JBL reviews

JBL ATX-10C Centre Speaker review
Centre Speaker JBL ATX-10C

The design is light, compact center of a series of ATX - very laconic. Diffusers 100 mm from the universal woofers cellulose. Their holders are framed diffuser polymer foams, perhaps - to dampen parasitic sounds basket. Field of small ferrite magnet Tweeter not screened that, when placed on top of the...
JBL ATX-20 Bookshelf speakers review
Bookshelf speakers JBL ATX-20

There are no frills in the design of JBL ATX-20 speaker system - everything is rational. An adequate tweeter is with a small membrane and ferrite magnet. A serious woofer with the diffuser, coated by polymer film, promises not to violate all-honored branded LF-traditions. A lightweight body is made of...
JBL Balboa 10 Bookshelf speakers review
Bookshelf speakers JBL Balboa 10

Like Infinity Systems the legendary JBL is also included into the international Harman Corporation. Maybe, this is the reason why systems of Balboa series look very similar to Infinity Primus? I urge you to wait with conclusions. Indeed, Balboa 10 (by the way, not the famous movie hero Rocky Balboa gave...
JBL Balboa 30 Floor standing speakers review
Floor standing speakers JBL Balboa 30

Balboa 30 is a floor standing speaker system from Balboa series. HF and MF drivers are placed on the separate panel, woofer is below. The diaphragms of LF and MF JBL drivers are traditionally made of cellulose; on the cone of woofer you can see familiar concentric ring swellings. Magnets of the drivers...
JBL Control X Outdoor speakers review
Outdoor speakers JBL Control X

Compared with the model One, Control X is slightly larger, but still undoubtedly belong to the mini-monitors. However, new speakers bestowed the distinctive design, which it clearly distinguished from the older brothers, with a curved front wall and masks through which they can not see the speaker units....
JBL ES20 Bookshelf speakers review
Bookshelf speakers JBL ES20

JBL believes that the era of high-resolution sound has begun and this means the need in speakers, being able to reproduce it. ES series is speaker systems of middle-level Hi-Fi class. And this series can solve the challenge, for which all speakers of this series are equipped with dual tweeter, which...
JBL ES80 Floor standing speakers review
Floor standing speakers JBL ES80

JBL has many different lines of speaker systems for different needs. Sometimes a line has only one model or two-three. However, our model is from the larger, classical Hi-Fi ES family of average (by the standards of JBL) level. This line has nine models and JBL ES 80 is the youngest among them, floor...
JBL HP520 Floor standing speakers review
Floor standing speakers JBL HP520

JBL says that its HP series of loudspeakers is designed to bring many of the features of the company's professional theater and monitor speakers to home systems at affordable prices. The HP520, the larger of the two models currently available, is a floor-standing four-way system with five drivers. Its...
JBL HP82B Bookshelf speakers review
Bookshelf speakers JBL HP82B

JBL HP82B two-way speaker system with bass reflex output on the rear panel. The low-frequency cone head is strictly geometric center front panel (diameter 190 mm), 25 mm hard dome tweeter placed in the upper left corner and is provided with personal protective and decorative lattice. Speakers look good:...
JBL J216 Bookshelf speakers review
Bookshelf speakers JBL J216

The Model J216 is the smallest and least expensive speaker system to bear the JBL name. It is a two-way system based on a newly designed 6-inch woofer that operates in a vented enclosure only 14-3/4 inches high, 10 inches wide, and 9-1/4 inches deep. There is a crossover to a 1-inch soft-dome tweeter...
JBL J820M Bookshelf speakers review
Bookshelf speakers JBL J820M

JBL says that its new J Series of loudspeakers has been designed to provide exceptionally accurate, uncolored, and balanced sound at affordable prices. The line consists of five "bookshelf" speakers and two larger "tower" models, plus a center-channel speaker specifically for home theater applications...
JBL K2 S9800 Floor standing speakers review
Floor standing speakers JBL K2 S9800

JBL K2 S9800 is the result of the ambitious project of the company, which in 2000 wanted to regain its reputation of the best manufacturer of speaker systems. The upper part is given for a horn section - a small horn of super-tweeter perched on sloping top panel and the main horn, serving the lion's...
JBL L100 Century Floor standing speakers review
Floor standing speakers JBL L100 Century

