JL-350, Listening In
We had the chance to listen to this Mustang at CES. Manville Smith was kind enough to demo the system for us. We went through several tracks, including Dire Straits' "You and Your Friend," from the On Every Street album; Herb Alpert's "Rotation," from Rise, available through the Shout Factory label (re-mastered in 2007, originally released in 1979); Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band's "Cut N' Run", from The Phat Pack album on Immergent; and Techmaster PEB's "DSTM 2," from It Came from Outer Bass II, on Newtown Records (1993). Listening to these cuts after having spent some time listening to a high-end OE setup in a new car immediately before was like going from computer speakers to an expensive home audio system. Night and day. And "Cut N' Run" was a revelation, both as a musical composition and a demo track for highlighting JL Audio's amazing reproduction capabilities. Take the above list as a recommendation for auditioning your own car audio system. -Ben Oh