Jbl XE Series 1991 Catalog

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- XE SERIES LOUDSPEAKER SYSTEMS

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THERE ARE MANY TYPES
OF MUSIC.

BUT ONLY ONE SPEAKER
FOR MUSICIANS.

From rock concerts to great opera, from Bruce Springsteen
on tour to the Royal Danish Theater in Copenhagen -
while the music may be different, it is a universal
language. And musicians around the world rely on one
translator more than any other; JBL speakers

To the musician, speakers are a critical part of their
an. After all, this is how audiences hear them live, how
their fans best appreciate them. They want a speaker with
clean, powerful, effortless sound for popular music, and
one capable of reproducing every nuance and detail with
classical and acoustical music. More musicians use JBL
speakers to give their audiences the live performances
they deserve.

The process continues in the home, with recorded
music on cassette and compact discs. 80 back in the
studio. musicians and recording engineers insist on the
most accurate monitor loudspeakers. These monitors must
relentlessly approach the musical truth by recreating the
dynamics and transients of the original music. From
Hollywood to Abbey Road, 7 out of 10 recording studios
use JBLbuilt monitors.

JBL is the musicians choice for live music. And the
recording engineers choice for studio monitoring JBL
speakers have no musical preference. From new wave to
new age, rock to opera, jazz to countw, classical to big
band, JBL speakers play music only one way - the way it
was meant to be heard by the people who created it. Now
if a JBL speaker can do all this, it should be the right
speaker for the most important venue of all: your living
room. The new XE series makes it easier than ever to bring
the performance home.

THE XE SERIES:
JBL ALL THE WAY.

Naturally, it takes years to learn how to do all music the
right way. In fact, it takes about 40 to develop the
engineering, materials and technical expertise necessary.

Thats how long JBL has supplied the performing
arts, not to mention recording studios and high end home
systems. The new JBL XE series speakers are the
embodiment of even/thing JBL has learned in 40 years of
innovation and manufacturing. XE is simply the most
quality and performance available in its size and price
range. No other speaker company can approach it,
because no other company has JBLs credentials or
experience.

DRIVERS ARE THE SECRET.

In principle there are two ways to build a loudspeaker. And
they both start with drivers - woofers, tweeters and
midranges - because these are the electroacoustic
components that actually produce the sound. The first
approach is most common - take drivers with unmatched.
raggedly uneven frequency response and compensate
with a complicated internal electrical network or crossover

The other way is to use better performing drivers to
begin with, and smoothly integrate them with a purist
crossover network made from fewer, higher-grade parts.
Unfortunately, in the affordable price ranges a speaker
designers choice is dictated by economics more than
acoustics. Which means most speaker companies are
forced to go with choice number one.

JBL is the exception, because of one fundamental
advantage: JBL builds its critical speaker components
itself, from the best materials available and with total
control over the process. Because they match to begin
with, XE drivers approach smooth, linear effortless sound
with minimal crossover interaction.