Mini reviews

Web soundtech.co.uk Gear Wireless monitors

The original JBL 104 monitors are, to our ears, one of the best compact – and cheap – studio monitoring solutions you can buy; hidden gems that you can pick up for a song and an ideal set of secondary monitors for any recording setup. The 104 BTs then, should be even better, as they are simply the original sans wires. Yes the BTs are – you guessed it – Bluetooth versions of the original 104s, so you get the same lovely compact, oval design and largely the same impressive sound. This is pretty accurate and vibey given the size, and we’ve had the luxury of lining them up against many a more expensive pair of studio monitors, only for them to surprise us not just with that big sound, but one that is pretty deep and accurate too.

There are negatives with the Bluetooth format, in that you’ll get some latency between hitting a note while recording and then hearing it back through your speaker system. So for realtime recording, you’ll want the wired versions – and these still come very highly recommended. If you simply need wireless though, these are some of the best-sounding of that format.

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