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Summary:
I bought my 4312's from the navy exchange catalogue while oversees in 1983. I
have had them in storage for 12 years and they had some water drip on one and bunch of mold grew under the grill. I had the connections replaced lower on the speaker because the original ones were unusable. the speaker shop said they were a good speaker and it was too bad I stored them the way I did. I hooked them up to my cheap techniqes surround sound amp and was blown away by their sound. I had a carver amp and pre amp that was stolen and don't remember them sounding that good with records. I am cleaning them up and can notice no problems with them.

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I purchased my JBL 4312's at a garage sale for $100 about three years ago. I had heard of them but never actually had auditioned them. I took them home and connected them to my system, "praying they worked" and they did. I turned up the volume and was surprised. Really surprised! I placed them on 2' tall isolated stands and repositioned them several times in the room before achieving really good stereo imaging. I cranked up some Pink Floyd and I was absolutely blown away by the clarity, punch and ease of power handling. I love to listen to these 4312's loudly for hours at a time. I sold my B&W's that sounded incredible but couldn't handle any power. As far as what I'm using for a system because it does make a difference: Technics 1210 turntable with Ortofon cartridge, A Carver 490t CD player, A Phase Linear 3500 preamplifier, a Phase Linear 700 ll amplifier and Audioquest interconnects throughout. Since I got the 4312's, "I've got a whole new love for all my vinyl". Oh my God, "the punchiness and depth is amazing"! Granted, there's much better loud speakers out there but for the money, "these are the deal of century". I would recommend the JBL 4312's as an affordable, awesome set of speakers to anyone. For the truly clueless, "stay out of Best Buy, they have nothing to compare".

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JBL 4312= Had these for time> First used a modified Hafler D200 and pre-amp 915. Nice sound,small soundstage. Was going to trade for Energy C6. Just got Sunfire amp 300. Wow, Wow Soundstage Alot fuller and deeper.Tried Deep Purple.Stones,Then curiostity Micheal Jackson Thriller. All at High High volumes( sorry upstairs).The door creeping sound was so life like.But Vincent's Prices vocals and laughing was D--, right eerie.Didn't want to push my luck with neighbors. But during the week will be throwing more 70s,80s, and up to current.That Sunfire 300 surprises me with every cd.What it did with the 4312 was jaw dropping and Fun!

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Price Paid:  $500.00 from Store in Nyc

Summary:
definitly worth the money back then... i used to dj for 12 years and i used these.. with the correct amp any jbl will sound incredible...... after djing they sat in atics and basements, and where moved across the country twice...and i decided after about 15 years of sitting and not being used i plugged them in.... i didnt expect much but when some rap song came on the bass kicked and the first note they played in 15 years knocked down a mirror in another room..... ( and broke it unfortunitly ) theses speakers are quite powerfull, but when i hooked them up to a cheesey amp they blew finally, but one of them didnt.... you almost have to TRY to blow them, i enjoyed these.... and now i have two gem sound 600watt speakers.

Strengths:
bass

Weaknesses:
i would have to say verry verry high trebel and low bass.... ( thats after 15 years of no activity though )

Similar Products Used:
jbl control 5 ( 5 of them ) gem sound 600watt

Price Paid:  $499.00 from Subic Bay NAVEX

Summary:
A long, long time ago, in galazy far, far away... Ok, maybe it's not quite that dramatic. I purchased my 4312 Control Monitors brand new when i was in the military and stationed in the Phillippines from the Navy Exchange or NAVEX at Subic Bay (early 1986). Actually, I bought all of my "real" stereo equipment at either the Subic Bay NAVEX or at the Clark Air Base Base Exchange or BX.

At the time I was simply looking to build a decent stereo system for my eventual home use. Currently I'm using them as A/V speakers for my home entertainment system. I love them and always have and always will. Even though voices from the regular TV stations don't really seem to be all that astounding, whenever a little music comes up, they really go into action. Lovely sounds abound!

In a phase, there are the truest sounding speakers that I have ever heard! Not to much base and not to much on the highs. Very, VERY acurate reproduction of whatever you pump into them. You just have to watch what you're pumping into them because anything in the input (amp, speaker cables, CD/DVD player, tape deck, VHS deck, etc) is capable of altering the coloring of the sound.

Strengths:
Anything musical! PERIOD! Sure, they weigh a bit much, but hey, it could be a lot worse. The way i see it, they weigh just about enough at about 45 lbs.

At the time that I bought these, the only speakers that I would have even considered were the Klipsch Herseys. But stayed with the 4312s because I believed that they offered truer music reproduction.

Weaknesses:
As A/V speakers, I would probably say that they are extremely well suited. So I really don't believe that there are any weaknesses with them.

Similar Products Used:
I've compared these with various other speakers and to date, have found nothing similar that offers the bang for the buck... to my ear!

Klipsch Herseys
various Infinity speakers
Polk Audio CRS-SDA+
Bose 901 Mk IV