JBL L75ms A gentle beast

It’s big and wide and heavy, it looks like the top of a concert P.A., yet JBL’s L75ms continues a company legacy of large and relatively hi-fi all-in-one systems.

SUMMARY JBL L75ms Price: $3299 + Big and beautiful + Sensible streaming & HDMI in + Full and punchy sound – No radio or CD – Awful remote control – Avoid ‘SFX’ effect – Crazy position for bass-cut button It was exactly a decade ago that we reviewed a JBL all-in-one system called the Authentics L16. We liked its performance very much, but it was, we warned, quite the size, and also demanded “an aesthetic assessment before you can even consider bringing one into your own home.” It was clearly ‘retro’, we noted, but not the 1950s retro then common; instead a 1970s retro, with clear references to the company’s classic white-woofered JBL L100 Century speakers. The 1970s may have been a golden era for JBL, when its engineers, likely…

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