This content is a review of the JBL HDI 3600 loudspeakers, focusing on their sound characteristics, performance across various music genres, and suitability for different listening environments. The review emphasizes the importance of using headphones for experiencing binaural recordings and highlights the unique features of the JBL speakers, particularly their waveguide technology.
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welcome back to new record day my name
is ron
now would be a good time if you haven't
already put on a pair of headphones
um this
is a newman k-100
binaural dummy head this was uh
this was sent out uh thanks to
adorama they made this all happen and
i am really excited to see what you guys think
think
um when it comes to a binaural recording
what we're trying to do is get the sound
of the room and we're trying to create
real space so inside the ears
of this dummy head
are microphones right and so
what we're hoping to achieve is
a genuine sense of
distance and space and everything that
surrounds the head
and so it's really important
to maximize the effect of this to be
wearing headphones so i would encourage
you to do so
when i am mixing down and editing everything
everything
i use two headphones and i'll have them
linked down below they are affiliate links
links
uh just a heads up um the
meze classic 99 classics
or the grado sr 80es
so if you want to know exactly what i'm
hearing when i
am playing these back and listening to
these sound clips those are the
headphones that i use
and i like them quite a bit the speakers
we're going to be checking out today
are the jbl hdi 3600's
these were sent out by jbl so thank you
for doing that jbl we appreciate it
they are four standing loudspeakers two
and a half way
we'll cover the specs in a minute but
they are four thousand bucks
and as you can see they are using
a waveguide and more on that in a few
the gear that we're going to be checking
out today
is starting with my
source would be the annuous
zenith and then from there i'm running
a usb cable that was sent out by db
audio labs
going into the back of the hegel
h390 if you haven't
watched that podcast that i just
released about
hegel amplifiers i would encourage you
to do that you'll probably learn a
couple of things that are pretty
interesting that make their
amplifiers pretty unique and so this is
a pretty simple little rig we have the
annual zenith
going into the hegel and then from the
hegel i have
um reality cables i have the reality cables
cables
coming in from the wall and they're long
runs like 20 feet
and then i just cut little holes in my
carpet where i
you know fed them through the carpet and
that's that
so with sound clips with commentary um
it's my job to help you understand what i'm
i'm
actually hearing in the room and this is what
what
i feel makes sound clips
sound clips a little more reasonable to
try to tackle
i don't expect you to know based on what
we're going to talk his name is randy
and i'll tell you why in a minute
based on what randy is hearing
i don't expect you to fully understand
everything that you would ever need to
know about how these speakers sound
hogwash no way not not
a chance and so it is my job
to help you understand what i'm hearing
and i've spent enough time
with the hdi's i don't need to be
sitting in the driver's seat to do so
enough blabbering the reason why this is
named randy
not for because of the cheap audio man
even though
cheap audio man is awesome um well it's
a newman
it's a newman microphone so any randy
newman fans out there
i think he's one of the best so all right
right
sound clips are provided by uh epidemic sound
sound
and that is a music service that i
subscribe to so i pay
a monthly fee for the sound clips and
for the ability to use
all this royalty-free music the sound
clips are indeed a little bit cheesy in
my opinion i wish
that i had i wish i had a little bit
i wish i had music that was a bit more
likable but it does the job and i think
that i have a new playlist that will
you know it'll be kind of cool to check
these out
now if you want this exact playlist
and you want the ability to download all
of these songs and even play them back
on your system you can do so
that is a perk for becoming a patron
here at new record day
i know the first comments are going to
be hey man can you just give us a track list
list
no no i mean i can but i'm not going to because
because
i want to give a benefit to my patrons
and that benefit
is you can have all the songs you can
even download them and get their track
names and their artists and you can
explore them if you like them
i'm not going to just tell you what the
track list is and i'm not doing that to
be a jerk
i'm doing it because well i do this
for a living and i gotta figure out ways to
to
give a benefit to the patrons that make
sense for them
and reward them for supporting my channel
channel
and that's why i'm doing it i will tell
you that if you are dying to know
the track lists and the names you can
just use shazam on your phone
and it will tell you that information
enough blabbering
jbl hdi 3600s
let's go ahead and run through the specs
as i said earlier they are four thousand dollars
dollars
they are a two and a half way design
they have a one inch
horn loaded high frequency compression
driver with hdi
or high definition imaging waveguide technology
technology
for smooth uniform response across
a wide listening area the woofers being used
used
are three six and a half inch advanced
aluminum matrix woofers with cast frames
for punchy mid-range
and base the cabinet is a curved cabinet
constructed of three-quarter inch thick
mdf and heavily braced to dampen
internal vibrations
it is a base reflex design with dual
rear firing ports
frequency response from jbl is
38 hertz to 30 000 hertz i've already
measured these and i'll talk about this
in the final review which i'm hoping to
have out
maybe even by the end of this week
sensitivity is 90 db
yeah that's about it five-way binding posts
posts
magnetic grills oh furniture grade
walnut uh wood veneers with satin finish
they do look really nice 61 pounds each
those are the jbl hdi 3600 so
fasten your seat belt my friends let's
go ahead
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here's what i think i think
we have a straight shooter on our hands
and what i mean by that is
even though this is a very stripped down
track and even though
i'm saying this because i've heard a lot
of tracks on these so i'm gonna i'm
gonna just declare these right out of
the gate as
these are a pretty behaved sounding loudspeaker
loudspeaker
in terms of their overall
tone characteristics i don't find these
to be
tilted in one way or the other i
think that they actually sound very balanced
balanced
and so this is an easy celebration
one of the things that i
really like about these and i'm going to
let the cat out of the bag
early so we can start talking about it is
is
they do have wave guides right and so
if you're new to my channel
or if you don't know what a wave guide
is it's this guy right here
where the tweeter is we have a a compression
compression
a compression driver and a waveguide
and the purpose of this waveguide
is to control directivity so it is
controlling the direction in which
we are funneling the frequencies i think
i just popped up my speaker cables
one moment all right well that was fun okay
okay
let's not do that again so what i was
going to say is one thing that i like
about these and i noticed it
right away is besides the fact that we
have what i'm calling a straight shooter
on our hands
and you know just a balanced
sound coming out of these loudspeakers
it's not tilted in one direction or the other
other
is sometimes with a waveguide this is
what you hear and it's really
distracting because you're just like
that doesn't sound natural at all that
sounds terrible
and with these
minus a couple of things we're going to
be talking about
i don't find myself listening to
this at all i mean they did a good job with
with
giving us controlled directivity without
the consequence of
hearing a wave guide calling attention
to itself so
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i think one of the key words that i've been
been
i've been finding myself thinking about
when i've been listening to the 3600s
is presence there's a
there's a sense of presence
that you hear with a really
great horn speaker or a speaker with a
waveguide compression driver
they do they do that and
it's it's great in the sense that what i
feel that jbl has done is they've given
us that
presence but they also have this
they they have this tame enough to where
that presence doesn't overwhelm you
and so when you have some stuff
upper mid-range specifically upper mid-range
mid-range
and beyond it doesn't get to the point
where it's like
i'm done i can't listen to this
loudspeaker anymore it's just
too much detail retrieval too much stuff
going on
too much stuff it sounds too forward
i don't i don't hear that in these and so
so
again going back to my original comments
of this is a very balanced
sounding loudspeaker that also includes
this sense of
presence in the room it's a sound
and i think a lot of audiophiles hi-fi enthusiasts
