Muscular Power, Stellar Build Quality, and Freewheeling Fun: The L52 Classic Bookshelf Speakers Are Always Ready To Rock
The JBL L52 Classic Bookshelf Speakers are full-range beauties that build on the company’s award-winning legacy of class-leading performance and lively, dynamic sound. Designed in JBL’s world-famous facility in Northridge, California, and offering the type of build quality that has made the brand legendary, the L52 features JBL’s advanced acoustic technologies and signature retro-inspired style.
To let you not just hear—but also feel—the potent midrange and bass, a 5.25-inch Pure Pulp cone woofer delivers low-frequency specs down to 47 hertz. To handle music’s vivid, subtle details, JBL engineers mated a ¾-inch, titanium dome tweeter to an acoustic lens waveguide. A front port and adjustable high-frequency control round out the L52’s outstanding internal features.
Whether used as a standmount or a bookshelf speaker, the L52 Classic delivers a remarkably wide, room-filling soundstage. Bass notes are tight, responsive, and charged with a grab-you-by-the-collar energy that would be impressive for speakers twice this size.
After you have dialed in your preferences with the HF control, musical details sound authoritative, authentic, and tailored to your space. And thanks to the L52’s crossover arrays, vocals and complex instrumental passages feel measured and complete.
The two-way L52s deliver performance similar to that of their acclaimed “big brother,” the L82 Classic, but they offer a slightly smaller footprint, making them easy to position. Plus, a genuine walnut wood veneer and your choice of three colors for the Quadrex foam grilles mean that these gorgeous speakers will enhance any listening space.
Like all Music Direct products, the L52 speakers come with the 100% Music Direct Satisfaction Guarantee.
"We listen to Nirvana's Nevermind and the L52 Classic [speakers] sound right at home. They're happy to charge along full-throttle, delivering 'Come As You Are' with real verve. There's a good amount of attack and enough ability to organize the song's various musical elements into a cohesive and musical whole. The sound is fun, and can even be thrilling when the music demands. Even the bass performance is pleasing, sounding more powerful and punchy than the speaker's compact dimensions suggest.... While the appeal for many will be the retro vibe, there's more than enough ability in the L52 Classic to still satisfy in the long term."
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