it took for new suspensions to reach me off the US, I mean, very quick shipping and then a whole month or longer by Italian customs, enough said...

Today I took a long breath and applied the new suspensions to the passive radiators frames, had to use those things we use to hang clothes to dry (no, here we don't use drying machines, we have sun and electricity is suuuuper expensive) to keep them in place once the glue got applied and, so far, couple hours have gone by and it seems they are sitting in place, I wanna try and resist till tomorrow to apply the glue on the rear of the cones, hard to resist because I can't wait to listen to them but I wanna take it easy, one more day won't be big deal and I guess this is gonna be the difficult part of the job.

By the way, attaching two pics here, my method to keep the suspension in place while the glue does the job and the bottom of the speaker cabinet where there is extra foam and before I put the radiators back in place would like to hear from you what you think about it, I guess it was the ex owner to put it in there as he also had to remake the suspensions to both passive radiators and woofers (there were stickers on the cones frames with his name attached, God only knows how much he had to spend back then to ship them for the job, we live on a small island and everything we need has to travel).

I hope it all goes smooth tomorrow, next will be a sound test, will put them in place of my 4311B and if all works next will be cosmetic job on the cabinets, they are in good shape besides some little damage on the rear corner on one of the two but the owner had them painted, both on the wood with transparent varnish and on the front and back with black paint, I am pretty used to varnish because I own a boat I work on every year but this is a different job since it's not wood like my mahogany boat but rather a this slice, well, will figure it out later on, in the meantime curious to read about the foam in the bottom of the box.

Grazie

Giovanni

Giovanni....I'm sure things will be fine with your passive. As to that green foam in the bottom, it looks like somebody threw that in there to replace the factory foam that had deteriorated (as mine had). I'd suggest you get yourself a sheet of 2 to 3 inch thick foam, cut yourself a couple of large squares, and stuff it in the bottom. You'll be good to go and have all the damping you need..