Sean Olive Interview

[DerekTheGreat]

...Their marketing sucks IMHO. If I use the JBL Consumer site to look for dealers I get 2 professional installers. They don't even reference the Harmon store in Manhattan if it's still there. There are very few stores left like Best Buy as an example and JBL is not there?

Go up on the Consumer site and take a look at what you can actually purchase. Sure you can go to Sweetwater and Crutchfield but where's the showroom?

Rob

This isn't the 70's or 80's.

I feel it's like you said, most people listen with ear buds or tiny speakers or a soundbar with their TV. People want to read reviews, buy online and have them shipped direct. I'm getting old, but have yet to meet anyone my age or younger whom even has a receiver, let alone free-standing speakers.

[Robh3606]

This isn't the 70's or 80's.

I feel it's like you said, most people listen with ear buds or tiny speakers or a soundbar with their TV. People want to read reviews, buy online and have them shipped direct. I'm getting old, but have yet to meet anyone my age or younger whom even has a receiver, let alone free-standing speakers.

Hello

I had a number of friends with nice system's back in the day. However as marriage, kids, mortgage and college came knocking most were slowly lost to the inevitable and only 2 kept their systems. One never married the other kept his going. A nice Harmon Kardon set-up with larger Infinities.

His Infinities finally had issues and he got a pair of 590's on sale. Me being a JBL guy he asked me before he purchased and I told him I had a pair to give them a shot. He loves them!

My brother in law just moved and he left me a couple hundred CD's. We have different musical taste so many I didn't have so a welcome addition. I was "wait you or your boys don't want them?" he was nope we all stream and your the only one I know who listens to CD's!

He also had a nice Infinity system. They had fuses so would blow at parties and he got a set of Bose Cubes and never looked back. Needless to say the Infinities kicked the crap out of the cubes.

Priorities change.

Rob

[DerekTheGreat]

Hi Rob.

Priorities do indeed change. I find mine shift from cars to music to the house to video games. I've been through several relationships, college and residences, yet my Firebird has remained at my side for all of it, some twenty years now. I still have the video game systems and games I played in the 80's through today and even have some old notebooks from high school. I still have the first speakers I bought, JBL E90's. (No plans to keep those, looking to sell them, actually.) I'm becoming a step-father to two kids. No plans to sell any of our music or car stuffs. Matter of fact, we recently picked up another bummy truck. Angie calls it, "Lil Red." Plan is to make it reliable so we can road trip it on our honeymoon.

How old is the brother-in-law? The friends? At almost 38, I guess I'm an anomaly.

Also, which Infinities? Years ago, just after I bought my L150A's, I found a set of Column II's. They looked really nice and I thought the down-firing 10" could be neat. Never picked them up, but heard good things about the brand.

[Robh3606]

We are all in our 60's and the Infinities were late 70's early 80's vintage no idea about model numbers. My friend with the Harmon Kardon system had the L100 competitor from Infinity, Same issue as the highs were fused and he had to keep fuses available for parties.

Rob