Although Harman International, which owns JBL, has a 'specialist' headphone company under its wing (AKC), that hasn't stopped what is probably the world's most famous loudspeaker brand joining the growing number of other speaker makers in adding headphones to its product line-up. Up to now JBL's headphones have seemed rather 'me too' but that has changed, and dramatically so, with the introduction of two new over-the-head models, the S500 and top-of-the range S700 reviewed here, both of which incorporate what JBL refers to as 'LiveStage'. I believe it is the first digital signal processing system [DSP] ever to be fitted to a headphone.
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