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paragon JBL speaker

post #1 of 11
12/8/11 at 7:12pm
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check this out: on display now at LACMA (los angeles county museum of art, or uncle eli broad's cabinet of curiosities) is this vintage speaker, hooked up to play, beneath a selection of classic album covers (one design by saul bass, for instance)

 

paragon.jpg

 

 

detail:

paragon2.jpg

 

now that, my wife said as she pulled me away, is high end audio...

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post #2 of 11
12/8/11 at 8:07pm

I remember listening to a set of these speakers way back.

Crown and Phase Linear Amps

Thorens turntable.

ADC25,ADC26, Empire 1000ZEX, Empire 999VEX, Shure V15 MK IV, Stanton 681EEE cartridges.

 

I think we've progressed since those days....

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post #3 of 11
12/8/11 at 8:34pm

Very nice, and it sure does belong in a museum! When these things are for sale, they go for $14-22,000!

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post #4 of 11
12/9/11 at 5:37am

I owned one of those in college.  Great rock and roll speaker.

All horn, and very efficient. A pair of vintage K-horns is still

more fun.

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post #5 of 11
12/9/11 at 12:29pm
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Originally Posted by kevin gilmore View Post

I owned one of those in college.  Great rock and roll speaker.

All horn, and very efficient. A pair of vintage K-horns is still

more fun.


What! Really, do you have pictures to prove itcool.gif?

 

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post #6 of 11
12/9/11 at 1:19pm

That was 1975 when i worked for Dieners in champaign and got it cheap as a trade in.

I did not even own a camera of any kind back then.

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post #7 of 11
12/10/11 at 3:01am

They were a great speaker for their time.

They had the same speakers in the Sovereign S8R boxes.

 

There was also the Metregon which was the Paragon's predecessor.

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post #8 of 11
12/10/11 at 3:35am

metragon was a 2 way, paragon was a 3 way.

 

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post #9 of 11
12/10/11 at 5:28am

I've seen these in a second-hand hi-fi store in Japan. Had NFI what they were. Pretty weird stuff does turn up from time-to-time.

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post #10 of 11
12/10/11 at 5:07pm

I remember the JBL Paragon being around in 1970 when I bought my JBL 101s. At the time it cost $2,500 and it was rumored that Frank Sinatra had two, one each for left and right stereo channels.

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post #11 of 11
12/11/11 at 4:17pm
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Originally Posted by fatcat28037 View Post

I remember the JBL Paragon being around in 1970 when I bought my JBL 101s. At the time it cost $2,500 and it was rumored that Frank Sinatra had two, one each for left and right stereo channels.


and it was in fact a sinatra record playing when I took those snapshots!

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