| JBL Spot 2.1 Speakers: Parts
and Review |
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| The JBL spot speakers are quite
unusual looking and are sure to stand out. |
| They are somewhat mushroom shaped
with a base of chrome rings supporting the domed top. |
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| PARTS: |
| The satellites plug into the
subwoofer and the subwoofer has a small dial on the back
to control its volume. |
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| The satellites are interesting in
that their cords are actually wrapped in fabric, like
the cord to your Grandmas old iron. Quite Retro. |
| Volume control is placed on the right
satellite. The volume up and down controls are
touch sensitive with no moving parts. In order to
Mute the system, all one needs to do is touch both up
and down simultaneously. It is a fairly slick
design. |
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| All 3 components can be skinned with
either Black or White shells. Mix and Match to
suit your needs. |
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| REVIEW: |
| We tested the JBL Spot speakers in a
variety of situations. |
| We hooked them up to both a Laptop
and a Desktop system, as well as an IPod. |
| We tested them for a couple weeks
listening to an assortment of music, playing MMORPGs,
and watching Videos. |
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| The first thing we did was crank them
up to see how loud they get. We are happy to say
they can pump out quite a bit of sound. |
| Most notable was that there was no
distortion at all, even at max volume. |
| JBL uses a couple of technologies
called Minimum Audio Parameter Shift (MAPS) and
Optimized Compression Topology (OCT) to ensure that the
sound is distortion free at high volumes. This
tech seems to work perfectly. |
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| The satellites sound great, and
produce clear sound. There is a slight amount of
tinniness but overall they rock. |
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| Unfortunately the Subwoofer does not
have the sound quality to back them up. It takes
some tweaking to get the subwoofer to perform
adequately. It does not seem to be a good match,
soundwise, for the satellites. It looks good, but
we were unhappy with the sound produced from it. |
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| Both the satellites and the speakers
are powered by Neodymium magnets. |
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| From Rock, to Swing, to New Wave the
sound was clear and distinct and we were able to discern
new bits of music we had never noticed before in our
song collection. |
| IPod playback was flawless, with the
IPod easily controlling the sound volume. |
| For gaming the sound was most
excellent. One wont get the 3D positional effects
of a 5.1 system from a 2.1 but the sound is quite good. |
| The movies we tried sounded fine and
the speakers performed adequately. |
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