JBL L880 6-Inch 4-Way Dual Floorstanding Loudspeaker (Black)

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 14.8 x 8.8 x 39 inches ; 70 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 61 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item can only be shipped to the 48 contiguous states. We regret it cannot be shipped to APO/FPO, Hawaii, Alaska, or Puerto Rico.
• Note: Gift-wrapping is not available for this item.
• ASIN: B000G1NWYO
• Item model number: L880
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #26,853 in Electronics (See Bestsellers in Electronics)

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• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 29, 2006

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description
The Studio L880 4-Way, Dual 6" Floorstanding Loudspeaker is designed to give you outstanding high-frequency response as well as excellent bass. These speakers are designed to bring the feeling of a live performance into your living room. They are sold individually so you need to order two in order to get a pair.

Product Description
The Studio L880 4-Way, dual 8" fllorstanding loudspeaker is designed to give you outstanding high frequency response as well as excellent bass. These speakers are designed to bring the feeling of a live performance into your living room. These speakers are sold individually so you need to order two in order to get a pair.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great bang (and crash and boom) for your bucks, May 5, 2009

By	Nathan L. Steele "Early Adopter" (Springfield, IL) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The JBL L880 floorstanding towers are EXTRAORDINARY value for money compared with other manufacturer's and internet only dealers products. Many will claim to have very neutral response and dynamic potential, but JBL has been in the business of making speakers since before many of those companies were glimmers in the eyes of their founders.

You can find excellent measurements of the L880's response curves online (Stereophile has an excellent review with such measurements) and the measurements don't lie. Flat response on axis from 40KHz down to about 30 Hz (with some leeway for room reinforcement). What that means in terms of listening is that everything sounds exactly as the mixer, engineers, and musicians (or movie makers if that's your bag) intended it to; nothing is being unduly influenced by characteristics of the speakers themselves, hence the description as neutral.

I've been using these paired with an Onkyo TX-SR606, a JBL LC2 center, and some surrounds that used to be the fronts in an Onkyo package (SKS-HT540) for home theater, but what's been most pleasantly surprising is how much these have gotten me back into stereo music listening.

These are excellent speakers for both music and movies, but their musicality is amazing. They produce rich, full bass, mids, and highs with great ease. If you push them, they don't sweat, they just go louder and louder until your AVR gets to its limits. These speakers have made me reconsider my stance on getting a pre-pro and separate amps in the future. Now I want them worse than ever, just to see what these are capable of with 200 Watts RMS vs. the ~90 I'm giving them now.

I've rediscovered my love of classical music thanks to these speakers. I can't wait to get some pipe organ CDs to really put them through their paces.

Pros
-Very nice looking in cherry finish (I'll post a photo)
-Astonishing sound reproduction
-Great stereo imaging
-Great punch and dynamics (esp. for movies, but even with driving rock and roll at extreme volumes these loudspeakers don't crack a sweat)
-Huge headroom for further amplification (as funds become available)
-Nice interconnects and relatively undetectable crossovers (that's a good thing)
-Excellent full range response

Cons
-Size may be an issue for some (I believe in bigger is better when speakers are on the table; see photo for size reference)
-Bi-wire connectivity is more gimmick than reality
-Plastic feet are a weak point but don't look bad
-Resistance ratings are optimistic at 8 ohms nominal (see Stereophile's review among others, these have a wide patch of 3-4 ohm response that may tax some receivers not rated for those low resistances)

In sum these speakers are AMAZING value for money, even at Amazon's prices (though sometimes Harman refurbished ones can be had for less elsewhere on the internet making them even greater value). They are great for home theater applications, but I think even better for music listening in 2 channel or multi-channel. To be completely honest I wish I could buy 3 more L880s for multichannel applications but I know my wife would kill me.

I'm not an audiophile, but I do like classical and jazz music at reference volumes (and play both nonprofessionally) and I can tell you from my own experience with other far more expensive brands at boutique audio stores, these will give speakers at 4 times the price a run for their money with the right amplification (at least 75 W RMS in real life, not manufacturers specs) and have blown everything I've heard at twice the price away solidly.

p.s. There's another reviewer who has suggested that these speakers are the same as the LC2 center channel speaker in the same line. As an owner of both, I can tell you they are not. Cabinet resonance and porting creates a very different speaker (even my Onkyo agrees as the Audyssey 2EQ calibration program crosses the LC2 over at 60 Hz, but leaves the L880s at "Full Range"). The bass and midbass are far fuller and more robust from the L880s.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best affordable speakers, December 20, 2008

By	Mr.Breeze (Florida) - See all my reviews

These speakers are great for home theater and music. With a Polk PSW505 12 inch Sub and Bose 161 surround and center. Clear highs with tight punching bass. And mid range that isn't muffled. Quality made speakers, solid. When buying great speakers except no substitutes. JBL. They did come to me in the origial boxes that were in rough shape with the seals broken. But everything was there and not broke.Rub marks rubbed out with polish. They need to double box them before shipping. Shipping was fast.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT speaker for a GREAT price!, February 9, 2009

By	Gary T. Weil (Tampa, Florida) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

After doing exhaustive research on floorstanding speakers for my new home theater I decided on the JBL L880s. All of the reviews I read were extremely positive as well as recommendations I got from dealers. Everything turned out to be true- these speakers are not only well built and sound great, they are good looking as well. Their ability to handle all that is thrown at them (music and movie) is exceptional. The range capability is outstanding. After tweaking the crossover frequency and settling on 60Hz (sending the rest to the subwoofer)they sound excellent. I also purchased the JBL LC1 center speaker to go with them. I highly recommend these speakers- I couldn't be more pleased with them.