I hooked up my Control 10's this evening for S&G's, and because I've never actually played them through my reference electronics before; I thought it would be a fun experiment. Nice speaker, and for the price that I see them go for these days (and with some judicious use of the L-pads) they represent what I would say is a good bang for the buck.
In the product literature JBL describes them as "forward voiced." I would tend to agree. What confuses is me is that they are also advertised with frequency response of +/- 3dB from 35-27 (in line with stats I've seem on some studio monitors) and as possessing "musical accuracy."
Maybe a stupid question, but if they have frequency response that "flat" what actually makes them forward voiced? I looked at their frequency response graph in comparison to a few studio monitors and home speakers, and the Control 10's are a bit less smooth, but not what I would call notably so. Then again, I'm not an engineer, so maybe it's just my untrained eye.
Just curious...