Jbl K2 S9900

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Last Sunday I had the good fortune to pick up a pair of JBL K2 S9900 loudspeakers. It was a six hour round trip for me and a six hour round trip for the dealer who met me half way between SF and LA in SLO (look it up). I heard these at the California Audio Show in the SF Bay Area earlier in the summer, along with lots of other amazing speakers, including Revel Ultima2 Salons, Salks, Magicos, and more.

In the end, the K2 s were the ones I couldn't get out of my mind. I had a few obstacles to overcome, like potential competing buyers, how to pay for them, how to transport them, and even how to get them into the house, but it all worked out eventually.

To say I'm in bliss would be an understatement. Of course, now the gear I have feeding them looks long in the tooth. Most of it is a decade or more older and clearly not up to snuff, though it all sounds better than it ever did before.

So now I'm thinking of stereo preamps, CD players, gosh maybe even a TT.

I should never leave the house especially if an audition is on the agenda.