This is fun. Start another thread.Okay...this has been beaten to death, and I joined in on the fun as well. LOL! Move one....nothing else to see here. Time to bash some other new product.
OK, OK. As in the days of the past: 4311 and L100.Okay...this has been beaten to death, and I joined in on the fun as well. LOL! Move one....nothing else to see here. Time to bash some other new product.
Okay...this has been beaten to death, and I joined in on the fun as well. LOL! Move one....nothing else to see here. Time to bash some other new product.
Interesting comparison. Is the L100 Classic just a makeover of the 70th. Anniversary from last year? View attachment 1087677View attachment 1087678
Okay...this has been beaten to death, and I joined in on the fun as well. LOL! Move one....nothing else to see here. Time to bash some other new product.
I saw your pic on Sterophile...here's another. They look like a cheap, mass produced box to me. I think they're being made in China.
Is the bass driver 12"? What hifi mentions 20cm and I read elsewhere it is 12".
Absolutely. Chinese labor is a tiny fraction of ours, and manufacturing tolerances are looser (IMO). There are so many companies slapping big, old names on inferior products. They sell well. Our Toyota has a JBL sound system in it and it sounds no better than the POS in my 2006 Saturn Vue."LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--HARMAN International, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd."
This is the part that is the problem for me. If they are going to be manufactured in the USA, then $4k is probably an OK price. If they are going to be made in China, or elsewhere in the Far East, it smacks of just jacking the price up because of the JBL name. Because you know, they could make these in China for less than $500.
Lee.
I find it interesting that JBL is connecting with its legacy models after Harman International was purchased by Samsung.
It is quite possible that someone at Samsung is a JBL fan....and/or cutting R&D on new models was a move to make the JBL look more profitable before the sale.