JBL CINEMA SOUND
™
HIGH-PERFORMANCE SOUND
NO-SWEAT INSTALLATION.
®
.
JBL CINEMA SOUND. FAMILY HOME ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM WITHOUT THE ROCKET SCIENCE.
TAKE A SEAT AT THE CENTER OF A PRECISELY IMAGED 360-DEGREE
SOUNDSCAPE.
favorite movies in theaters. Now, JBL Cinema Sound
With only three Cinema Sound components, you (yes, you) can confidently assemble a sophisticated mulitchannel home theater audio
system that not only enhances the look of your plasma or LCD video monitor, but also does full justice to its glorious high-definition picture.
Let the thunderous bass and brilliantly distinct dialogue wash over you. This is how you hear your
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duplicates the experience at home – easily.
YOU CAN DO THE MATH.
Four Cinema Sound towers plus one center speaker plus one powered subwoofer equals
5.1-channel surround sound, while six plus one plus one equals full-spectrum 7.1. Simple
enough. But to make things even easier, all Cinema Sound speakers can be quickly
gravity-mounted to any horizontal surface, without tools.
OKAY, MAYBE JUST A LITTLE ROCKET SCIENCE.
HIGH-EXCURSION
POLYPLAS
REINFORCED
WOOFERS
Stiffer cones deliver more uniform
pistonic motion, for deeper, tighter
bass. Cinema Sound’s dual 5-inch
cones, driven by 1-1/2-inch voice
coils with neodymium magnets,
are also light in weight, to deliver
improved dynamic response with
lower distortion.
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–
TITANIUM-LAMINATEDOME TWEETER
WITH INTEGRAL
WAVEGUIDES –
Elliptical Oblate Spheroidal™(EOS™)
waveguides, originally developed
for JBL Pro LSR studio monitors,
disperse clean, high-frequency
sound more precisely, across a
wider listening area. So sit wherever
you’re comfortable – you won’t
miss a thing.
FLOOR-FIRING
SUBWOOFER WITH
FREEFLOW
ARCHITECTURE
Subwoofers are all about power,
but the Cinema Sound subwoofer
is also about finesse. It features a
computer-optimized flared aperture
to eliminate audible port noise.
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PORT
–
STRAIGHT-LINE
SIGNAL PATH
NETWORK –
shortest possible route from the
input terminals to the transducers,
this proprietary crossover design
minimizes noise and signal loss.
So you’ll hear everything your DVD
and music sources can dish out.
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(SSP™)
By taking the
PRO SOUND COMES HOME
N
YLON STOCK-
I
NGS, FILM NOIR,
THE DAWN OF
James B.
AUDIO.
Lansing leaves Western
Electric (where he led the
team that brought sound
to the movies) to start
JBL. First products: the
D130, an innovative highpower, low-frequency
t
ransducer, and a highfrequency transducer
that’s still used by audio
professionals more than
5
0 years later.
B
LUE SUEDE
SHOES,
MCCARTHY,
T
HE ELECTRIC
UITAR.
As rock ‘n’
L
IFEmagazine
G
roll is born, JBL becomes
the clear leader in studio
and theater sound. Leo
Fender chooses the D130
to amplify his electric
g
uitars. And
calls the JBL Hartsfield
the “dream speaker” for
the amazing new world
o
f hi-fi.
VIETNAM,
W
OODSTOCK,
S
duces the legendary
4320. With a high-frequency compression
driver and acoustic lens
in a 4-way configuration,
it becomes the definitive
studio monitor of the
Space Age. And JBL
becomes standard
e
concerts. Remember that
little gathering at
Woodstock, NY? (We’re
w
JBL intro-
PACE.
quipment at major rock
ith the band, man.)
P
OLYESTER,
WATERGATE,
SATURDAY
N
IGHT FEVER.
By 1976, a Billboard
survey ranks JBL studio
monitors number one.
And JBL Pro technology
comes home with the
L-100, a consumer version
o
f the 4300 Series, one of
the best-selling speakers
of the decade (and vastly
better looking than the
c
lothes of the era).
MIAMI VICE,
M
ASTERS OF
T
HE UNIVERSE,
The Academy of
MTV.
Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences chooses JBL
components to introduce
70mm Dolby
s
JBL introduces titanium
diaphragms and Bi-Radial
horns in professional
s
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howcase theaters.
tudio monitors.
stereo in
GEN X, DOTCOMS, DVD.
JBL’s professional
innovations come thick
and fast: Vented Gap
™
Optimized
Cooling,
™
horns, rapid-
Aperture
flare low-distortion
compression drivers.
J
BL corners the THX
cinema market. And JBL
®
near-field studio monitors
lead in 5.1- and 7.1-sound
m
ixing and mastering.
P
LASMA TV,
™
S
ACD,
CINEMA SOUND.
Low-resolution video and
stereo-era audio pass into
oblivion, and a new era of
home entertainment begins.
With proven, professional
technologies and a radically
simple design philosophy,
JBL Cinema Sound brings the
®
c
aptivating experience of
movie house and concert hall
performances home, in a
sophisticated system you can
d
esign and install yourself.
J
BL
1940’s
1950’s
DISTORTION-FREE
COMPOSITE
ENCLOSURES – Rounded
at the back to minimize unwanted
resonances, Cinema Sound’
high-style, high-tech
enclosures
are virtually distortion-free, in the
longstanding JBL tradition.
1960’s
1970’s
1980’s 1990’s TODAY
s
ou hear JBL in places where sound is everything: Lucasfilm’s Skywalker Ranch, Polygram Records, the Sydney Opera House, CBGB.
