soldier
07-12-2007, 02:11 AM
Hello,
I'm new to this forum and I found this forum because I wanted to sell my XPL 200's and looked around for a reasonable marketprice. But reading this forum I found out that I seem to be in the possesion of something special...;)
I bought my speakers 15 years ago, on telephone, while I was on an exercise, so without much listening and comparisations with other speakers. That came only afterwards and I was confirmed in the decision to keep them. But for two months my wife started urging me to get rid of these big speakers because we moved to another house. So I went to the local audio dealer and had them checked in order to sell them (which costed me 400 euro b.t.w.) But when they came back I couldn't resist to compare them with the best what the dealer had to offer. I expected that my XPL's would be no match for the big B&W's, Thiels and Dynaudio's. That was what my dealer expected as well (allways willing to sell new speakers to me offcourse...). Now: we were both very surprised to find out that the JBL's outplayed the bigger speakers of the other brands easely. The dealer spent half his morning in amazement and bringing in several new speakers to compare in despair.
We both concluded that the XPL's won on dynamic's and an uncolored soundpicture. But the placing of the instruments and vocals in between the speakers could be a little better. We also found the high tones, allthough brilliantly clear and clean, maybe a bit too sharp (and therefor a bit tireing after a while)
Now instead of buying new smaller speakers, I want to stay with my XPL200's (sorry for my wife...), but I also want to make the best out of what I have. I read some postings that with a DX-1 and bi-amping an even better sound could be achieved. Now here is the question: How do I do this? Apart from acquiring a DX-1 (does somebody know somebody who wants to sell?) I like to know what I need to have more and do to get this better sound. Or is it not worth the effort?
Regards,
Pieter Soldaat
Netherlands
I'm new to this forum and I found this forum because I wanted to sell my XPL 200's and looked around for a reasonable marketprice. But reading this forum I found out that I seem to be in the possesion of something special...;)
I bought my speakers 15 years ago, on telephone, while I was on an exercise, so without much listening and comparisations with other speakers. That came only afterwards and I was confirmed in the decision to keep them. But for two months my wife started urging me to get rid of these big speakers because we moved to another house. So I went to the local audio dealer and had them checked in order to sell them (which costed me 400 euro b.t.w.) But when they came back I couldn't resist to compare them with the best what the dealer had to offer. I expected that my XPL's would be no match for the big B&W's, Thiels and Dynaudio's. That was what my dealer expected as well (allways willing to sell new speakers to me offcourse...). Now: we were both very surprised to find out that the JBL's outplayed the bigger speakers of the other brands easely. The dealer spent half his morning in amazement and bringing in several new speakers to compare in despair.
We both concluded that the XPL's won on dynamic's and an uncolored soundpicture. But the placing of the instruments and vocals in between the speakers could be a little better. We also found the high tones, allthough brilliantly clear and clean, maybe a bit too sharp (and therefor a bit tireing after a while)
Now instead of buying new smaller speakers, I want to stay with my XPL200's (sorry for my wife...), but I also want to make the best out of what I have. I read some postings that with a DX-1 and bi-amping an even better sound could be achieved. Now here is the question: How do I do this? Apart from acquiring a DX-1 (does somebody know somebody who wants to sell?) I like to know what I need to have more and do to get this better sound. Or is it not worth the effort?
Regards,
Pieter Soldaat
Netherlands