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Two other products were the 12-inch D131 and the 8-inch D208 cone drivers. The D130 featured a four-inch flat ribbon wire voice coil and Alnico V magnet. The first original product was the D130, a 15-inch transducer for which a variant remained in production for the next 55 years.

Both of these were near-copies of Altec Lansing products. The D175 remained in the JBL catalog through the 1970s. In 1946, JBL produced their first products, the model D101 15-inch loudspeaker and the model D175 high-frequency driver. Lansing Sound' and was further shortened to 'JBL Sound'. After Lansing's contract expired in 1946, he left Altec Lansing and founded Lansing Sound in which later the name changed to 'James B. In 1939, Decker was killed in an airplane crash, the company soon began having financial troubles and, in 1941, Lansing Manufacturing Company was bought by Altec Service Corporation, after which the name changed to ' Altec Lansing'.

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The Iconic was a two-way speaker using a 15-inch woofer for the low frequencies and a compression driver for the highs. In 1936, the Shearer Horn received the Academy Scientific and Technical Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.Д«ased on the experience developed with the Shearer Horn, Lansing produced the Iconic System loudspeaker for cinemas. Lansing Manufacturing was the only firm selling them as Shearer Horns. Western Electric named them Diaphonics, and RCA used them in their RCA Photophones. The Shearer Horn gave the desired improvements and Western Electric and RCA received the contracts to each build 75 units. Blackburn were part of the team that developed the Shearer Horn, with Lansing Manufacturing producing the 285 compression driver and the 15XS bass driver. John Hilliard, Robert Stephens, and John F.

In 1933, head of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) sound department, Douglas Shearer, dissatisfied with the loudspeakers of Western Electric and RCA, decided to develop his own. The firm was named Lansing Manufacturing Company, from March 1, 1927.

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Lansing and his business partner Ken Decker started a company in 1927, in Los Angeles, manufacturing six- and eight-inch speaker drivers for radio consoles and radio sets.

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