I meant a general "you", not you in particular, sorry for confusion. But yes, we agree then. That is one reason I'm waiting to see JBL take on this market segment before I buy anything this year.
I had bought this unit and had it sent to Amir with the hopes that it wouldn't have had to make quite so many...compromises? Excuses for why they couldn't or shouldn't have to meet even their own 'specs' populated in their sparsely populated spec sheets? Maybe that should have been my first clue...
The question for me wasn't just whether it would work...it's whether they got it right. They just didn't get enough right, IMO, to make me want to keep it.
Anyway, I thought this would be a great unit for Amir to test, as it comes from a company that has recently gotten a lot right, and had gotten a lot of very worthy praise on this site. I am disappointed that it didn't turn out (seemingly) to have had that last round of review, where someone(s) with the very highest level of competence could have gotten involved a little earlier.
I was going to pay $4k if it had needed fewer excuses as to why we shouldn't expect so much.
I will also wait for the upcoming JBL offering...and will continue to suffer through with using my Integra 80.3 pre-pro...which I actually like a lot.
By the way...for anyone thinking of either sending your existing gear, or having something drop shipped to
@amirm after purchase, he couldn't have made it easier, or been more responsive to my time limitations. Happy to do it again for the JBL if he can't get a donor.
I hope all of the noise generated by these reviews let's these high dollar (at least relatively speaking) sellers Understand that they need to get it right.
They are running out of excuses, and the more the word spreads, the less they can hide behind marketing copy and all the other standard nonsense.