JBL SV400C
The JBL SV400C is a center-channel speaker from JBL's SV series. It sold in Japan at ¥30,000 per unit. It's a 2-way, 3-speaker bass-reflex design with magnetic shielding, so it can sit atop or below a display without messing up the picture.
A pair of 10 cm cone woofers handles the low end. Their cones are pure pulp, white. The high frequencies come from a horn-loaded 1.9 cm semi-hard dome tweeter. The tweeter diaphragm gets a titanium laminate treatment for added rigidity, and the horn/equalizer combination is intended to control directivity toward the listening position. The enclosure is 12 mm MDF with a wood-like finish. Crossover is set at 9.5 kHz.
One owner review on Kakaku.com (a Japanese price-comparison and review site) says purists might scoff at the budget price, but the SV400C still sounds unmistakably JBL. The reviewer also found it pairs surprisingly well with the larger 4312D speakers.
Documentation on this model is thin. No production years, product family context or official JBL literature has surfaced. What's known comes largely from Japanese retail and appraisal listings.
- Type: 2-way, 3-speaker, bass-reflex, center channel, magnetically shielded
- Woofers: 10 cm cone ×2 (pure pulp white cone)
- Tweeter: 1.9 cm semi-hard dome, horn-loaded, titanium-laminated diaphragm
- Frequency response: 75 Hz – 20 kHz
- Sensitivity: 91 dB / 2.83V/m
- Impedance: 6 Ω
- Power handling: 75W (music)
- Crossover: 9.5 kHz
- Dimensions (with grille): 420 × 135 × 171 mm (W×H×D)
- Weight: 4.4 kg
- Original price: ¥30,000 (1 unit)
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