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Some impressions of JBL 4367

My friend brought in a set of JBL's new model the 4367,he is allowing me to have a listen in my system while he is out of town. These really had my interest as in the early 90's I was in the business for a while and sold Electro Voice. Then I wanted a set of 15" 2-way but my wife seemed to think road cabinets clashed with our décor, LOL. The EV horns sounded really good and as I have learned so do the JBL. Too many years have past to even think about comparing.

They only had a few hours on them so after an initial listen I suspected some break in was in order. After about 30 hours of playing via a tuner in mono they transformed to an enjoyable listen.

These are the speaker if you want to be at the performance, or, have it in your listening room. The horns have tons of detail, focused, dynamic and most important non-fatiguing. I was driving them with Levinson SACD & 532h power amp with a Pass XP10 sandwiched in. The bass is detailed and strong, maybe a bit of emphasis in the midbass but not bad once broke in. From a 15" driver it will have bass like at the performance but as usual recording quality dependent.Although the bass has weight it was still quick and detailed. Cymbals and brass have an incredible realism, as well as most piano. Vocals are very intelligible, nice inflection, seemingly right there but in a neutral way, no artificial warmth. Actually everything I say is in a context of neutral but far from sterile, at least with my system, the 4367 can be tuneful and plenty of toe tapping dynamics.

There are a couple areas the 4367 fall some short in my book. First the sound stage is wide but not so tall. A side note, I do not have the spikes, I can't imagine those bringing the 4367's up much but it could allow a slight tilt back. As mentioned the 4367 has ample bass but if you have recordings that go deep, like some of the Reference Classical, maybe a modern album with low synth, you will notice the 4367 can't reproduce those extreme frequencies. At least they haven't demonstrated it to me and that's something I've never had happen with more break in, a speaker going deeper.

The 4367 is a 2-way with larger horn and compression driver with a 15" low end driver.Crossover point is 700 Hz. They can be bi-amped. 6 ohm and 94 dB.

Needless to say the 4367 will play as loud as you can stand with the sound remaining clear and the overall frequency response not changing.


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Topic - Some impressions of JBL 4367 - Mr Peabody 21:34:28 12/27/15 (0)

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