Ribbed K120 Re-cone?

[7704A]

I cam across a listing for a re-coned JBL K120. Except... the cone has ribs??!? My first thought was that the guy who did it was either a hack, or a fraud, or a hack-fraud, but @Hiwatts-n-Gibsons mentioned comparing some smooth to ribbed EV SRO re-cones and not noticing big differences, which made me think that maybe there are some legitimate JBL re-cones happening with ribs. Anyone have experience with this? @VonBonfire, I know you've had JBLs re-coned. Any with ribs?

 

[VonBonfire]

I cam across a listing for a re-coned JBL K120. Except... the cone has ribs??!? My first thought was that the guy who did it was either a hack, or a fraud, or a hack-fraud, but @Hiwatts-n-Gibsons mentioned comparing some smooth to ribbed EV SRO re-cones and not noticing big differences, which made me think that maybe there are some legitimate JBL re-cones happening with ribs. Anyone have experience with this? @VonBonfire, I know you've had JBLs re-coned. Any with ribs?
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Never had any with ribs. Makes me wonder where they got the recone kit. My understanding is that all the kits are E kits. The foam surround looks normal but the ribs...that's new to me. I'm sure someone has had more D's and K's than me that might have some insight....

 

[Exo-metal]

For her pleasure

 

[7704A]

Makes me wonder where they got the recone kit.

Same thing I'm wondering.

 

[Alpha Stryke]

OG JBL's didn't have ribs as i recall. There isn't anything nessacarily "wrong" w/a good recone if done well.

 

[ChurchHill]

No idea about where they got the kit, but that's not right for a K120. It kinda looks like a D123, though, kinda. Still doesn't look right.

 

[shredi knight]

 

[thegame]

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Rumour has it @VonBonfire has blown a lot of JBLs

 

[7704A]

Called the guy, he says he thinks he got the cone from McKenzie, and he wasn't paying too much attention to which. Just looked for the one labeled K120 and grabbed that. I haven't (yet) found a K120 kit with ribs, but if he wasn't paying close attention maybe he grabbed the wrong kit.