LooneyTunez
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Of course I know that speaker preference is highly subjective, but I need some feedback from owners of the JBL LSR25Ps.
I picked them up last night, and well, I'm less than impressed with them. Biggest complaint is that there seems to be a rather large hump in the bass/midbass area (maybe in the 100-200hz range)...I would describe them as tubby sounding. I also noticed the speaker enclosure is actually resonating right where I'm hearing the tubby sound (this should not happen in a well designed speaker). I've played with different positions (on the desk, off the desk on stands, closer and farther from the back wall, flipped the boundary switch on the speakers, etc) and still cannot get rid of that hump. Secondly, the mids/highs sound a bit on the metalic side...Very unnatural sounding. Reverbs seem to be way too exagerrated, and the stereo image does not seem all that stable either. I've got a few CDs that place the vocal dead center and in your face, and that image is stable as a rock on my main speakers. The JBLs seem to be far less defined with center images. I hate to use the 'A' word, but the sound of these remind me of the Alesis Monitor 1's from way back. *hold me I'm scared*
So, did I get a bad batch of crack and I'm wacked about something here, or do others of you notice the same things I'm hearing?
I will be listening to some other monitors today. KRK V6, Mackie 624 and Event 20/20Bas. I'm hoping to find something more suited to what I consider a natural sound.
I picked them up last night, and well, I'm less than impressed with them. Biggest complaint is that there seems to be a rather large hump in the bass/midbass area (maybe in the 100-200hz range)...I would describe them as tubby sounding. I also noticed the speaker enclosure is actually resonating right where I'm hearing the tubby sound (this should not happen in a well designed speaker). I've played with different positions (on the desk, off the desk on stands, closer and farther from the back wall, flipped the boundary switch on the speakers, etc) and still cannot get rid of that hump. Secondly, the mids/highs sound a bit on the metalic side...Very unnatural sounding. Reverbs seem to be way too exagerrated, and the stereo image does not seem all that stable either. I've got a few CDs that place the vocal dead center and in your face, and that image is stable as a rock on my main speakers. The JBLs seem to be far less defined with center images. I hate to use the 'A' word, but the sound of these remind me of the Alesis Monitor 1's from way back. *hold me I'm scared*
So, did I get a bad batch of crack and I'm wacked about something here, or do others of you notice the same things I'm hearing?
I will be listening to some other monitors today. KRK V6, Mackie 624 and Event 20/20Bas. I'm hoping to find something more suited to what I consider a natural sound.