Over the years, there have been many complaints about how you cannot find JBL speakers in traditional hi-fi stores these days. Of course, the state of affairs with traditional brick and mortar stores of all types is a contributing factor, but with JBL there is also the direct competition between Harman/JBL and their dealers.
In an old 4341 thread one poster brought up the JBL Studio 590 speakers. These are objectively pretty good speakers which are fairly compact for a full sized speaker and pretty reasonably priced… but Harman obviously doesn’t want dealers to demonstrate and sell them. They would rather sell them factory direct.
Currently they are offering them at $399 each with free shipping! https://www.harmanaudio.com/STUDIO+5...fzJupIZBhxUOGM
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