Ever discover cheapo speakers actually sound...

By the way, though I may be critical at times, I am the type of person that likes to enjoy things and make the best of life. When I visit friend's homes I don't have thoughts of how terrible their systems are in comparison to my system. I always see the positive, and I honestly enjoy the sound coming out of their setup. I am fully aware of the deficiencies, but I choose to focus on the highlights. Could that be happening with my temorary speakers, could I be ignoring the negatives.
The merlins are leaps and bounds better, an a/b test would reveal that dramatically, but I find my aural registering perception adapting to the new sound. Maybe I am lucky.
In the end I still know what I like and that is the omni directional sound you get with mbl, it is for me the most thrilling experience.

Thanks for the inputs.
When I first turned on the inexpensive jbl's, they sounded horrible, but after some time improved tremendously?
Did they need break in, or is my hearing adapting to the new sound, I know they don't compare to my main speakers: merlin. But they sound better than they should for the price point.
Of course my system is way up there in the source and amp areas, but I am quite surprised.
Can anyone explain why at first they sounded bad and then later on much better?

Thank you Chadnliz, Thorman, Ojgalli, Almarg, Mapman, Rockvirgo, Shadorne, Onhwy61, Ejlif.
Ejlif thanks for the post, you are right, though Shadorne was in earnest in contributing. In my earlier threads I have expressed my satisfaction with the merlins, in fact I mentioned that I haven't heard any showroom in NYC that leaves me wanting to change save for the mbl's.
What I have noticed is the different speaker executions present different flavors. I used to like the magnepans, dynaudio, piegas, kharmas, jm labs/focal, soundlabs etc. I still like them but I prefer what the mbls and bolzanos do, it's a different presentation. My merlin setup is hard to beat, I doubt I will ever sell them, and I like them discoupled. I believe that decoupling them makes them sound cleaner, I don't want my floor resonating.
By the way these jbls cabinets resonate like crazy(light and thin boxes), they have alot of grunge on top compared to the merlins but that's expected.
I have decided to build my next speakers with help from professionals. Yes I am getting help, my girlfriend says I need it, bless her little soul, someone needs a hug.
Ok. My only contribution will be the cabinet design and the building of it and yes you guessed it right if you were going to ask if leadshot will be in there, but how much, even I don't know. My intention will be to make the cabinet as quiet as possible. And I will decouple them from the room as well. Any suggestions?

Mapman,
Small, 11' X 15', heavily damped on all surfaces: ceiling all four walls, very quiet room.
But I agree that the room is too small!
I may do a trial with the ohms.

Sns, yes I do and prefer things that way.
But I still recognize when things are just awful or not good enough. I must have certain priorities that I don't fully understand.
I'm sure others agree when I say we all have different priorities. That probably is part of our preferences in flavor of sound.
But why do showrooms fall short if that is the case. I remember enjoying most setups untill I brought my system up and got to hear the mbl's, which I should probably revisit.

Sns,
Thanks for the heads up. I don't plan on moving away from the merlins. I just want to try building speakers, but I figured I should do something that will resemble a speaker that I liked meaning the bolzanos.
I plan on going all atma-sphere just for the sake of getting the merlins to sing their best.
By the way I will consider your bam tweek.