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Tremendous low end muscle, tight low end, wonderful midrange and top end. -- Countertops

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It's a good pair overall, bought mine from an audiophile friend in mint conditions, it was 650$ for the pair, it worths it for a pair in good conditions. Ton of Bass , high excurtion woofers. A classic JBL midrange , detailed and sweet. And an ok tweeter.

The weird plastic base.

I gave a pair away to family, and I finally picked up a mint pair to complete my collection of the entire series. This L5 has perfect drivers with firm surrounds which is very unexpected. The grills need to be recovered but that’s easy. Tremendous low end muscle, tight low end, wonderful midrange and top end. They give up very little to the L7. To build a surround system using this entire series makes for a mind boggling experience. Using the L5 for two channel music is delightful. Their efficient, easy to drive and always give you the best from attached equipment. As I have upgraded the quality of my equipment, the speakers change their characteristics.

Really for me, other than the plastic bases.

O.K. Late to the review party for my L5's made in the U.S.A. Bottom line - if you find these in decent working condition, just buy them. Period. I bought these used for a song back in 2013. One of my best hi-fi equipment purchases of all time (I'm 60 and from Hollyweird). They sit in our modest living room with vaulted ceilings and un-equidistant from the side walls. Powered by either a Yam. RX-659 Receiver (don't laugh - it's measured at 120wpc, both channels driven into 8 ohms and 200wpc, both channels into 4 ohms), or with a Crown XLS-2500 (about 600+ watts into the JBL's static 6 Ohm impedance), these speaker can ROCK. I have pushed them with the Crown into just touching the clip signal and the L5's were unscathed. Can you say Led Zep or Pink Floyd are playing in your living room?!? Fits my major criterion for anything associated for reproducing music, live or in the studio - are the musicians there in front of you? They also sound good at low volume. How did the engineers do that? Mine were received with out the bottom plates, which I believe props them up and inch or so. I am anal about my reproduced music, so I occasionally prop them up on small foot stools. Seems to mitigate the need for bass traps and helps if you're not sitting down to listen.

Rear port so distance from rear wall/corner carries some significance for bass response. Great output down to 35 Hz. but don't expect much more below that (of course). Titanium tweeter a bit harsh at live club spl. Have had some speakers (Vandersteen; Infinity; Polk; Def. Tech; DCM) that are a little better soundstaging and imaging, but that quality is also dependent on the room/set-up.

I bought a new condo in 1993 and wanted new speakers as well, so I had a budget of $3,000 and I listened to many speakers before I bought a pair of JBL L-5's for $1,100 because nothing sounded as good for under $3,000. Today they are in my new house and they sound as good as the day I brought them home to my old condo. I still love them!

Las tengo sonando con un pequeño equipo LG de los de ahora y que barbaro que bien y alto suenan creo que debido a su alta sensibilidad, no mas de 15 watts les meto y suenan como de 100. Ya no mas subwwoofer al menos yo ya no.

I just purchased a pair of JBL L-5 speakers at our local swap meet that are in excellent condition except for a couple of nicks. I paid $70 for the pair which I thought was a pretty good price. They take some getting used to because their much crisper than the rock and roll Denon SC 907"s speakers my son has in his room, which is where I put them. Is it worth adding a powered sub woofer to the mix?

These were given to me as a gift from a friend who was trying to get rid of them. One of the nicest gifts a musician can receive, especially considering that much of my out-of-studio reference listening over the last 3 years has been through little plug in computer speakers with mp3 sources.

The L5's were plugged into a Denon receiver, without any additional amplification. Much of the listening has been done from either cassette sources, or DVD movies. In both cases, it has been exciting to get lost in the center of the swirl. I haven't felt the need to plug in the subwoofer, cause the bass response within my apartment is sufficient. Any more, and I'd be competing with the various lowriders that cruise throughout my block.

The most fun for me has been checking out the sound mixes of the DVDs I have. Even though most are mixed in 5.1, the stereo image that the L5's are putting out in my space is enough to put a smile on my face. I'll mention the bass again. The Denon has a "cinema EQ" preset, which is basically a bass booster. The L5's hear it nicely. Today I checked out "Apocalypse Now", and the first scene with the chopper napalming the trees over "This Is The End" is pretty intense.

Guess I'd better be careful with "Black Hawk Down".

The other smile has come from Deutsce Grammophon cassettes. Yesterday I checked out some Haydn string quartets. Very nice response in the upper partials of the cello, as well as catching the friction of the bows against the strings.

I can really hear the difference when I plug my iPod in. It's all cold and prickly inside. The noticeable contrast between the mp3 and the cassette source was like I've been shacked up with an ugly chick for three years, and all of a sudden a supermodel showed up in my bed. I saw the light, and kicked the ugly girl to the curb.

Good thing that classical cassettes are in a 'buyers market' these days.

I'm still new to this format, in time, maybe the excitement will wane, but for now, I'm pretty stoked about my JBL L5's.

Power handling, sound, clarity, precison, imaging, and looks.

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I use these as rear speakers to my front L-7s. They provide a great audio signature to complement the L-7s and the SVA-1800 that I'm using as a center. I replaced smaller speakers, and the difference is absolutely amazing. Obviously, they won't be taxed often in their position as rear speakers, but when the source material demands a lot, I no longer have to cringe as the the sound from the rear distorts. The L-5s can handle virtually anything, and they sound awesome doing it.

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