JBL Apollo Vintage Loudspeakers 

Your not alone Sue - many feel the same way

o ya thanks sir many thanks

I love the old Jbl ,has a more acoustic sound better,but the Jbl no longer the same.

@@arnaldogonsalvez3859 HI,This is partially true, but those series they did well around are astronomically expensive. I listened to the top model from the K2 series and it works phenomenally. But I have a much better four-way home made with a volume of 300 liters and 300 watts of power, which I power with a system of double cables and a double amplifier....really bi amping bi wiring....look on my nick picture......regards

Yep old out does anything made now. Read above more comments. Our world now has no value in anything. Right down to morals of what they create or what they do.

Yep - that is part of why this set is special - most of these cabinets only had two drivers

My speakers have the potato masher and bullet tweeters. I purchased a separate pair of bullet tweeters for other speakers, and someone for who knows what reason painted them an ugly olive green. But the price was right, as they can be expensive. And no one will ever see them, unless they stick their face up against the grill of the speaker.

Thanks for the kind words - this is one the best pair of JBL's I ever came across

I have some Altec Lansing speakers at work, computer speakers... I know the name Altec Lansing is well received on an international level, but these things are just a complete joke. I can't figure out why a great company would want to take credit for them! My cellphone can almost compete for quality...

+Alex Paulsen Chevrolet, made the 454 Chevelle, Camara SS, 67 Corvette and THE CHEVETTE and the VEGA.. need I say more?

+Alex Paulsen The late great company Altec Lansing did not make those. The company was bought out by Telex Communications in the mid 90's, and then sold to Sparkomatic in 2000. The once great company is gone, now just in name only, cranking out crap.

@@ronshaw80 like a lot of the classic companies - went cheap, asian and plastic.

No kidding that's because old is better. That's when things were made well. Anything now in speakers or anything else example wash machines is sh_t. All about money, and the newer generation are possessed by evil. They accept what is, they don't have a brain to think for themselves. By the way I have a set of JBL speakers from 1993. I still want to refoam the deteriorated bass speakers. I purchased new but retro huge floor bi-amble 15" bass BIC America speakers in 2015 for 99.00 each through Wal-Mart.com; I'm sure a one time exceptional buy.

@@deb4735 that's nonsense. There are many fine speakers made today. The problem is they are 5k or more. I agree lots of new high dollar speakers are all about resolution and not timbre, but not all

And not only do they sound great they are beautiful to look at too.

@@kfl611 yes

its a recording on you tube its not coming from the speakers but htey do sound great

How would you compare Alnico speakers with similar electrodynamic speakers / field coil speakers?

@@kfl611 I prefer Alnico over Ceramic/Ferrite magnets. Field Coils would be better than both those other types. I have to qualify this by saying I have not done any listening with Neodymium so can't comment on drivers using that material. I worked for JBL many years ago and ask all the engineers on the pro side why I felt the older Alnico drivers sounded better then the newer ceramic types. Most of them said the ceramic was better until I got to one of the older guys who said that Alnico is better even though it typically spec's with less magnetic energy. He said Alnico was able to focus the magnetic energy in a more linear way. I can only add that when I listen through systems with alnico drivers I feel they sound more like music and field coils even better

@@theaterboyeBay Thanks for your comment/reply. I have a pair of headphones, that look like what was typically used in the 1920's, but they are alnico. I haven't used them, as my old time radios are in storage, but I had no idea, they made the 'telephone magnet coil - diaphragm, type headsets out of alnico.

hard to forget those first experiences with great audio gear - and listening to the Stones

Amen Brother

Lucky person in more ways than one.

This might be my all-time favorite JBL speaker - they were such a surprise when I first hooked them up. If you get a chance to snag a set do so and enjoy

Robt Bomba not really, horns sound horrible

Yeah JBL is the best. Microphones can't capture them. I have three pairs and some wharfedales and you have to be in the room.

Even modern English wharfedales sound beautiful, my diamond 9.1's are the best sounding bookshelf speakers ive ever heard, wipe the floor with anything bose

+Synthematix Bose is homeowner stuff. Like people think Ryobi is great. But DeWalt or Milwaukee would be the power tool. Happy New Years. See you on shangos channel. Yeah my jbls and my old ass wharfs are my favs.

thanks for your kind comment

yes not actual speaker

Hello Charles - most of the C51's had 2-way configurations which is still a great find at a thrift store. And yes all you would need is the 075 bullet drivers and the N7000 crossover to make it a 3-way assuming you already have the correct LE175 mids and LE15A woofers - Your cabinet should already have the holes for 075's

thank you for your message. i recommend japanese amp→sansui or denon...... shall we try japanese hight quality.................

