![]() I knew the guys inside listening would have to come out of there sooner or later, and when they did, I would dash right in. The grail I pursued was in the far back room, with all of the McIntosh gear and was off limits. They must have stapled my picture up in the employees lounge because the next time I visited the HiFi shop, all of the salesmen were instantly busy. Just like the auto-racing philosophy of selling on Monday what you ran on Sunday, the audio enthusiast of 1973 saw the L-100 as something to aspire to, including yours truly. Introduced at CES in 1970, the L-100 was built upon the strength of JBL’s highly successful 4310 studio monitors. “A lot more than you’ve got, kid.” I found out later on that the MSRP for a pair of Century 100s back in 1973 was $273 each.Īnd so began a life-long interest in HiFi and a disdain for HiFi salesmen. I asked the sales guy, who by now had become pretty tired of answering questions from a kid who obviously wasn’t going to buy anything today how much a pair of these monsters cost. ( Stereophile was a fringe magazine back then, and I would not encounter it and TAS for a few more years.) On the inside cover was a JBL ad, featuring the L-100 Century. There would be no buying JBL’s that day, but I did buy a copy of Stereo Review. ![]() “Reeling in the Years” sounded way better than it ever did on the Zenith table radio at home. At 13 years old, I was highly impressed when the salesman put a copy of Steely Dan’s Can’t Buy a Thrill on the Dual turntable and let it rip. The first pair of “real” HiFi speakers I’d ever heard were JBL’s, a pair of L-26’s to be exact, with orange grille cloth and light oak cabinets. ![]()
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