JBL308P MKII Powered Two Way Active Studio Reference Monitor – 8” Woofer and 1” Tweeter, next gen transducers, stunning detail, precise imaging, wide sweet spot, flexible connectivity – Single Unit

They are small enough, so easy to transport, but give plenty of really high quality sound, almost surprising. But then JBL has been doing HiFi for many decades and they are still some of the best on the market. 2 boxes easily fill a medium sized dancing hall, not even at full power. I guess if you play tracks where only low frequencies and heavy beat are important you can buy something cheaper. But if you want the whole spectrum, these will not disappoint. Next step up means 3-5 times more expensive studio boxes but those only pay off in a studio, where you have control of the walls and geometry.

These sound good to my ears

I needed something to replace my Presonus Eris 4.5 monitors which had gone faulty.With minimal space options were limited, but these JBLs (298 x 185 x 231 mm) were compact enough to just fit.Very impressed - great sound with tight, solid bass, uncoloured response and loads of volume.They have auto power saving and will snooze without a signal, so they can be left powered on.

For most people this is not a cheep Subwoofer and u would expect it to arrive in mint condition since it supposed to be new .Sounds good dough

To the user who moaned about being unable to defeat the Auto-Standby feature......Read the user manual.....Use the following procedure to disable the auto-low power standby mode:Power speaker OFF.Set BOUNDARY EQ to the “0dB” setting.Set HF Trim to “+2dB” setting.Set the VOLUME control to “1” (full counter-clockwise setting).Power the speaker ON.Within a period of 5 seconds following power-ON:• Set BOUNDARY EQ to the “-3dB” setting and...• Set the HF TRIM switch to the “-2dB” setting.The front panel LED will flash for 5 seconds indicating the low-power auto-standby mode has beendisabled and will remain disabled upon subsequent power cycles

Fabulous quality sound

Bought from Amazon warehouse - why don’t you guys check something Is actually working before you send it out? It wasn’t - you have wasted my time. You have wasted my money. I am very annoyed. Crap service beware everyone.

I'd been needing to upgrade for a long time. Most people were telling me to buy some ADAMS speakers (which actually cost LESS than these now). But a few people who make some of my favorite music use JBLs. So in my mind there was no contest. However, having had these for quite a while now i have to admit to being massively dissapointed. They don't sound any clearer to me than my old Alesis Eletave 5's (which are an almost identical size and cost about a third as much). In fact i'll go further and say that at anything less than apocalyptic volumes these actually sound worse. ''Muggy'' i think the word is..On top of that, they have the single stupidest feature of any technology (which is even dumber in speakers), which is that after a couple of minutes of inactivity they power down. Not just inactivity either. While using these at low volume, or to check more high frequency sounds, these actually power down WHILE I'M USING THEM. And as far as i can tell there is no way to change this. Seriously, how are we supposed to troubleshoot audio issues when more and more of the technology is working against us in this way?.Editing this review a couple of years after purchase, I think I have used these speakers less than a dozen times (when I make music every day), and having left it far to long for a refund (d'oh!) I am now giving my pair away. I think that says a lot..