JBL ES90CH 3-Way, Dual 8" Floorstanding Speaker - Cherry

by JBL

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 15.1 x 10.2 x 42.7 inches ; 53.4 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 62 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B00166VDJE
• Item model number: ES90CH
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #113,170 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)

Product Description

The JBL ES90 is a floor standing 3-way loud speaker which utilizes dual 8" woofers for that high powered bass which is necessary for a great home theater experience. These speakers come in both cherry and black and are sold in singles so you need two for your system. JBL is a leader in both home and professional speaker systems and they utilize their great experience to make these speakers the best available. You will enjoy these speakers for both home theater and listening to you favorite CD. They give outstanding bass as well as excellent highs.

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Behold the tower of power..., June 7, 2011

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Forrest Greenwood (Duluth, MN USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: JBL ES90CH 3-Way, Dual 8" Floorstanding Speaker - Cherry (Electronics)

For some reason, reviews for JBL's ES-series speakers (now to be replaced with the Studio 1-series?) seem to be pretty thin out in the broader 'net. Fortunately, I had the benefit of auditioning a pair in person, so I knew I liked them before purchase. Others, sadly, might have to buy exclusively based on word-of-print.

So here's my contribution.

First off, for those not accustomed to the world of real loudspeakers, be advised that these are sold individually. One speaker per box. That being said, I'd hate to see the cardboard monolith that could encase two of these beasts. When you buy one of these, you're getting fifty-odd pounds of MDF, paper, and plastic. Each speaker stands just a shade over three and a half feet tall, and nearly a foot wide. Two ES90s *will* dominate whatever room you elect to be their host.

If your resident interior decorator can stomach this affront to basic civility, perhaps you can win back his or her favor with some choice music. Flowery audiophile language tends to ingratiate about as well as flowery wine language, so I'll refrain from discussions of black blacks and sparkling highs. (I don't really have an anechoic chamber handy for proper testing, anyhow.) In the living room of my modest apartment, with the speakers standing about a foot and a half away from the back wall, they produce a fairly balanced sound field. Lots of rumble down low, plenty of clarity for speech, and a slightly pronounced midrange for lush musical solos. While the ES90s might lack the ultimate clarity that some audiophiles prefer, I don't consider that to be too much of a drawback. I've heard plenty of detail-oriented speakers, and while they can sound revelatory with properly-optimized, immaculately-recorded material, they can leave you clutching your ears in terror when presented with less pristine source material. For someone like me, who listens to MP3s and watches a lot of poorly-restored old movies, I'll take smoothness over detail any day.

And these JBLs sound impeccably smooth. They'll make mellifluous sound out of pretty much anything you feed to them, short of a test signal. I wouldn't pick them to be mission-critical monitors in a recording studio, but they're just the ticket for impressing friends on Monster Movie Night. And you won't even need a subwoofer -- in a small apartment, these send out plenty of good vibrations all on their own. Depending on your receiver, you might even be able to get away without surround or center speakers, either. The ES90s' imaging is, in a word, superb. The listener can clearly place sounds across the left-right stereo field, and if your receiver allows for "virtual surround" functions like Dolby Virtual Speaker, these will convincingly handle front-to-back surround panning -- cars zooming past the camera, that sort of thing.

Highly recommended, especially if you can snag a deal on the price.