Mach 1 are cool - still hoping to find a clean pair in my local area

me too, whatda you know

Are you mental?

Marten Dekker , tube amp that is. class AB will take at least 200 wpc.

Music is from Guitarist, Singer, Song & Soundtrack writer Joe Meyer all his music is available online www.joemyers.net

The same complement of drivers in a C50 size cabinet would have some theoretical advantages but I'm not sure this would prove out to be better sound than the Apollo C51 - while the C50 would likely have a bit more extension in the low bass the much larger Front Baffle size may detract from its performance compared to the C51 Apollo - this being said I have only ever compared this Apollo to the dual bass driver models

theaterboyeBay Have you ever purchased any MP3's from his site? I would be extremely disappointed if I were to spend money on some super lossy mp3's. I don't really notice low bitrate mp3's vs higher ones on my computer, but on my main system the low quality stuff sounds like my head is wrapped in a wet blanket.

BannHammer All the music I have used in these videos was purchased from his site so I think the quality will be solid if you are already satisfied with MP3 - you can also contact him and see if he has any CD's available

theaterboyeBay I am more of a record guy but I have been using FLAC out of laziness recently (and that its impossible to find newer recordings a lot of the time). If you used an MP3 for this video I'm sure it will be plenty enough for me. Thanks for the info!

Big big room would be nice. But not necessary. These speakers sound really good at low volumes. And if you can turn them up you can get dynamic range you can't get with smaller speakers. Extremely sensitive speakers with power high handling compacity

They don't build (make) people like they used to either, sadly.

Amen brother

+joe smith and some good tacos

joe smith and pale ale....

You forgot the money

@@Badassvidsz After all of these, there is none left. Bankrupt. He was N-riched!

actually it used a solid state amp. more ohms for solid state, less ohms for tubes...

It's probably the cables. Cheap cables can do that. The Crossover might need to be refurbished as well with new caps and new connectors.

Oneness100 . cables don't matter you fucking lunatic.

Yeah, they do. It's already been proven, unfortunately YOU didn't read the memo. it's been proven about 20 years ago with the research that MIT Cables did. They can measure a response curve of a cable when they perform the articulation measurements and other measurements that can prove that a design of a cable WILL affect an analog audio signal. Many TOP recording and mastering studios use a variety of top end cables to ensure as much neutrality of the audio signal. Leading Mastering and Recording engineers like Bob Ludwig re cabled his entire Mastering Studio several years ago with Transparent Cables, SkyWalker Sound redid their studio for recording film soundtracks, classical recordings, and foley recordings with MIT Cables. Many of the top symphonic orchestras use Transparent, MIT, and other top end cables for their recording equipment from microphone cables, to interconnect cables and speaker cables to ensure a neutral signal. Basically what a cable does is acts like a filter. Depending on all of the various aspects of a cable, will alter the way they pass audio signals through them. The aspects of a cable can include the meturgy, how it's wound, cable geometry, dialectics used, termination, whether it has filter boxes or other types of methods to affect how that cable is going to behave. Some companies use solid core, to variable thickness stands of wire wound to specific specs, various types of dielectrics, etc. Up until MIT Cables started performing test measurements, there really wasn't anyone that could measure what they wanted to measure. Actually, the engineer at MIT Cables went to HP and helped them design one of the most precise measurement tools so they could actually measure what they wanted. That test equipment costs $100K which MOST engineers are obvious to the existence because they aren't taught this information in college, this is research that's been done by private companies. Go do your homework and READ all of the technical information on MIT Cables web site, their patents and then maybe you should set up an appointment with MIT Cables, bring your cables in to have them measure how well your cables work and then do a sit down listening test after you've been proven with objective measurement tests to know what to listen for. If you listen to mostly highly compressed music, it may not be as easy to hear, which is a large degree why YOU may not be able to hear. The other aspect is that your ears have not been trained to know what to listen for, or you are just deaf. Cables can make an improvement, some can make it sound worse and sometimes there is no difference between one cable and another on a partiular system. The problem is that it's impossible to test every conceivable setup. But it is possible to measure cables to obtain a response curve as to how those cables with alter or not alter the audio signal. So bottom line, don't be ignorant because you don't know as much about cable design as people that spend their days performing measurement tests using hundreds of thousands of dollars of test equipment and having leading industry experts that do mastering and recording at major production studios that their job is to LISTEN TO subtle differences in audio equipment.

***** You are calling me the lunatic? Charles, aren't you in jail with a swastika tattooed on your forehead? And I'm the lunatic?

It's the recording.