Nothing like "Pure Direct" in the manual ..
Also the power is plenty, but for the speakers to shine and have "presence" i need to put a lot of power in them. Again, i am comparing to close-field monitors.
Previously i had a pair of cheap ( 250$ ) Chinese copies of B&W 683. Pieces of garbage. No tone, no presence, no nothing. Just big boxes that looked nice.
As i have somehow not mentioned this until now : I use 24/96 flac and blu-ray concerts as audio source via the PC.
I can tell you where i felt the difference the most.
Pink Floyd - High Hopes 24/96 japan disk, ripped to FLAC. These have the proper dynamic range ( no loudness wars ).
I set the level to a comfortable level on both systems. The beginning piano part being at the same level ( ear measurement ) on the Klipsch and JBL. When the voice comes on, with the JBL`s it feels that he`s in the same room, in front of me. With the Klipsch i have to increase the volume by 20-30 % to get the same effect disturbing all neighbors.
Is there such a thing as listening to 50% volume for 100 hours to "break-in" the speakers?