JBL Ti1K Center (1999)
The JBL Ti1K Center is a center-channel speaker from JBL's TiK series, released in 1999 at ¥145,000. It's a 2-way, 3-speaker bass reflex design with magnetic shielding. It uses a pair of 13.3 cm cone woofers (805J-S) and a 2.5 cm dome tweeter (Ti025K-S). The tweeter has JBL's pure titanium diaphragm with an aluminum voice coil, and JBL claimed it extended response beyond 30 kHz. The rated frequency range is 70 Hz to 30 kHz. The crossover sits at 2.8 kHz, sensitivity is 88 dB/2.83V/m, impedance is 6 Ω, and it handles 100W.
The enclosure is an original round design, which is unusual for a center speaker. It has a bass reflex port with a die-cast tapered flange to smooth airflow. The crossover network is independent per band, with low-DC-resistance coils, high-quality capacitors, and glass epoxy boards. A damping material and a back cavity behind the tweeter push harmful low-frequency resonance below the crossover band. Input is via gold-plated terminals. It weighs 8.7 kg and measures 580 × 195 × 295 mm (W×H×D).
Documentation on this model is thin. No period reviews have surfaced, and the full spec sheet comes from a single Japanese database entry. Used listings have appeared across Europe and Central Asia, including one German listing at €190 and one Kazakh listing at KZT 150,000. One Russian listing suggested a ~$1600 retail price. No verified owner reviews or long-term reliability notes exist in the record.
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