I listened to a couple of B&W recently at a hifi store, and was verry off put by all the bass they were trying to achive. and these sound the same, even though I can hear a lot of Hizz in this video recording, I can make out a clear destinct difference. Dont understand that B&W 3way speaker can lack so much detail. JBL is the way to go!
Drums sounded so much better on the B&W but you can barely even hear the guitar, yikes. JBL sounded pretty bad to be honest, like it was playing through a telephone. At least you could hear the guitar on the JBL though. Wasn't expecting this result, wanted to like the JBL.
If you don't hear the battery on the jbl then you have ear problems friend .... the jbl sound is damn bigger and more precise because it has the frequency response less emphasized on the ends of the band for what it seems to you as in the phone but it will be enough, to according to your taste, increase the treble knob and you're done
JBL vs B&W=Porsche vs Trabant or Moskvich.....Last year I made a comparison between the JBL K2 S9900 and the B & W 800D3 Diamond .... the music test is LP SQ John Keating Space Experience ....Turntable Thorens TD 126 MKII.....Amplifier H&K Citation XX & preamp XXP......The result.....JBL search(need and want) more power....much more power...sound loud and clear in shade.....amazing panorama...deep stage deep bass....the walls are shaken....7 degree earthquake.....radiates enormous dynamics and space.....Harman gave all but needed more.......as opposed to B&W which sank into mourning....on 150 W bass driver is capitulate (shooted&farts) and the test we continued with less power.....dynamic=zero.....deep bass (17 Hz is SF).....medium and high tones is screamingly not natural.....second test Also sprach Zarathustra......difference even worse ......I worked tests with Martin Logan and old Sequel and B&W....result same. Sequel is in midle and high Queen...bass is litle opaque....The test we proceeded with a tube amplifier with 4 tube 6CA7 at the output (home made)...After that, Bowers sounded better....no irritating highs, but Tube Amp is not HiFi....JBL work slower...but better than Bowers
