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#1 JBL control 1

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Anyone ever heard these, or got a pair?

Wondering if they may be suitable for a touring caravan.

Other small speakers from Cambridge Audio and Q Acoustics are a possibility, but maybe a bit OTT.

My floorstanders are sadly a bit too big to lug around. Though I could use them in the awning, if I wanted to be a noise nuisance.

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Yep, for many years we had a pair as our main workshop speakers Al. They're OK, big sound from a small plastic box, driven hard everyday by a Denon SS amp. The suspension foam eventually dried on ours and left the cone to wobble about! Spare parts are available but I upgraded the workshop system to a Fonken 167eN single driver cabinet that Dave at P10 designed and a an old WD KEL34.

The little JBL's took quite a bit of driving sound good, I reckon they'd be good in a caravan. Cheapish too!

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Ta for that Dave.

I wondered if they might take a bit to drive em.

Thought about using a TDA7297 amp as i have a 13v supply in the caravan,
but it might not be good enough.
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I'd say Mission's old 760i bookshelf speakers will be a fair contender here.

Similar sort of money, but they're rather nice through the midrange. They don't need a rocket up them to get going, but will take a fair bit of power before sounding harsh.

There's always some on eBay.

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Funnily enough Chris............

I've got a pair of 760i but never really took to them.
From memory they might be a tad big, but i'll measure them anyway.
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I'd recommend you give them a listen. You get a lot of music out of those little boxes.
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Oh ok, if you insist.
I'll give them another chance. :)
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I have a pair these somewhere used to use them as rear surround speakers, I've often seen them used in pubs for background speaker which they're good for as you can get dedicated wall mount brackets, I also let my daughter use them with a cheepo cd system when she was a teenager they made it sound far better than it should have.
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Can recommend these , we use 2 pairs connected up to those little T-amps (Bantam Golds, iirc) in our Chalet, they sound great and most importantly are small and discrete
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Well the Missions were okay but quite bulky for a caravan. They look tiny in the house but they are quite deep so hard to squeeze into a corner.

I ended up with some Wharfedale Diamond 9s which are smaller, but to me sound better balanced if not the most transparent.
Just got to invent some brackets of some sort. Not easy with one arm, but time is on my side. :)
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