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bowtie2
Audiophyte
Just moved into a bigger place so I wanted a Bigger stereo. JBL was a favorite among friends a long time ago and i have great memories of getting visited by the cops late at night listening to the L100t's. I looked around locally and found a clean pair of CF100's and thought I would start out with that and progress up. I have a JVC RX803V pushing them and have tried a JVC 5 disc changer and a Magnavox HDMI DVD player as well. I also tried a Yamaha Amp. The problem is that they are really bright and harsh no matter what I plug them in to. I have them well away from the rear wall (12') in a narrow room and 8' from me and eachother toed into my head, about 2' away from the side walls, though I have tried many different positions including a sever toe out which wasnt terrible. I cant seem to get the treble under control and when I turn it down too low the sound stage falls on the floor and i loose all those great JBL highs, and vocals. The speakers have an almost hissing sound and at high volume usually there is some kind of strong harmonic resonating. I took the grilles off the mid range drivers which seemed to help a little. While they are not L100t's I hoped to get some mileage out of them. Thanks in advance for your replies.
