[Jack in Wilmington]

Originally Posted by Formerly YB-2

Grand-daughter headed off to college in the fall. Am thinking a decent set of powered speakers for her dorm room would be a nice graduation gift. The LS50s look good and get great reviews, but I'm thinking that may be too much in size in these days of 'personal' electronics. Plus, am wondering how much time kids spend in their dorm rooms. Am sure it is quite different from 50yr ago when I was there with a reciever, TT & a pair of large Advents. These small JBLs get a couple of good reviews and seem to fit the bill as a good place to start. Not much $$ and can always upgrade. Anyone heard them or tried anything similar?
https://www.jbl.com/studio-monitors/J104SET-US.html

I remember the days when we would lug around Jensen speakers and hook up to the guy down the hall who had a nice Marantz receiver and Garrard TT. Then I got an Ampex cassette player and you didn't have to worry about dozing off and getting up to turn the LP over.