Chris Hagen’s official job title is Principal Engineer for the JBL Luxury Audio Group, and he is responsible for designing some of our favourite speakers of recent years. He first started working for JBL back in 1988, his first job being to develop the L100 T3 speaker.
In a neatly poetic coincidence, one of his recent projects has been designing the reborn and hugely successful new JBL L100 Classic speakers. During our recent visit to JBL’s loudspeaker facilities in Northridge, California, we spoke to him about his life in audio, how his interest was kindled and where it led him.
What Hi-Fi?: What made you interested in hi-fi?
As a young teenager I was keen to be able to play my music whenever I wanted to. I didn’t have much money, but was able to afford a receiver and
