Julien ARNAUD ⁽¹⁷⁾

Unsatisfied with my JBL SB210 low frequency, I designed and built replacement enclosures. The SB210 is a dual 210mm subwoofer, using ceramic cones in a polymer enclosure. Specifications of JBL's original SB210 are My redesigned enclosure offers The first hurdle was the absence of datasheet for the speakers themselves, as they were never distributed outside of the SB210 system. After contacting JBL Professional, they were kind enough to provide me with the data. These specifications were entered in Dominique Petoin's database and you can now find it there. As I was…

Inspired by Cabasse's La Sphere high end system, I went on to design and build my own tiny spheres. I like coaxial speakers for their realism in human voice reproduction and cabasse may have a lead in that with their SCS technology. I have been a happy user of their Java MC40 using such technology. I decided on affordable Archipel 17 ICD (300€ the pair delivered). Like with the JBL SB210, datasheet for the low frequency driver were not published. But contrary to JBL, Cabasse gave me no love in…