Choice: Avantgarde Duo Omega or JBL K2 s9800



Am now able to get both of these speakers at abt the same price albeit both in demo condition.

Am now using a pair of Vandersteen 2CE Sig2 and Harbeth M30 and really wanting to try the other end of the spectrum. Heard the Quad ESL which may not be the ones for me where now decide to go the way of the horns.

A/B audition is not possible where i am attracted to JBL K2 s9800 primarily becos its (correct me if i m wrong) a mix of HORN and monitor (best of both worlds?) and also being the 2nd highest in teh line of JBL. Wld tis not make a more sound/safe investment? Same time not really sure of its dynamics as compared to the avantgarde ....

i want to stay with my BAT pre/power (vk32/vk55) ....

any comments welcomed!!!
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Showing 1 response by mechans

That K2 is the product of hundreds of devoted passionate JBL lovers and live in a time when JBL defined Hi End. I have only dreamed of listening to the K2 the design alone looks loud and powerful .
The all horn Avante Garde is an aquired taste with active bass. I never enjoyed or became enraptured by integration of a shitty bash amp or those nasty car vbration amps made flat and Shake you with what I imagine an Elephant throwing fire F***s after eating a field of skunk cabbage would be.
No honestly all silliness aside the K2 is a monumental work. The avant Garde a precision instrument. I like the historical feature of the K@. It would be likw owning an original Hartesfield NOS preserved from its first year of manufacture 1957?