paritosh
Active Member
Funny (bad) Experience While Audutioning JBL Studio One
hi
i went down to JBL store at my local dealer in Rajkot, Guj. for a second audition of JBL Studio One pkg.
i was really surpriced how ill informed the guy there was. after a little time listening to the Eagle's Hotel Callifornia multi channel audio in DTS format, i felt something was wrong. felt the sorrounds were putting in a lot of efforts while the front towers were almost disapeared. so, to clear out the doubt, i asked him to switch over to Sterio mode instead of 5.1 channel. to that the guy said that he will have to use another CD, the AVR 142 did not have the ability to convert it to 2 channel. what an .......!!! and he said he did not have one there... i said i could bring one from my car and he acted as if he remembered something and said he had one somewhere in the stores. he replaced the disc and played it. after listening for a few seconds i asked him to check the connections. i said he had connected fronts to the rear ports and rears to the fronts!!! he did not agree. i took the remote from him and switched the AVR to sterio mode (which the dealer said was not possible) to our horrible surprice, only the rear pair was firing and the towers were completely muted!!! then he agreed with me and checked his connections on the AVR and realiseed the mistake and re connected the speakers properly. we again played the same track in both sterio and multi channel mode. i could finally audition the capabilities of the Studio 180 FS pair in totality
it was the first time i was audutioning a pair of towers and they sounded a bit boomy to me. the room might be the culprit there as it was just 8 ft wide and 12ft long with towers set at about 1ft away from side and rear walls.
what i mean to say is that a brand like HK should ensure that their products are displayed in as good a condition as possible and not
the clumsy way i auditioned today.
hi
i went down to JBL store at my local dealer in Rajkot, Guj. for a second audition of JBL Studio One pkg.
i was really surpriced how ill informed the guy there was. after a little time listening to the Eagle's Hotel Callifornia multi channel audio in DTS format, i felt something was wrong. felt the sorrounds were putting in a lot of efforts while the front towers were almost disapeared. so, to clear out the doubt, i asked him to switch over to Sterio mode instead of 5.1 channel. to that the guy said that he will have to use another CD, the AVR 142 did not have the ability to convert it to 2 channel. what an .......!!! and he said he did not have one there... i said i could bring one from my car and he acted as if he remembered something and said he had one somewhere in the stores. he replaced the disc and played it. after listening for a few seconds i asked him to check the connections. i said he had connected fronts to the rear ports and rears to the fronts!!! he did not agree. i took the remote from him and switched the AVR to sterio mode (which the dealer said was not possible) to our horrible surprice, only the rear pair was firing and the towers were completely muted!!! then he agreed with me and checked his connections on the AVR and realiseed the mistake and re connected the speakers properly. we again played the same track in both sterio and multi channel mode. i could finally audition the capabilities of the Studio 180 FS pair in totality
it was the first time i was audutioning a pair of towers and they sounded a bit boomy to me. the room might be the culprit there as it was just 8 ft wide and 12ft long with towers set at about 1ft away from side and rear walls.
what i mean to say is that a brand like HK should ensure that their products are displayed in as good a condition as possible and not
the clumsy way i auditioned today.
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