Jbl L100 Classic User Manual

L100 Classic

Iconic 3-Way Bookshelf Loudspeaker

OWNER’S MANUAL

INTRODUCTION

Thank you for purchasing the JBL® L100 Classic 3-Way Loudspeaker

For more than 70 years, JBL has been providing audio equipment for concert halls, recording studios and movie theaters around the world and has become the trusted choice of leading recording artists and sound engineers. The legendary JBL 4310 professional studio monitor helped produce many of the most popular albums of the 1960s and ‘70s. The 4310 was the inspiration for the L100 home audio loudspeaker introduced in 1970, which became JBL’s all-time best selling speaker. The L100 Classic is a modern interpretation of the original L100.

The new L100 Classic honors this storied legacy with its iconic 12-inch (300mm) 3-way conﬁguration, but with all-new drivers, crossover network, enclosure, and features to bring the design up to the highest 21st-century performance standards. Utilizing a compact monitor-type footprint, the L100 Classic features advanced JBL transducers including the JW300PW-8 Pure Pulp cone woofer, the 105H-1 Polymer-coated Pure Pulp cone midrange, and the JT025TI1-4 Titanium tweeter.

The L100 Classic retains all of the performance attributes that endeared the original L100 to listeners in the ‘70’s and ‘80s, such as exceptional dynamic range and contrast, clean and effortless high output, and precise high impact bass. The updated L100 Classic adds even greater detail resolution across the full bandwidth, lower distortion and more lifelike stereo imaging, particularly off-axis. The L100 Classic is sure to become a new legend among music lovers everywhere.

PACKAGE CONTENTS

• One L100 Classic loudspeaker

• One Quadrex foam grille

• One L100 Classic Owner’s Manual

PLACEMENT AND POSITIONING

CAUTION: The L100 Classic weighs 58.8 lb. (26.7 kg) each. Before placing the speaker on a shelf or platform, be sure that it is sturdy enough to support the speaker’s weight.

Before deciding where to place your speakers, survey your room and think about placement, using the illustration below as a guide.

• Avoid placing the speakers near power ampliﬁers, heat registers or other objects that generate large amounts of heat.

6-8 feet

(1.8-2.4m)

• Do not place the speakers in very humid or dusty places.

• Do not place the speakers in direct sunlight or where they

40° – 60°

will be exposed to other intense light.

• For best results, place the speakers 6–8 feet (1.8-2.4m) apart. If you set the speakers farther apart than this, angle them toward the listening position.

• The speakers will produce the most accurate stereo soundstage when the angle between the listener and the speakers is between 40 and 60 degrees.

• Generally, bass output will increase as the speaker is

Listening Position

moved closer to a wall or corner. For best performance, we recommend that you place the speakers at least 20 inches (50cm) away from the sidewalls.

• The speaker will yield the best stereo imaging when oriented vertically.

• The L100 Classic may be stand mounted with optional JBL metal stands (model JBL JS-120, sold separately) that angle the speaker upward.

• If not using the optional stands with built-in angle, then we recommend you to position each speaker so that its tweeter is approximately at ear level.

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