JBL Control X All-Weather Indoor/Outdoor Speaker, 200W Peak Power, Pair, Black

JBL Control X

JBL Control X All-Weather Indoor/Outdoor Speaker, Pair, Black

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JBL Control X 

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These are such great speakers. I am on the hunt for another pair.

Great Speakers!

I have used these speakers for over 2 years and they perform great!  Sound and bass is awesome and they connect almost too easily to by Android phone.

Great Speakers

This is a very good deal. Clear sound, Good price. Small speaker that doesn't use much space.

Great sound for small speaker

Love them wish I would have ordered more. Sad they are sold out.

Great sound

Purchased two pair for a patio set. Easy to install and sound quality is very good.

Great for patio

Great small speakers. Perfect for most applications, in or outdoors!

Another Great Buy.

I bought these speakers off the jbl web site. Seems to be good. Wish they could handle a little more bass

Speakers

I bought one month ago to use with my new receiver.

Good value for the price!

The speakers are easy to mount outside.  However, the ball and socket plastic mount will not fit tight enough to allow the speakers to be suspended in my chosen position without a support.  I did not want to over tighten the plastic nut so I made do.

Well built and should weather well out doors

Contact me and explain how to return/ and I'll be purchasing a bluetooth from you

wrong item/ I wanted a bluetooth speaker

I was so excited to see these speakers on sale that I guess I didn't read through the description carefully.  I had thought they were wireless and they are not.  They are also quite large and heavy. So they didn't make sense for me to keep.  They look nice, just not what I needed.   So I returned them and I give customer service five stars. My rating above reflects my surprise at the size and the weight not overall product performance. I also have purchased a speaker that will do what I really wanted.

Not what I was looking for

Replace similar JBL speakers with 6 1/2? driver.  Like the new smaller size, my rear surround are the 4? driver version, and the cases are almost the same size. Good sound for an outdoor speaker.

Replacement Speakers

Great replacements for a dated set of JBL's that came with the house.

Sound great!

First, the speakers sound good outdoors on my patio, far better than what I had been using.

I bought these for under-the-eaves installation.  I bring my patio speakers indoors in the fall, so wanted to be able to easily connect/disconnect them.  To that end, I used  banana plug connectors (as opposed to clamping bared wire ends under terminal screws).  Depending on the length of male banana plug connectors used, there may not be enough room to insert them in the speaker due to interference from the mounting bracket.  I did get some fairly short ones to fit, but it was tight, something to bear in mind.

The other factor in disconnecting the speakers is the mounting bracket.  It's a ball and socket affair that allows the speaker to pivot in all directions.  Both the ball and socket are made of hard plastic. To remove the speaker, you can remove the clamping/locking ring from the "socket", which is attached to the wall, and pop out the ball, which is attached to the speaker. It takes a bit of force to pop the ball in and out of the socket.  If the plastic socket hardens and becomes brittle over time, as plastic is wont to do, it would not be a surprise if the socket broke.  Alternately, it would be possible to unscrew the ball from the back of the speaker, but there's very little room to work and little visibility.  When mounting, you'd be trying to screw a bolt into the back of the speaker by feel.  Doable, but certainly not as easy as popping the ball out of the socket.

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Decent speakers, cramped back panel

Great addition to the deck; sound is better than I would have expected for speakers at the price I paid for them.

never knew sirus could sound good outside Easy to put up. It took less than 20 minutes to install

Love these speakers

I purchased this speakers to connect them to my arcam sr250 for stereo listening and am very happy with them, can't go wrong with JBL.

Awesome loudspeakers for any application

I bought these a week ago and I find myself going out to my yard every day to listen to them now.

They sound amazing

Packaging was great, otherwise, did not connect them yet. Hopefully, this weekend.

Not yet!

I just installed in my garage, i likes them enough to order a second pair to use in garage and outside, so far great speakers

I was debating on buying outdoor wired speakers or using a bluetooth method.  I got these on a deal and couldn't be happier.  They are heavy little guys and others stated the mounting brackets don't work well but so far I have not had any issues and mine are in Stucco.  Sound great and perfect size for the patio.

Great option for my patio/pool

I honestly have never been more impressed with a pair of loudspeakers, when price is considered.  I love the looks, the build quality, the features and the sound.  I sat my pair on top of my Klipsch Cornwalls and compared. Of course the little JBL?s don?t make deep bass...or mid bass for that matter. But somehow the Control X?s managed to sound balanced. The top end, with my Denon amplification was a bit bright, bordering on hot, but at least for my fairly short audition it still sounded good to me.  Mids were fine but again, a limited audition.  In short, the JBL?s were not embarrassed by the big Klipsch that weigh about 100 lbs each and list for $3000 each.  And this was at 85 dB-plus levels. I?m still scratching my head over how this can be,  but however it was done, thanks JBL. Very well done!

Wow!

Hooked them up to a small amp and Bose SoundTouch wireless adapter. Now I have the same sound outside and inside and the entire install took 1 h

Great sound easy Install

These speakers sound great and complement my other older JBL speakers nicely.

Sounds great!

I own 3 pairs of these Control X "wired" and 1 pair of the "wireless" version.  I like the sound very much of the wired versions.  But, the wireless version of this speaker fails to maintain a connection (an association) between the L and R speaker.  It appears the "wireless" version of these speakers was so troublesome, JBL stopped selling them.  JBL tech support did not know the difference between the Bluetooth radio link and the wireless link between each speaker.  Tech support not trained well enough.  So, I'm stuck with one non-function wireless pair and 3 wired pairs.  Needless to say, nothing with a JBL label on it sounds good if there is a bad experience.

Wired versus Wireless

Theses speakers are really loud,they sound really good and a good bass,you cant go wrong with jbl

Exellent speakers

These speakers sound great and I am please with them except for the wall mount. What were they thinking? A single ball joint, cantilevering a pretty heavy speaker is a poor idea. It simply won’t hold the weight of the speaker for long. I had to add wooden blocks behind them to keep them from sagging. It not a good idea And it should be changed. Still the sound engineers did a great job and I’ll keep these because they really do sound good. I used a small amp to power them and chrome cast for Spotify. Great paring. Nice bass, smooth mids and highs.

Wonderful sound.

I have owned JBL speakers for almost 40 years.  I have the 4311 studio monitors and the L100t3.  The Control X speakers have very accurate sound reproduction, not like some of the others that think bass is the most important frequency.  I highly recommend them.

Easy to mount, great sound, great price. I love JBL products and would purchase over all of the high priced brands.