flush mounting (soffit mounting) vintage JBL's... ?

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flush mounting (soffit mounting) vintage JBL's... ?

Post by weatherstation audio »

Hi there everyone... this is my very first post here,


I've been poking around this forum and reading about this topic... and yeah, my brain is starting to heart.

The company I work for is in the preliminary stages of designing a new studio, in our newly purchased building... the one level building houses a big ol' warehouse with 13' foot ceilings and the exterior walls are brick and cinder block with thick concrete floors (no basement)... we seem to have a pretty sturdy structure to work with.

I have a pair of vintage JBL 4333 monitors (re-coned recently) that are sitting around collecting dust... it would be nice to put them to good use as the flush mounting monitors in our new studio control room.

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I've seen John Sayers post about mixed results on some JBL boxes for flush mounting... meaning, too much coupling of bass frequencies... perhaps transmitting through the wall frames ?

It seems that I would need to have them sit on a stack concrete cinder blocks or something of that nature to decouple them from any of the wall frames... does this kind of design work ?

cheers

Marc
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Re: flush mounting (soffit mounting) vintage JBL's... ?

Post by John Sayers »

Hey Marc - just noticed your post.

Soffit the damn things - screw them down and add a strong baffle around them so what comes out the front is not confused by what happens behind.
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