After all, the price tag reads 4200 Euros without and 4500 Euros with the matching stands. For example, we found the workmanship of the sturdy 25 mm housing with its walnut wood foil rather "good" than "very good" somewhat rustic and "pragmatic", in an American way. Some criticism should be allowed and expressed.
#Large advent speaker crossover movie#
This may be a stupid question towards the STEREO reader, but have you seen the movie "High Fidelity"? Because then you understand this speaker and its right to exist! In the past, this kind of loudspeaker actually played mainly in record stores, where music lovers met behind and in front of the counter. This has such a power and energy that it will surprise nobody that such, admittedly old, combinations are desired and cherished by many Oldie fans. Take a good integrated amplifier – preferably, for example, an old Sansui like the AU-7900 or AU-717, which was developed with such loudspeakers – and listen to rock music through them. Your foot starts to tap along, the feel-good factor is enormous. The front-mounted midrange and tweeter controls are by no means just for show, but prove their worth, for example, with unfavorable room damping. JBL has succeeded in forming these three drivers into an extremely harmonious whole, with a modern, high-quality crossover smoothly dividing the labor of the drivers at 4 Hertz. The fast midrange cone and the tweeter, which reminds of the titanium dome tweeters of the late 90s, are a congenial fit and need not hide from high-end competitors. This is also due to the high efficiency of 90 dB, the lower cut-off frequency of less than 30 Hertz (!) and the low distortion that is noticeable over the entire spectrum. Thanks to the typical JBL pure pulp cones, plastic-coated for increased speed and tailor-made for hi-fi, there is still enough of the speed the larger models have – known from the PA sector – to make some of the more audiophile competitors pale in comparison.