Jamo Studio S 803 Bookshelf Speaker Pair Black

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It's kind of a noticeable sound difference when compared to the Monolith Cinema 5 bookshelf speakers I recently picked up. This subreddit is for the budget minded audiophile that wants to grow out of soundbars, boomboxes, mini systems, portable bluetooth, lifestyle speakers, and PC peripheral branded audio solutions.

If you own these speakers and are thinking “dude, you’re wrong, these are great” then I encourage you to find speakers that have a more neutral character to them and give an honest attempt at demoing both side by side. In equal power mode, you'll hear these differences in loudness as they naturally occur between speakers. Legendary jazz drummer Max Roach's 1980s all-percussion album M'Boom's hard hitting dynamics were mighty impressive for a such a small speaker. In my basement game room, where the floor is completely covered, they sound closer to neutral and easier on the ears.You may have seen some of the older receivers, a loudness button, and that’s precisely what it does is it applies the equal-loudness contour curve. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Embodying the spirit of the Jamo brand, the Studio 8 series offers contemporary design, high performance and natural, balanced sound. I really believe your ears adjust to what they hear over time, but I've come away impressed with the imaging and uncolored sound the Monolith's produce. I know after extended listing to the Monolith C5's, going back to the S803 it sounds very colored and somewhat unnatural.

If you have the requisite power in your AV receiver, the dynamics capable of reproducing through the 803 system are phenomenal, phenomenal. I was honestly a fair bit skeptical of Zeos'review but, after even a short time of listening, agree completely with everything he said.If these are the first pair of speakers you hear, you’ll be impressed at how clear and clean the top end is, and how much bass something this small can make. The speaker says that 80 watts per channel are recommended, I'm running on a 75WPC receiver and I feel like they could use a little more punch. Unlike any bookshelf speaker, the S 803 Dolby Atmos® ready speaker delivers incredible stereo sound with a patent-pending connection points atop the cabinet for seamless integration of the S 8 ATM topper to deliver the overhead effect of Dolby Atmos. Aside from that, the high-Q resonance in the midbass at ~100Hz will need to be pulled down with a filter that I am not sure can be remedied with a standard room-correction software/EQ.