Originally Posted by
BMWCCA
So, since the only visible change was ditching the raised baffle and changing the tweeter and, according to the history on this site, the baffle made no difference, why did the JBL engineers make a change for the worse (as many imply) when there was really no cost-savings involved? At the time, apparently, the changes were considered an improvement so who's right and who's wrong? How and why are the latter considered dog-doo by an acclaimed producer and the former considered "gold" even though few here have much respect for either. Is there really such a dichotomous difference in two such similar boxes? Or is it all in what one got used to, or just bad memory?