JBL 104-BT Compact Desktop Reference Monitors review: great, but not for their intended purpose
JBL 104-BT: Two-minute review (Image credit: Future / James Holland) The JBL 104-BT are great speakers if you get them for the right reason. If you’re looking for the best computer speakers for general use, you’ll be very happy with these, thanks to a warm-leaning yet full frequency range that lends itself well to music listening as well as gaming and streaming (as long as you don’t need any real sub-bass). They’re not quite as immersive as the best gaming headsets , but they’re more than immersive enough. However, reference monitors they are not. If you’re trying to put together a home studio, you want monitors that give you an accurate representation of what you’re working on. If you have speakers that have somewhat of a boost in the low-mids as these do, then when you go to listen to your music on other speakers or headphones, you’ll realize that you compensated for that boosted area and have a track that’s lacking in that same frequency range. Keep that in mind when g...