The JBL L100 Century is an unusually styled version of their 4310 control room monitor speaker developed by James B. Lansing Sound Inc. (JBL) for studios in America who wanted an enclosure of modest size. It has now been provided with a ducted port and certain changes in the tweeter, which makes i t...
JBL L110 Bookshelf speakers review
Bookshelf speakers JBL L110

James B. Lansing and his company's successive designs of JBL loudspeakers have occupied a special place in the American audio scene for many years now. So far as the speakers are concerned, their fame has perhaps spread more extensively world-wide in their professional role than m the smaller domestic...
JBL L112 Bookshelf speakers review
Bookshelf speakers JBL L112

The JBL range of professional studio monitor loud speakers has secured a special position in the market worldwide, even though they are generally characterized as possessing the "West Coast" sound. This description, if it means anything, refers to a certain forward presence of sound, with tight bass...
JBL L250 Floor standing speakers review
Floor standing speakers JBL L250

It's impossible not to be impressed by JBL's flagship loudspeaker-even before you hear it. One reason is that unlike most other audio products, the L-250 makes a strong visual statement. Styled as a truncated, asymmetrical pyramid, it stands almost four-and-a-half feet tall, and even with the grille...
JBL LC2 Center Speaker review
Center Speaker JBL LC2

JBL LC2 is a successful combination of two at once several branded technologies and features. We can't but note four-band design - in addition to usual titanium tweeter, in HF range there is also a mylar driver, being installed in a small horn and responsible for ultrahigh frequencies (above 20 kHz)....
JBL LOFT 5.1 5.1 system review
5.1 system JBL LOFT 5.1

Compact and convenient soundbars gradually put inexpensive AV-receivers out of the market, but the demand on 5.1 speaker sets is still strong. This is fair enough: modern TVs and video projectors create a stunningly realistic picture, which requires an adequate audio feedback. At the designing of such...
JBL LS120P Subwoofer review
Subwoofer JBL LS120P

Before us is a top model in the nomenclature of the manufacturer. Sidewall impressive body JBL LS120P made of polished wood, plush dark red hue. Facade is completely closed removable grill cloth on a plastic mesh cage. 12-inch speaker with a diffuser of corporate material PolyPlas mounted on the front...
JBL LS60 Floor standing speakers review
Floor standing speakers JBL LS60

LS series is quite expensive and consists of five models: three stereo pairs (LS40, LS60, LS80), subwoofer and speaker system of the central channel. All speaker systems (except subwoofer, of course) are equipped with similar HF-emitters and differ by the set of LF- and LF/MF-speakers. LS60 is the medium...
JBL LX 2000 Subwoofer review
Subwoofer JBL LX 2000

By design, the subwoofer is perfectly consistent with the acoustics series LX. Ten-speaker cone classic pulp is specially designed for LX 2000. According to his passport, a Class D amplifier delivers 150 watts at rated speed at 0.5% THD. There is a complete set of high-amplitude terminal pair of line...
JBL LX 2001 Bookshelf speakers review
Bookshelf speakers JBL LX 2001

Apparently, there is little to do in representatives of the new series with the expressive "Millenium" number combination in the name and models included in the well-known line LX. However, the high frequencies are still emitted proprietary titanium membrane. And the use of such a wonderful, sonically,...
JBL LX 2003 Floor standing speakers review
Floor standing speakers JBL LX 2003

A two-way LX2003 is the next model in the LX model range after the compact one - 2001. The construction of both systems is almost the same, except the difference between sizes. Heads seem to be the same: woofers with paper diffusers and tweeter with titanium domes. But unlike LX2001, LX 2003 has the...
JBL LX 3 Floor standing speakers review
Floor standing speakers JBL LX 3

The JBL LX 3 is a three-way floor standing speaker system with a bass reflex output on the rear panel. Next to most of the other participants in the test, the speakers look downright tiny - 550x220x275 mm. The front panel is covered with a decorative grille, from under which the edging of the aqua-colored...
JBL LX10 Floor standing speakers review
Floor standing speakers JBL LX10

