Sad for us UK people as I doubt we'll ever get to hear them based on past performance.
I heard the 4367 just under two years ago, Levinson driven and fell madly in love with them. 'Course they're huge for our rooms here and they have no style-cred as Dynaudio or PMC's do, but I loved the big intimate kind of sound I was hearing and felt that low stands could tweak the slight 'ripeness' or 'richness' I heard (not boom as in small BBC porty-boxes). I spoke to the dealer who'd organised this show and apparently I was the ONLY PERSON who'd expressed an interest in them!
Last year, the L100 Classic came out and above dealer had some on trial (and never bloody told me
). Loved the funky tones but decided not to carry them as they are purely a 'retro' speaker and again of no interest to modern audiophiles at all, mainly as WAF has a say in what goes in their living rooms
it was suggested the L100 Classic may well fade away after initial interest was gone (a UK-centric view not necessarily shared anywhere else). Again, despite a positive news article on the dealer's website, I was the only one excited about them apparently.
Now we have these. Maybe not as high-tech measuring as Revel's pretty-boxes, I still expect them to be pretty damned good with an ease and grace on dynamics at lower volumes rarely heard from modern slimline passive boxes and hopefully the ability to kick ass when expected (as all 'proper' JBL's should do). I'd love to hear a pair, but without travelling hundreds of miles in this overcrowded island, I doubt it'll ever be possible and to me, that's an effin' shame!
I dunno. The latest PMC or Dynaudio gets a huge response and plenty of sales regardless, yet speakers like this (proper passive boxes in my opinion) just get ignored as they look so old fashioned, the design going into the tweeter waveguide and so on totally ignored as it looks plastic and no bling. Just think, here we can buy a Kudos Titan model for similar money and these were designed purely by ear alone apparently
They sell well too, to the Naim crowd at least.......