L100 CLASSIC

12-inch (300mm) 3-way Bookshelf Loudspeakers

In 1970, JBL released the iconic L100 Loudspeaker. Over the years, the L100 became the bestselling loudspeaker in JBL’s history. 50 years later, Bay Bloor Radio is proud to present the JBL L100 Classic, a modern take on a time-honoured legend.

The Classic features vintage styling, including a retro-inspired design and iconic Quadrex foam grille, along with newly developed acoustic technology and designs for dramatically improved performance. 

After all these years, you’ll still be blown away.

The original L100 production run included the L100, along with the subsequent L100A and L100 Century evolutions that quickly followed and ran thru the end of production in 1978. That fundamental compact 12-inch 3-way design is maintained in the L100 Classic with improvements made to the transducers, enclosure tuning, and crossover network design.

Designed by Chris Hagen, the same acoustic system engineer that created the L100T3 in 1988, the L100 Classic benefits from decades of JBL engineering prowess along with the world’s most advanced acoustic engineering resources available in HARMAN’s Northridge, California design center.

The L100 Classic uses the newly developed JT025Ti1 1-inch (25mm) Titanium dome tweeter mated to a waveguide with an acoustic lens for optimal integration to the JM125PC 5-inch (125mm) cast-frame, pure-pulp cone midrange driver located directly below. The vertical HF and MF transducer arrangement is slightly offset to the right of the woofer below, with HF and MF attenuators located on the upper left of the front baffle. Low frequencies are delivered by the 1200FE 12-inch (300mm) cast-frame, white pure-pulp cone woofer operating in a bass-reflex enclosure system that is tuned via a single, front-firing port tube with flared exit. Connections are made via a pair of gold-plated binding post terminals located on the rear-panel.

Click here to read more details from Principal System Engineer Chris Hagen on how the L100 Classic was developed.

• Retro design with iconic JBL styling and vintage Quadrex foam grille in a choice of three colours: black, orange or blue
• Genuine satin walnut wood veneer enclosure with black painted front and rear panels
• 12-inch white cone, pure pulp woofer with cast frame
• 5-inch pure pulp cone midrange
• 1-inch titanium dome tweeter
• Bass-reflex design with front-firing port
• High-frequency and mid-frequency L-pad attenuators
• JS120 stands available separately

Low-frequency transducer

12-inch (300mm) pure pulp cone woofer (JW300PW-8)

Mid-frequency transducer

5.25-inch (125mm) polymer-coated pure pulp cone (105H-1)

High-frequency transducer

1-inch (25mm) titanium dome with soft surround (JT025TI1-4)

Sensitivity

90dB (2.83V/1m)

Power Handling

25 – 200 Watts RMS

Crossover Frequencies

450Hz, 3.5kHz

Impedance

4 Ohms

Frequency Response

40Hz – 40kHz (-6dB)

Speaker Dimensions

25.06 x 15.34 x 14.625 inches (636.52 x 389.64 x 371.48mm)

Speaker Weight (each)

58.5 lbs (26.7 kg)