The JBL LX10 is an American three-way bass-reflex loudspeaker system. Each speaker system is equipped with four drivers: a tweeter with an inch metal dome, a 145-mm midrange driver with a polymer cone and a pair of woofers, each 255 mm in diameter, conical cones of which are also made of polymer. The...
JBL LX6 Floor standing speakers review
Floor standing speakers JBL LX6

If legitimately speak about "American sound", it will be the most appropriate to do it relatively to JBL acoustics, the sound of which differs by a certain singularity. We can judge about the importance of this singularity by high popularity of the company's products. We won't risk confirming that the...
JBL MX1500 Floor standing speakers review
Floor standing speakers JBL MX1500

Minimal "architectural" decorations, three-way construction, quite a light body - this is MX1500 from JBL. This is a big woofer with cellulose diffuser. The membrane of midrange head is produced from pulp too. The last one is located in the isolated muted module and has non-classical "concave" form of...
JBL Northridge E100 Floor standing speakers review
Floor standing speakers JBL Northridge E100

60, 80, 90, 100 ... The bigger number is the greater sizes and drivers of Northridge series systems are. The granted flagship E-100 is a real present to music lovers, who sadly look at graceful ranges of subtle floor speaker systems. A 120-liters body has three branded heads with two-layered cellulose-polymer...
JBL Northridge E30 Bookshelf speakers review
Bookshelf speakers JBL Northridge E30

E30 is one of the shelf models of the updated Northridge line. All the systems of E-series are characterized by great power reserve. So, E30 with nominal power of 70 W is capable to hold 280W electric impact. Diffusers of mid-low-frequency speakers like in all representatives of the modified Northridge...
JBL Northridge E50 Bookshelf speakers review
Bookshelf speakers JBL Northridge E50

JBL Northridge e50 is an unusual participant of our testing. Firstly, this is a complete three-way construction. Secondly, by their sizes they bring us back to those good times when speaker systems (and shelves filled with LPs) take the dominated placement in the interior of the room. And thirdly, being...
JBL Northridge E60 Floor standing speakers review
Floor standing speakers JBL Northridge E60

E60 is a three-way speaker system of Northridge model range. From whatever side you look you immediately feel a fundamental approach: three bands, massive loading made of 20-mm MDF, powerful supports, woofer with light, "rifled" diffuser, huge bass-reflex FreeFlow port... Seemed to be a two-layered faceplate...
JBL Northridge E80 Floor standing speakers review
Floor standing speakers JBL Northridge E80

JBL E80 speaker systems are literally the center of the branded technologies. These are three-way speaker systems, made in the opened-type body. 19-mm (3/4") tweeter with titanium coating, installed in frames of the branded EOS (Elliptical Oblate Spheroidal) horn is used here. This horn was initially...
JBL Northridge E90 Floor standing speakers review
Floor standing speakers JBL Northridge E90

There were no any precedents of such a good three-band system for such money within living memory. All four drivers of the largest participant in our test look extremely seriously, especially a pair of woofers - hurricane! Record high mass of the speakers is caused almost equally by luxurious case made...
JBL S3900 Floor standing speakers review
Floor standing speakers JBL S3900

What is JBL S3900? It is a three-way floor speaker system, structurally repeating the classical speaker systems. Low-frequency range operates two parallel affiliate 10 inch 100FE-12 speakers. Their diffusers are made from cellulose with reinforcement threads of fiberglass; such material seems to be covered...
JBL S412P Floor standing speakers review
Floor standing speakers JBL S412P

The sizes of speaker systems, their mass and the size of the woofer indicate serious intents of the developers of S412P belonging to Studio series. Corrugated membranes of Lf and MF drivers are made of Polyplas material (cellulose plus polymer). The titanium dome of the tweeter is surrounded by a special...
JBL Simply Cinema SCS120 5.1 system review
5.1 system JBL Simply Cinema SCS120

Blame it on Jack-in-the-Box. Why would anyone spend countless hours going grocery shopping and cooking at home when you can get a complete meal of fried petroleum products "in-a-box" just by driving up to a multicolored metal clown head and barking like an angry sea lion? "Not I," said the fly as he...
JBL SP150 Subwoofer review
Subwoofer JBL SP150

