Probably not "never broken in" but you probably "warmed" to how they sound, started noticing more etc. I find that sometimes even small/crappy speakers bring out something unexpected - such as my computer speakers which are 3.5" (requirements: one power switch/volume control knob which rules out most even slightly-larger actual studio monitors).
I've not heard the L7s but those look like things from before they kinda went downhill/where they are now (can you even buy speakers like this from JBL anymore)?
BIC - I'm familiar with that brand from the Parts Express catalog (great outfit). I've not heard them but they seem reasonably-spec'd esp for the price range (low). My rough read would be they probably sound as good as things 4x the price but with a brand name (e.g. Polk).
Music is the best and if your system makes it happen it's obviously working.
(I have a secondary system with Polk monitor 5s built 1985, Yamaha - talk about punching above the price point - 80WPC integrated, and a Yamaha CD. Some stuff simply sounds better on this system than the main one.)
(I bring up main system because I am TOTALLY a poor-man's audiophile. I've got a few bucks more in my setup than you, but not by orders of magnitude - which these guys happily spend. Because they can hear the difference when you pay $100/ft of cable. So first it's Klipsch* - blasphemy! - RP8000Fs, Adcom GFA545 amp, Vincent hybrid solid-state/tube preamp, Martin-Logan powered sub, Pioneer DVD drive, M-Audio Super-DAC 24-96 - this was $200 like 15 years ago, and I'd put it up against pretty much anything "hi-fi" costing 10 grand or whatnot - then in vinyl land 1210s/Rane Empath/Ortofon Concorde Elites - mmmm.)
u/335K whatchu runnin'?
*Edit: I recently had an encounter with an audiophile snob - when I said I've heard a lot of systems and tbh mine is right there with the top 2 or 3 - MAX! - I've heard in shops - he said "well it depends on the shop" then proceeded to bore me with a huge story about how he likes ListenUp and blah blah blah. I eventually just wandered off mid-sentence. I am here to assure you, I auditioned a set of the B&W Nautilus speakers - I want to say $20k/pr at the time - they were not the top of line $50k ones - in Phoenix and they were like an obviously-much-huger-but-same-wet-teabag-sound that NoAudiophile (linked in other comment) calls them out for in his reviews.
Probably not "never broken in" but you probably "warmed" to how they sound, started noticing more etc. I find that sometimes even small/crappy speakers bring out something unexpected - such as my computer speakers which are 3.5" (requirements: one power switch/volume control knob which rules out most even slightly-larger actual studio monitors).
I've not heard the L7s but those look like things from before they kinda went downhill/where they are now (can you even buy speakers like this from JBL anymore)?
BIC - I'm familiar with that brand from the Parts Express catalog (great outfit). I've not heard them but they seem reasonably-spec'd esp for the price range (low). My rough read would be they probably sound as good as things 4x the price but with a brand name (e.g. Polk).
Music is the best and if your system makes it happen it's obviously working.
(I have a secondary system with Polk monitor 5s built 1985, Yamaha - talk about punching above the price point - 80WPC integrated, and a Yamaha CD. Some stuff simply sounds better on this system than the main one.)
(I bring up main system because I am TOTALLY a poor-man's audiophile. I've got a few bucks more in my setup than you, but not by orders of magnitude - which these guys happily spend. Because they can hear the difference when you pay $100/ft of cable. So first it's Klipsch* - blasphemy! - RP8000Fs, Adcom GFA545 amp, Vincent hybrid solid-state/tube preamp, Martin-Logan powered sub, Pioneer DVD drive, M-Audio Super-DAC 24-96 - this was $200 like 15 years ago, and I'd put it up against pretty much anything "hi-fi" costing 10 grand or whatnot - then in vinyl land 1210s/Rane Empath/Ortofon Concorde Elites - mmmm.)
u/335K whatchu runnin'?
*Edit: I recently had an encounter with an audiophile snob - when I said I've heard a lot of systems and tbh mine is right there with the top 2 or 3 - MAX! - I've heard in shops - he said "well it depends on the shop" then proceeded to bore me with a huge story about how he likes ListenUp and blah blah blah. I eventually just wandered off mid-sentence. I am here to assure you, I auditioned a set of the B&W Nautilus speakers - I want to say $20k/pr at the time - they were not the top of line $50k ones - in Phoenix and they were like an obviously-much-huger-but-same-wet-teabag-sound that NoAudiophile (linked in other comment) calls them out for in his reviews.
Probably not "never broken in" but you probably "warmed" to how they sound, started noticing more etc. I find that sometimes even small/crappy speakers bring out something unexpected - such as my computer speakers which are 3.5" (requirements: one power switch/volume control knob which rules out most even slightly-larger actual studio monitors).
I've not heard the L7s but those look like things from before they kinda went downhill/where they are now (can you even buy speakers like this from JBL anymore)?
BIC - I'm familiar with that brand from the Parts Express catalog (great outfit). I've not heard them but they seem reasonably-spec'd esp for the price range (low). My rough read would be they probably sound as good as things 4x the price but with a brand name (e.g. Polk).
Music is the best and if your system makes it happen it's obviously working.
(I have a secondary system with Polk monitor 5s built 1985, Yamaha - talk about punching above the price point - 80WPC integrated, and a Yamaha CD. Some stuff simply sounds better on this system than the main one.)
(I bring up main system because I am TOTALLY a poor-man's audiophile. I've got a few bucks more in my setup than you, but not by orders of magnitude - which these guys happily spend. Because they can hear the difference when you pay $100/ft of cable. So first it's Klipsch - blasphemy! - RP8000Fs, Adcom GFA545 amp, Vincent hybrid solid-state/tube preamp, Martin-Logan powered sub, Pioneer DVD drive, M-Audio Super-DAC 24-96 - this was $200 like 15 years ago, and I'd put it up against pretty much anything "hi-fi" costing 10 grand or whatnot - then in vinyl land 1210s/Rane Empath/Ortofon Concorde Elites - mmmm.)
u/335K whatchu runnin'?