I am very pro Devon Turnbull, but the price on these is getting crazy. Unless I’m missing something it’s just a slot ported enclosure with a horn sitting on it. The crossover can’t be too exy as it doesn’t have to do much. You could put these together for under 3k with possibly better components.
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Yes indeed
Sounds correct 3k plus margin/labour/set up would make it into business. I don’t think Tannoy will sell you anything big for less than 10k?
I was helping pick up enough bits of holy grail JBL part recently to build a few pairs of lovely huge speakers, more power to anyone who gets them out there.
Your average DJ is still going to make them sound shit from experience!
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“Your average DJ is still going to make them sound shit” The old distort everything ethic lol.
There is a new crew in Melbourne who are using vintage JBL gear for their sound system. I have yet to hear it but I’ve heard these horns before and boy are they sweet.
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That’s the owners of El Gran Mono, yeah? They found some old JBL cinema gear and looks like a 2x12 or 2x15 hog scoop? I bet it’ll sound great with some dub running through it!
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I don’t know if it’s the same guys or not. It might be. This sound is called New Flower SS and they play house/boogie/disco etc. The 4520 folded horns are a little light under 50Hz but clarity is amazing.
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That gen crown stuff is nice. Had a few knocking about at work, always wanted my own
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Two pairs of those 2390 horns with 2441 drivers were in our haul a couple of weeks ago. That gear is going to sound incredible when playing incredible sounding records.
Blimey, that was a score.
Like records, there are still some seams of gold out there. Not my purchase, I was just assistant on this.
JBL 2441 Driver X6
JBL 2420 Driver X1
JBL 2402 Bullet X4
JBL 2405 Bum X4
JBL 2390 Horns X4
JBL 2397 Smith Horns X2
JBL 2240 18” Woofer X4
JBL E120 12” Woofer X8
JBL 1 inch to 2 inch X2
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On that note… If anyone on here has known cabinet dimensions to any design they want to DIY I’m happy to draw up and spit out DXF files that they can take to the local CNC machine shop to make their own flat packs to build. Makes it easier than having to cut it all on a panel saw or track saw it
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I may hit you up on that offer in future. I’m often building cabs but I have always lacked the skills to make plans and yeah it can be a pain cutting everything.
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My happy place 
Living in a small wooden cabin, so have to work with what I have. Absolutely loving the Adam Audio set up, especially as I don’t have any neighbours.
Mixer upgrade and new synth by the end of the year.
The blackout, insulated curtains have turned out to be a surprise bit of sound proofing.
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Tempted
Expensive but surely ‘an investment’
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Place in the first photo, I’ll take it. Pick keys up Monday?
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The stuff dreams are made of. I got to hear some 4355’s in a recording studio next to where I lived, and they were proper amazing.
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I’ve toyed with building replicas, but then you end up with some giant speakers that don’t fit anywhere besides a purpose built room.
I went to the Reverb exhibition in London last week where they have a Devon Turnbull installation, ‘Hi-Fi Listening Room Dream No.1’. The Vinyl Factory Reverb Exhibition — 180 Studios
The exhibition was quiet and so got chatting to the guy playing music and asked him to select whatever he felt in the record box sounded best on the system from any genre. He played this Alice Coltrane beauty
followed by this which was unexpected but sounded incredible.
I hadn’t appreciated the amazing production before, didn’t realise it was Raphael Saadiq.
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