Haint
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When I listened to the more expensive model: Jbl HDI 3600 - I personally found them sort of lacking clarity in the high end and a mushy low end. Maybe it's because I compared to B&W Diamonds and Martin Logans in the same room/ended up buying Magnepan LRS's oddly enough the same day? I wanted to like the HDI 3600's as I like my 306 mkii's for the the price (in a 7.1 surround setup) but The HDI's were to me - the worst sounding I listened to that day :/
Could have been the same issue Amirm's listening tests ran into with a peaking room mode muddying bass and obscuring higher details. Demos in an unknown room, usually with the comparisons speakers in different positions, are as useless as subjective "reviews" IMO.
I really hope someone sends in a Revel M106 soon. I would be very grateful. I know some measurements are available, but I would love to really see what a non-entry-level Revel speaker can do, and in this way perhaps better see the Harman approach at work (acknowledging, of course, just how good the M16 is). I assume its review would help solidify our view of and our expectations in engineering terms for the upper level for smaller, non-studio monitor speakers.
MZKM would be better to comment on this, but I would guess the M16's preference score is likely dragged down pretty significantly by the bass hump (easily correctable) and >10Khz roll off (increasingly less audible to most), so it will be difficult to draw any conclusions beyond Amirm's listening impressions. I expect the M106 and BE will score quite a bit better by virtue of (likely) avoiding those anomalies, but a single filter on that bass hump and a preference score weighted by frequency would likely see the M16 coming dangerously close.
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