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NewsJBL HDI-3800 Floorstanding Loudspeakers:
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1/1/23 When I first started to listen to the JBL HDI-3800, I was struggling a bit to figure out where these sit in the marketplace, and who exactly they were made for. They lacked the bass output of a similarly priced (sister brand) Revel F208 or the (now discontinued) GoldenEar Triton Ones at the same price. They are more expensive than the JBL L100 with a lot of fun-factor and they don’t have the analytical presentation of the audiophile-type speakers in that price range. What JBL has done with the new 3800 is to create a set of speakers that not only straddle that line between the fun/party speakers (sports car) and the analytical/audiophile speakers (luxury car) but also to provide a range deep into both categories that will make it appealing to a wide variety of consumers regardless of their listening tastes and habits.
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