
JBL Tour One M3
Comfortable, long-lasting and packed with features — but its listeners can't agree on how it sounds, and a 2026 firmware update moved the target mid-argument.
4 reviews
Loudspeakers and consumer wireless headphones
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JBL is an American audio manufacturer headquartered in Los Angeles, founded in 1946 by loudspeaker engineer James Bullough Lansing and a subsidiary of Harman International since 1969. It spans consumer, professional and cinema audio — studio monitors and touring PA at one end, portable Bluetooth speakers and noise-cancelling headphones at the other — and its headphone tunings draw on parent company Harman's listener-preference research.

Comfortable, long-lasting and packed with features — but its listeners can't agree on how it sounds, and a 2026 firmware update moved the target mid-argument.

A shoebox-sized L100 with JBL's old swagger — punchy, loud and fun to most ears, coloured and uneven to the measurement crowd.

Magazines call it the best little monitor for the money; the lab measurements beg to differ — and owners side with both.

A default first studio monitor: wide, even dispersion and real bass for a 5-inch box, with a hiss people either ignore or can't.
Prices in USD, recorded when each review was updated; speaker prices are for a pair.