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In Reply to: John Atkinson - Studio Monitors vs Audiophile Speakers posted by Jeff Starr on June 15, 2016 at 12:39:07:
Like many pro monitoring speakers, the JBL M2s are equalized to be flat on the listening axis. Studio environments are (generally speaking) acoustically dead reflection-free zones, so what the engineer hears at the listening position is a flat response. Home listening rooms are not acoustically dead, and the response at the listening position is significantly influenced by the loudspeaker's off-axis response, which is not flat. So to understand how the JBLs will sound in a home environment, look at the power response.
The JBL M2s combine a large conventional woofer and a horn loaded tweeter with a crossover around 800Hz. So up to 800Hz they will exhibit increasing directivity, and above that they will have constant directivity. JBL is nice enough to publish the power response of the M2, and you can see that the change in directivity through the crossover region will result in a dip of a few dB in the midrange, centered around the crossover. Thus they won't sound quite as neutral in a typical domestic room, especially in the far field, as compared to the studio. Also, the low-mid treble might sound subjectively a little bright.
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