225-watt, dual 8" (200mm), three-way floorstanding speaker designed for your home theater.
JBL® products are known throughout the world for providing movie theaters, concert venues and recording studios with exceptional sound. And now you can bring that famous sound into your home with the JBL E90 three-way floorstanding speaker. With its dual 8-inch (200-millimeter) PolyPlas woofers, you’ll experience deep, resounding bass that will make you feel like you’re right at the source of the sound. The speaker’s 4-inch (200-millimeter), PolyPlas™ midrange driver provides you with clear, undistorted vocals. And its 3/4-inch (19-millimeter), titanium-laminate tweeter features Elliptical Oblate Spheroidal™ (EOS) waveguide technology, which directs sound to make every seat the best in the house. The E90, which measures 40-1/4 x 10 x 14-1/2 inches (1022 x 251 x 368 millimeters), comes in an elegant black-ash enclosure that is sure to enhance any listening space. It’s also magnetically shielded, so you don’t have to worry about interference from your screen. Whether you’re using the E90 as a stand-alone speaker or combining it with others in the E Series, such as the EC25 center-channel speaker or the E10 bookshelf speakers, you will experience your music and movies as never before – unless you’re in an actual movie theater, of course.
JBL engineers have designed the E90 for serious audio output. We recommend that you power it with a separate, 225-watt amplifier, whether you are using the speaker as a stand-alone unit or as part of a stereo/surround-sound system.
The E90’s low-frequency driver produces uniform pistonic motion and effortless, high-impact bass. Premium components such as PolyPlas coating on the driver and a HeatScape™ motor structure give you low distortion, few internal resonances and the freedom to play loud and long.
The midrange frequencies, where vocals are reproduced, are the heart and soul of great audio. They’re also the area where departures from faithful reproduction are most noticeable. Since the E90’s midrange driver features PolyPlas coating, which reproduces vocals with incredible accuracy and low distortion, the voices that you hear from this speaker come out clear and true.
Titanium is light but strong – an ideal material for high-frequency speakers. The E90 speaker’s extremely thin but rigid titanium-laminate tweeter delivers accurate, undistorted high-frequency response, even when the volume is way up. The result is full, clear, tight reproduction of high frequencies.
High-frequency and ultrahigh-frequency sounds are directional – they don’t spread out very widely, and they reach only a narrow range of the people in any room. But the proprietary Elliptical Oblate Spheroidal (EOS) waveguide in the E90 speaker widens the sound’s range to fill the entire room. You’ll get ideally balanced music, crisp dialogue and smooth audio distribution throughout the listening space. As a result, every seat will be the best seat in your home theater.
The E90’s IsoPower™ baffle design rigidly affixes the drivers to an extremely dense, non-resonant baffle. It allows the drivers to generate maximum air movement and energy while minimizing energy loss.
Heat can distort a speaker’s sound and lower its output and power handling. Fortunately, the E90 includes our proprietary HeatScape motor structure, which removes heat. As a result, it operates efficiently and reproduces sound accurately.
With a frequency response of 36Hz – 20kHz, the E90’s sound reproduction is extremely smooth and extended in every direction. The system’s directivity and power response are highly uniform, its harmonic distortion is reduced to inaudible levels, and its dynamic linearity is unparalleled.
The ideal path from input to components to transducers is a straight line. The E90 takes the shortest path possible, thanks to its Straight-Line Signal Path™ design. As a result, the speaker preserves the clarity, detail and dynamics of any audio content that it plays.
The magnets in many speakers can interfere with video reception, but not the magnets in the E90. We’ve shielded them to prevent interference. You get not only a clear TV picture but also installation flexibility, since you can place the speakers as close to your screen as you want.
