JBL is a company which stretches from the lowest to the highest echelons of audio, from real cinemas, studio monitors and high-end home cinema at the top, to the world’s most successful mono portable Bluetooth speakers at the bottom. It’s a size of operation which gives it an advantage in terms of economies of scale, in technology licensing — it probably doesn’t hurt, either, to be owned by Harman, with all its broad expertise across multiple audio brands, and beyond that by Samsung, with its extended technology strengths and massive marketing reach.
In short, JBL invariably offers more than you might expect at a given price, and its latest soundbar, the JBL Bar 5.0 MultiBeam, proves no exception.
Equipment
The JBL bar is solidly built and nicely compact at 71cm…