HIGH-DEFINITION Audio with Professional Credentials

THAT MOVIE SURPRISE THAT SCATTERED YOUR POPCORN?

Chances are, the JBL team had something to do with it. With the hyperrealistic sound you hear in the majority of THX,® Dolby® and DTS® theaters worldwide. With the mixing and mastering of vast numbers of music recordings and soundtracks. With the way audio professionals listen to sound at work. Now, the high-definition ES Series brings all that JBL expertise to your home.

HIGH-DEFINITION AUDIO WITH PROFESSIONAL CREDENTIALS.

FROM MOTION PICTURE SOUND

TO HI-FI TO HIGH-DEFINITION AUDIO: A BRIEF JBL HISTORY.

NYLON

STOCKINGS,

FILM NOIR,

THE DAWN

OF AUDIO.

James B. Lansing, who led the team that first brought sound to movies, strikes out on his own, founding JBL, Inc. Among the company’s first products is a high-frequency transducer that’s still being used – unchanged, after more than 60 years – by audio professionals.

BLUE SUEDE SHOES, MCCARTHY, THE ELECTRIC

GUITAR. The JBL brand establishes itself as the clear leader in studio and theater sound. Leo Fender chooses the JBL D130 transducer to amplify his electric guitar. The pioneering JBL Hartsfield speaker introduces true high fidelity to homes everywhere.

MUSCLE CARS,

WOODSTOCK,® SPACE. The legendary JBL 4320 is introduced, and becomes the definitive studio monitor of its day. After Woodstock in 1969, JBL equipment becomes standard at rock concerts around the world.

POLYESTER,

WATERGATE, SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER.®

JBL studio monitors are ranked Number One by Billboard magazine. And the L100, a consumer version of the 4320, is introduced, bringing JBL Pro technology home for the first time. The L100 becomes one of the best-selling speakers of the decade.

MIAMI VICE,® MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE,®

MTV.® The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences chooses JBL components to introduce 70mm Dolby® stereo in showcase theaters. And Bi-Radial®horns and titanium diaphragms are introduced in JBL Professional studio monitors; these innovations will soon find their way to the company’s home products.

GEN X,

DOTCOMS, DVD.

JBL equipment dominates THX® theater installations. JBL near-field studio monitors take the lead in 5.1- and

7.1-channel-sound mixing and mastering. And the JBL Simply Cinema® system, the original “one box” home theater solution, is introduced.

AMERICAN IDOL,® HDTV, JBL ES

SERIES. The higher sampling rate of new high- definition digital sources pushes consumer audio beyond the limits of the human ear, and the ES Series captures it all, with UHF drivers that extend performance beyond the usual 20kHz to the ethereal realm of 40kHz.

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1950’s

1960’s

1970’s

1980’s

1990’s

TODAY

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