JBL Floor standing speakers reviews

JBL Balboa 30 Floor standing speakers
JBL Balboa 30 Floor standing speakers

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 ES80 Floor standing speakers
JBL ES80 Floor standing speakers

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
JBL HP520 Floor standing speakers

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 K2 S9800 Floor standing speakers
JBL K2 S9800 Floor standing speakers

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
JBL L100 Century Floor standing speakers

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 L250 Floor standing speakers
JBL L250 Floor standing speakers

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 LS60 Floor standing speakers
JBL LS60 Floor standing speakers

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 2003 Floor standing speakers
JBL LX 2003 Floor standing speakers

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
JBL LX 3 Floor standing speakers

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
JBL LX10 Floor standing speakers

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
JBL LX6 Floor standing speakers

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
JBL MX1500 Floor standing speakers

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
JBL Northridge E100 Floor standing speakers

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 E60 Floor standing speakers
JBL Northridge E60 Floor standing speakers

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
JBL Northridge E80 Floor standing speakers

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
JBL Northridge E90 Floor standing speakers

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
JBL S3900 Floor standing speakers

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
JBL S412P Floor standing speakers

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 Studio 130 Floor standing speakers
JBL Studio 130 Floor standing speakers

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
JBL Studio 580 Floor standing speakers

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 Monitor 4307 Floor standing speakers
JBL Studio Monitor 4307 Floor standing speakers

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
JBL Studio Monitor 4319 Floor standing speakers

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
JBL Ti 600 Floor standing speakers

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
JBL TL260 Floor standing speakers

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
JBL TLX 161 Floor standing speakers

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...