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The number denotes the approximate size of the bass/mid driver in inches. The LP series comes in two variants, the LP6 and the LP8. It’s a real achievement to do it to a pinchingly tight price point, which is exactly what the designers of the most inexpensive monitors are trying to do. It’s not hard to make something great with an unlimited budget. When it’s done correctly it’s a demonstration of discipline and skill in the design process. I’ll spare you the details, it was cut for a reason, but the thrust of it was to introduce the idea of fitness for purpose and to point out that something being “good enough” isn’t a slur, it’s not even a criticism.
The first draft of this article started with a comparison between the two bicycles I own. Unfortunately, I don’t have a pair of JBLs to compare the Kalis with but I remember them well.
I didn’t know it at the time but when I spoke to the guys at Kali Audio it turns out that members of the team behind Project Lone Pine worked on the JBL 306P MkII, in a sense the Kali LP6 is the Mark 3 version, though I’m sure JBL won’t agree if they do a new version of the MkII. Having spent too long around cheap monitors which sound, well… cheap, I was astonished that you could get such quality at that price point. They really were a product which made me reconsider exactly what you should be expecting to get for your money at the affordable end of the market. When I looked at these inexpensive two-way monitors I was very surprised by exactly how good they were and how little they cost. I first came across the Kali Project Lone Pine monitors around the same time as I tested the JBL 306P MkII monitors.
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