[JLM]

Up for sale are a pair of JBL 708P Master Reference Monitors.  Actively bi-amplified with Class D power (250w woofer, 250w tweeter) and fully configurable onboard DSP with a wide array of EQ options to tailor the speaker's response to your room. Plus, has digital AES/EBU input and pass-through.



These are truly amazing monitors, that will let you hear the full truth of your music, yet never get fatiguing. They are fabulous for music and movies! Hear every nuance EXACTLY as it was recorded. Get that much closer to your favorite artists!  They are very powerful, dynamic, and detailed with a very room filling sound.  They are used in some of finest recording studios in the world.  Certainly, some of the best speakers I’ve heard in nearly 50 years at this.  Friends are wondering about my sanity for selling these.

They use controlled directivity design for improved imaging and a compression tweeter (both drivers were custom developed in-house) for extreme power handling capability and to blend perfectly. 



These monitors are in 8/10 shape (one small crack, don’t know when it occurred). I am the second owner, purchased one year ago. First manufactured a year and a half ago.  They were used in a smoke-free, pet free, kid free, dedicated listening room; these were babied--never abused.  They’ll ship in original boxes, all original packing.  A copy of the on-line owner’s manual and power cords will be included.


Used exclusively with DAC/preamps but now am moving in a different direction, thus the sale.  



Listed here for $2000/pair, PayPal accepted, shipping included to the lower 48 via FedEx signature required. 

Custom matching width/depth pedestal stands from TimberNation also available, 17 " tall, satin black bases are 14” x 16” x 2”, satin black caps are 2” thick, plinths are hollow (constructed of 1” boards, finished in satin ”teak” finish and nicely fits 50# of play sand each, no screws or nails needed for assembly, plinths friction fit over cleats on base and cap.  Listed for $250/pair, shipped in the same manner. 

Images available via e-mail.

Thanks for looking!



MANUFACTURER'S SPECIFICATIONS
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Frequency Response -1.5 dB @ 45Hz - 23kHz

Frequency Range 35Hz - 36 kHz

Max SPL (80 Hz - 20 kHz) >108 dB SPL / 1m

Maximum Peak SPL (80 Hz - 20 kHz) >114 dB SPL / 1m

HF Driver 2409H

LF Driver 728G

Dividing Network Transition Frequency 1.7 kHz



Input Types
1 x XLR-1/4" balanced combination analog audio input

1 x XLR AES3 format digital input with 1 x XLR digital pass-through output

Digital input will accept sample rates up to 24 bit/192 kHz



Dimensions (HxWxD) 17.25 x 9.75 x 11.5 in (438 x 248 x 292 mm)

Weight Each 25.2 lb (11.5 kg)

Enclosure Birch plywood reinforced for mounting

Mounting Top, bottom and rear mounting points. 4-hole mounting pattern, recessed side handles

[JLM]

Stands have SOLD!

JBL 708P's still for sale. 

[dburna]

Stands have SOLD!

JBL 708P's still for sale.

+1 on the 708's. I demoed them for about 3 solid hours and had a blast doing so. They are great.

+10 on Jeff as seller. Meticulous owner, so you know the gear is very well taken care of. And an all-around good guy, to boot.

-dGB

[JLM]

Just a bump.

These active monitors retail for $4000/pair.  For that price you get Harmon International's in-house expertise at driver/cabinet construction (50 years of JBL), the well respected 40+ years of amplifier design background from Crown, and the depth of acoustically knowledge of Floyd Toole who literally wrote the seminal layman's book for room acoustics.  You also get world leading component matching, design, and manufacturing.  No need to worry about finding synergistic amps.  Until you hear advantage of active speakers you really don't know what dynamics, flat frequency response, and tremendously deep/full bass can sound like.  Everything else just sounds wrong or deficient in one or more ways.
 
These are powerful high resolution instruments, capable of extreme detail yet still musical, room filling sound yet provide a completely coherent sound.  The controlled directivity design tightens image specificity and helps reduce room effects, it is the latest true advancement in speaker design.  These monitors come from as far away from a one man shop as possible, their lineage is impeccable.  You'll hear music the way most recording, mixing, and mastering professionals only wish they could.  They are not overly detailed, dry, fatiguing, or brutally honest like many audiophiles suppose, but simply extemely honest.  I enjoyed them from a mid-field (80 inch equilateral triangle) setup. 

[Doublej]

I wonder too, why are you selling them?

[JLM]

Got off the computer source bandwagon (I'm a computer dunce and finally gave up) thanks to recent acquisition of a NAD M10 "streaming amplifier" which is a 100 wpc all in one component which happens to synergize very well with my "babies" (commissioned floor standing single driver transmission line speakers that I've owned for 15 years).  So no longer have a need for the JBL's.

[Anji12305]

With Jeff's encouragement, I also purchased a pair of these.

If your source has Toslink output, a HOSA ODL312 converter will output AES3 to the JBLs.
This preserves a digital chain until the transducer.

I use a Bluesound Vault for CD playback and streaming.
I roll off the JBL at about 100 Hz to subs.

The results are excellent.