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"My ears were trained on my old JBL."
Recent comment from another post. Do we presently chase a sound baked in our brain from our initial experience with audio?
jpwarren58
I don't live in a dorm room anymore, so the sound I hear is nothing like what I hear now, and my gear back then was crap anyway, so for me, it's a whole lot better now; nothing was baked into my brain except my brain itself, that got plenty baked! ;-)
Not for me. In the 70’s, I had the JBL L100A speakers. Good but overbearing bass and the highs were way too bright. Also, it was too much in your face. I had to back way off on the treble. I bought the new L100 Classics last December. Although the speakers look the same, the sound is much different. No more overbearing bass and the highs are so much better, a totally different speaker that looks like the original.

I never would have bought the new pair if they sounded like the old. Thank God they don’t.
 "No. But "we" do jump to unwarranted conclusions, don't "we"?"


A question isn't a conclusion.

I never liked the L100s so no, I'm not pursuing that sound.
And I've heard many of them since they were once ubiquitous.