JBL SYNTHESIS HDI-3600 STEREO LOUDSPEAKERS

JBL is one of the USA’s largest loudspeaker manufacturers, building thousands of products across the domestic hi-fi, commercial audio and professional sound fields. Its ‘HDI’ models herald a new direction in speaker design for the high-end domestic Synthesis range, especially externally, with the HDI models offering new finishes, and cabinets whose only flat surfaces are their tops and bottoms. Internally, all the models include many of JBL’s tried-and-tested technologies, including high-frequency compression drivers, HDI waveguides and Advanced Aluminium Matrix cone drivers.

Equipment

Unlike many of JBL’s professional speakers, and most of the ‘hi-fi’ versions of its professional monitors (which even their loving owners would be pressed to describe as ‘décor-friendly’), the JBL Synthesis HDI models have been designed to be easy on the eye, not least because in addition to being used for hi-fi stereo, JBL intends that the speakers in the range can also be used in multi-channel home theatre applications — there’s a centre-channel model (HDI-4500) and a powered subwoofer (HDI-1200) in the range, as well