An audiophile dilemma

To follow-up Onhwy61's comment on JBL/Harmon, I always wondered why some of their product such as the Infinity Prelude Compositions (which I own) didn't do better in the Audiophile market. Robert Harley gave them a great review while driving them with the Cary CAD 300B SEI with great success. I also own that same Cary 300B and agree with Harley's review. A 96db speaker, 6 Ohm nominal impedance with a self powered sub built in that went down to 25Hz. Robert Harley bought the review pair. Great HT as well as 2 channel, cost about 3 grand. I was surprised that more SET folks did not jump on these speakers. My only complaint was that I would have preferred an 8 ohm impedance, not that I have any real problems as is.

Chris,

My brother auditioned speakers in Swiss (Geneva) audio store. Sales guy presented smaller speakers first and my brother liked them a lot. Then he switched to more expensive larger speakers and my brother liked them even more to finally play the largest, most expensive speakers of this line that sounded absolutely excellent. They took break and talked for a while about prices and options. Seeing hesitation salesman offered one more audition of not very expensive but a "gem" of a speaker. My brother liked it as much as the last big speaker. "That was the first speaker you heard" salesman said. My brother left store with pair of those.

The OP doesn't say that the stage monitors are every bit as good as some expensive audiophile speaker. Instead he talks about being happy with the stage monitors. His question is whether the audiophile oriented products are better than the JBLs. Related to that question is whether everyone really needs all the speed, low resonance, detail and resolution offered by modern loudspeakers. It's not like everybody wants a 600HP car.

Kajinki - what a great story! Did his customer right and made a righteous sale.

What's the dilemma?
If the JBLs sound better to you and they are cheaper, isn't that a good thing?