JBL L82 Classic

Nostalgic design but 21st-century technology both benefit these large standmounters.

First came the L100 ‘Classic’, an all-new design with fully up-to-date components within, yet sporting those classic white woofers and black, blue or orange Quadrex foam grilles as key DNA from JBL’s original L100 design back in 1970. More recently, JBL followed up with these L82 Classics, around half the size (though still the second largest standmount in this whole group at 47 cm high) and a driver down, but fully maintaining the nostalgia. The L82 models still look every inch a JBL Classic, wide yet relatively shallow in their genuine walnut-veneer enclosures, distinctive white paper-pulp cone still to the fore, now on a reduced but hardly dinky 20cm (eight-inch) mid/bass pure-pulp woofer, compared with the L100 Classics’ 12-inch woofers and separate midrange. These smaller standmounts still weigh a healthy…

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