{"id":239,"date":"2010-01-01T07:45:36","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T07:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewebgal.com\/wordpress\/?p=239"},"modified":"2010-01-01T07:45:36","modified_gmt":"2010-01-01T07:45:36","slug":"ducklips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/?p=239","title":{"rendered":"Ducklips!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ducklips_front.jpg\" src=\"\/gfx\/blogpix\/ducklips_front.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My upstairs speakers are based on a mid-70s pair of JBL L200 speakers. I loved the look of the cabinets, but the sound was a bit limited. So I added  2405 slot super-tweeters and built new crossovers to make them 3 ways.  A few months back I bought a pair of JBL 2397 Smith horns &#8211; they are mid-range horns, made of grey painted MDF, and designed for a 2 inch compression driver, tho I&#8217;m using them with a pair of adapters and my (cheaper) 1 inch drivers. They replace the &#8220;round&#8221; horns that are in the cabinets, hidden behind the textured foam grill. They sounded very nice but the grey industrial paint was UGLY. So, I found an audio friend who offered to make me a pair in nice wood, and I chose walnut, to match the JBL L200 Cabinets they sit on. They look great and sound WONDERFUL!\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Walnut-DuckLips_3094.jpg\" src=\"\/gfx\/blogpix\/Walnut-DuckLips_3094.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My upstairs speakers are based on a mid-70s pair of JBL L200 speakers. I loved the look of the cabinets, but the sound was a bit limited. So I added 2405 slot super-tweeters and built new crossovers to make them &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/?p=239\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audiophile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258,"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}