Great Upgrade from the JBL 9.1
I've had the 9.1 for 4 years (so basically when you amortize the cost of it was less than $1 a day for using it) and really enjoyed it and thought it was time to upgrade after reading some of the reviews of this system. Bottom line; is it worth the upgrade? Definitely yes. Basically the surround is much more expansive and sophisticated. While the 9.1 had the rear surrounds sort of in your face in terms of volume the upgrade has them much more subtle because of all the extra speakers in the front The rear is just now compliment the soundstage rather than pushing it. So at first when you set it up and listen you'll think that the rears are very much underpowered but they aren't especially when you have a good atmos source where when they really shines with overhead effects and behind your effects being much more noticeable. Also the increase in the size of the subwoofer enables you to have incredible bass if you want the volume really loud but for me it's more important to have the base come through at lower volumes which this does and which I wasn't able to get on the 9.1. Always add to pump up the volume on that one which made it too loud for the rest of the house. Overall I'm extremely happy that I did this and with my 100-inch Hisense in my 16x6 theater room it's like being at the movies. and after several more days of listening to this I'm not really appreciating the expanded sound stage compared to the 9.2. Read more











