Mr Argument: Too funny. You are a piece of work. You have no idea who I am, how much I know, and it is you who are trying to impress people. Who cares if you are successful? Who cares how much you paid for your speakers? I don't. I don't care to devolve this into a pissing match. Because there is no end to that. And, it means nothing.
I know what I know based on decades of experience listening to many, many systems at widely varying price levels. And, there is no way to objectively qualify any of it. What I dislike is when people do exactly what this example did...start out with a premise, and then go off tangent talking about unrelated stuff. And, when someone offers a comment on a real world listening event, and intends to actually purchase the item, they are somehow expected to offer up "proof".
If you think that can be found by reading comments about 30 year old, unrelated speakers, by all means, go ahead and accept that. I hope you enjoy your financial success in life, and find ways to help others.
I'd put it in that group.
None of which are my favorite tourism cities, but I understand their attraction. Given my background, I tend to gravitate toward top art museums as a high priority for places to visit.
(FWIW, my favorite tourism cities are Lyon, Hong Kong, Alba, Amsterdam, Vienna, and Prague)
I’m going to Prague in March , any recommendations?I'd put it in that group.
None of which are my favorite tourism cities, but I understand their attraction. Given my background, I tend to gravitate toward top art museums as a high priority for places to visit.
(FWIW, my favorite tourism cities are Lyon, Hong Kong, Alba, Amsterdam, Vienna, and Prague)
I’m going to Prague in March , any recommendations?
JBL specifies the L100 Classic as being nominally a 4ohm design, and Newport Test Labs’ measurements of it bear that out, though they also show that it will be nominally 4ohm only if you set the level controls at 0dB or higher. If you choose to set the level controls below the 0dB mark, the impedance dips to 3ohm at 550Hz, to 2.5ohm at 2kHz and to 2.4ohm at 4.6kHz. Given that the frequency response is the ‘best’ at 0dB and higher, there should be no good reason to set the level controls any lower....
Review with measurements:
* https://7review.com/jbl-l100-classic-review/
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Graph 1. Frequency response. Trace below 1.2kHz is the averaged result of nine individual frequency sweeps measured at three metres, with the central grid point on-axis with the tweeter using pink noise test stimulus with capture unsmoothed. This has been manually spliced (at1.2kHz) to the gated high-frequency response, an expanded view of which is shown in Graph 2.
Thanks for this. That review is very enthusiastic about the bass in the text/listening impressions. A bit surprising given the response curve.
I would not argue against, or for, anything like that. Speakers are really the only remaining significantly subjective component out there. Unless one considers the room, which cannot often be corrected. Get what you like, and enjoy it. I'm sure the KEF is a fine example of what can be done with that form factor and at that price point.For this price I think that the new KEF R11 column, with the little 5.25" coaxial, is better choice to play all kind of music.
https://www.soundstagehifi.com/index.php/equipment-reviews/1300-kef-r11-loudspeakers
Measurements: https://www.soundstagenetwork.com/i...&catid=77:loudspeaker-measurements&Itemid=153
Yep, one mans ceiling is another mans floor.I would not argue against, or for, anything like that. Speakers are really the only remaining significantly subjective component out there. Unless one considers the room, which cannot often be corrected. Get what you like, and enjoy it. I'm sure the KEF is a fine example of what can be done with that form factor and at that price point.
I checked out the HFNRR site for their L100 write up, and what jumped out at me was a story on a Phillips record player. I thought, "Wow. Phillips is getting into the retro thing too. This looks just like their old ones!" Then realized it was a review of an old one, from 1977.The British version of the test results. FYI
https://www.hifinews.com/content/jbl-l100-classic-loudspeaker-lab-report
No axe to grind.