Our first note here is a warning not to confuse JBL’s model numbers. The headphone here is the Live 660NC, its recommended selling price $249.95. But there is another 660NC, the Tune 660NC, which sells for $149.95. Both are wireless noise-cancelling headphones, but one is circum-aural, the other is supra-aural – or for those of you no longer speaking Latin, over-ear and on-ear. We didn’t realise this ourselves until we were mid-review – otherwise we might have told you more about the new Tune variant in news this issue! Retailers and shoppers may be similarly confused. Given all the combinations of letters and numbers available to marketing teams, we’d perhaps question the wisdom of using the same ones twice in the same year. But there you go; semantics aside now,…
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Sound + Image (Digital) - 1 Issue, November - December 2021