The company JBL keeps the branded handwriting even in the budget models that for a subwoofer means an American prowess, muscularity and the scale of sounding. JBL SP-150 has a volumetric, rectangular body made of solid MDF, covered with black matte wood grain film. The edges in its upper part are rounded...
JBL Studio 130 Floor standing speakers review
Floor standing speakers JBL Studio 130

Looking at the exterior of Studio 130 speaker systems teh designers of JBL let you see that even inexpensive system can look fresh and individually. The front part is lined with diagonal lines, on the intersection of which there is the company's logo and in the two formed niches there are drivers, being...
JBL Studio 580 Floor standing speakers review
Floor standing speakers JBL Studio 580

Unusual form of the front panel of JBL Studio 580 speaker system is dictated by a horn design of high-frequency part. Compressional one-inch HF-head differs by the expanded play band and starts to work already from 1500 Hz. Doubled low-frequency part is presented by the branded 6.5-inch heads made of...
JBL Studio L830 Bookshelf speakers review
Bookshelf speakers JBL Studio L830

JBL L830 shelf speaker systems represent Studio L series, which is characterized by the presence of HF speakers. A 19-mm ultrahigh-frequency tweeter with the dome made of Mylar material, which is placed into horn, provides the playing of frequencies up to 40 kHz. A 25-mm tweeter with the dome made of...
JBL Studio Monitor 4307 Floor standing speakers review
Floor standing speakers JBL Studio Monitor 4307

According to JBL, in the design of this pair (as in all modern replicas and new models of the old way) 60-year-old tradition of the famous American company combines with fresh design solutions. One can argue about the authority and authenticity of such a union of time, as well as on how good the real...
JBL Studio Monitor 4319 Floor standing speakers review
Floor standing speakers JBL Studio Monitor 4319

There is no need to present JBL acoustics to those, who earn their bread in record studios. The rest of the audience will need a little help: monitor speakers of this company became a classic of the genre in the arsenal of any sound engineer long ago. Very high demands have always been made to control...
JBL Ti 600 Floor standing speakers review
Floor standing speakers JBL Ti 600

Quite often the production of American company motives to discuss general topics about the essence and efficacy of constructional decisions, using in modern speaker systems (let remember a horn design of high-frequency head in HSL 820 model). Classical, strict in its limit laconism form of researching...
JBL TL260 Floor standing speakers review
Floor standing speakers JBL TL260

Let's start with the fact that JBL TL260 is nothing less than a five-banded acoustics! Its predecessor, L250, could make boast of only four bands, and in the novelty an additional tweeter with expanded up to 40 kHz frequency range went on a pedestal (literally). Generally speaking, the construction with...
JBL TLX 161 Floor standing speakers review
Floor standing speakers JBL TLX 161

JBL TLX 161 is a three-way speaker system of bass reflex type with a port on the back panel. Metalized dome of the tweeter has the diameter of 10mm. The diameters of cone mid- and low-frequency heads are 100mm and 240mm. The diffuser of low-frequency loudspeaker is calculatedly optimized and produced...
JBL TLX 50 Bookshelf speakers review
Bookshelf speakers JBL TLX 50

JBL TLX 50 is a three-way speaker system of bass reflex type; bass reflex port is situated at the back panel of the speaker. The body sizes are one of the hugest (270x280x480 mm - 10.6"x11"x18.9"). This structural feature is properly explicable, because you will find three speakers on the faceplate:...
JBL TLX 600 Bookshelf speakers review
Bookshelf speakers JBL TLX 600

Risking the accusation of obscurantism deserve, talking about their own preferences to the forms speakers admit to sympathizing with the clear faces of a simple box. This is not the personal characteristics of the aesthetic world, the fact that discuss the impact on the quality of the sound image effects...
JBL XTi 20 Bookshelf speakers review
Bookshelf speakers JBL XTi 20

The XTi 20 is installed on non-removable legs. At the same time, we found spikes in the kit ... The panels of our copy are covered with matte plastic, there are options for wood-like exterior finishes. Well proven drivers. The rigidity of the MDF walls is quite sufficient, plus the asymmetrical shape...