Y
ou hear us in places you wouldn’
Y
t have guessed we’d be: Beijing’
Stadium, Disney World. You hear us in places that have only great sound in common: the Grand Ole Opry,
s Great Hall of the People, the Library of Congress, the Reykjavik Ice
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the Royal Shakespeare Theatre,
the Georgia Dome and Hard Rock Cafes around the world. And you hear us in places that are highly relevant to the immediate topic at
hand: Loews Cineplex, AMC and United Artists cinemas nationwide, not to mention Mann’
s Chinese and Directors Guild of America
theaters in Hollywood, and the Samuel Goldwyn theater in Beverly Hills. JBL professional equipment has been setting – and continually
raising – audio performance standards in theaters, concert halls, recording studios and arenas around the world for more than 50 years.
s what makes JBL JBL.
It’
MOVIE CRITICS
MEASURE
EXCITEMENT
IN TERMS OF
STARS OR
THUMBS.
WE GO
A LITTLE
HIGHER-TECH.
R
EAL-TIME
FFT LASER
V
IBROMETRY.
Measuring the infinitesi
mal is (or should be) an
audio engineer’s stockin-trade, and the more
precise the measurement
tools, the better the
result. JBL engineers
use lasers to test the performance characteristics
of various transducer
materials and laminates,
to find those least likely
to produce unwanted
r
esonances during peak
audio passages. It’s
exacting work, but JBL
has to do it.
IMPROVED
A
NECHOIC
C
HAMBERS.
I
magine a room so
sonically inert that sound
reflections can’t happen.
Such a room is costly to
produce, but it’s the only
way to conduct ultraprecise measurements
of a loudspeaker’s
primary output. JBL has
invested in new anechoic
chambers to improve our
understanding of how
m
aterials and coatings
and manufacturing
techniques affect
loudspeaker performance.
MULTIAXIS
ANALYSIS.
Suppose, just suppose,
that your TV room isn’t
perfectly shaped. Is your
q
ueen-size convertible
sofa going to screw up
the nearly perfect output
of your JBL Cinema
Sound system? The
a
nswer lies in a complex
combination of literally
thousands of on- and offaxis responses, which
we’ve precalculated for
y
our convenience.
Rest assured, JBL
C
inema Sound speakers
have been optimized for
real-world rooms filled
with real-world furniture.
THE MOST
S
OPHISTICATED
I
NSTRUMENT
OF ALL.
Trained or
untrained, professional
or amateur, the human
ear is and will always be
t
he final arbiter of sound.
And for all our technology,
we’re still heavily reliant
on it. Like all our products,
JBL Cinema Sound louds
peakers have passed
stringent listening tests
with people in all types
of listening environments.
Which is why we can
confidently predict how
you’ll feel when you hear
them for the first time.
e have a feeling it will
W
be some variation on the
very first spoken line of
movie dialogue (which
o
ur founder, James B.
Lansing, was instrumental
in enabling) – “You ain’t
heard nothin’ yet.”
SPECIFICATIONS
CST55
, dual 5" (130mm)
ay
2-W
satellite loudspeaker center channel loudspeaker
Frequency Response
Maximum Recommended
Amplifier Power
Power Handling
(continuous/peak) 50W/300W 50W/300W
Sensitivity (1 watt/1 meter) 90dB 90dB
Nominal Impedance 8 Ohms 8 Ohms
Tweeter One 3/4" (19mm) titanium-laminate dome, video-shielded
oofers Dual 5" (130mm) transducers with PolyPlas
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Dimensions (H x W x D)
eight
W
All features and specifications are subject to change without notice.
The maximum recommended amplifier power rating will ensure proper system headroom to allow
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for occasional peaks. W
e do not recommend sustained operation at these maximum power levels.
55Hz to 30kHz (–6dB) 55Hz to 30Hz (–6dB)
150W*
neodymium magnets and HeatScape
46" x 8" x 6-1/2"
1168mm x 203mm x 165mm)
(
17 lb (7.7kg)
CSC55
2-Way, dual 5" (130mm)
150W*
video-shielded
6-1/4" x 26-1/4" x 4-1/4"
(159mm x 667mm x 108mm)
10 lb (4.5kg)
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cones,
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motor structure;
CSS10
10," 150-Watt
powered subwoofer
Frequency Response 27Hz to low-pass-crossover
Amplifier Power
Inputs
oofer
W
Dimensions (H x W x D)
eight
W
setting at signal source
150W RMS
Line-level/LFE
(250mm) PolyPlas
"
10
HeatScape
and
video-shielded
structure;
18-1/4" x 13-1/4" x 16"
(464mm x 337mm x 406mm)
(including feet)
43 lb (19.5kg)
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motor
™
cone
PRO SOUND
COMES HOME
JBL Consumer Products
250 Crossways Park Drive, Woodbury, NY 11797
8500 Balboa Boulevard, Northridge, CA 91329
516.255.4JBL (4525) www.jbl.com
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All rights reserved.
Part No. CINSOUNDLIT11/05 Printed in USA
JBL, Harman International and Bi-Radial are registered trademarks, and EOS, FreeFlow, HeatScape, JBL Cinema Sound,
Optimized Aperture, PolyPlas, Pro Sound Comes Home, Straight-Line Signal Path and Vented Gap Cooling are trademarks,
of Harman International Industries, Incorporated.
Dolby is a registered trademark of Dolby Laboratories.
Grand Ole Opry is a registered trademark of Gaylord Entertainment Company.
SACD is a trademark of Sony Electronics Inc.
THX is a registered trademark of THX Ltd.
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esigned, edited and digitally produced by the
H
arman Consumer Group Marketing & Design Center, Woodbury, NY.
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