{mosreview}manufacturer=JBL Pro/product=JRX115/price=350 a pair/website=www.jblpro.com/score=3.5{/mosreview} There is no two ways about it, the JBL JRX115 speakers are budget speakers. However they are budget speakers from a top notch manufacturer, famed for producing quality products that produce quality sound.

The JRX115s are defiantly no exception to this rule, due to the various places my job takes me, I have been able to fully test the JRX115s over the past year in a variety of venue sizes, and with a variety of different music styles, both recorded and live.

Each cabinet has dimensions of 699 mm x 460 mm x 432 mm and weigh around 27 kg each; they ship with a carpeted finish which to me stinks of cheap construction. With carpet covered cabinets looking tatty after a few weeks on the road. That said, mine still look as new as the day they were bought with only a few minor scratches on the grills paint work. They do get treated fairly roughly, been thrown in and out of the back of a van almost twice daily.

The two handles on each cabinet are placed well, with the cabinet being fairly easy to carry despite its weight and bulk. The top hat however mounted into the cab is a little odd, JBL class it as their "Dual-Angle, 35mm pole-mount socket". To be honest I like the idea behind it, but in my experience it results in a mount that doesn't feel completely secure. JBL have included it so that the cabs can be mounted on stands and angled so that they face slightly downwards, making the cabs slightly more directional when mounted on stands. Each time I have felt the need to pad the speaker pole out a little with a bit of tape, in order to get the secure fit that I get with many other cabinets.

The sensitivity is nothing really to write home about with Sensitivity (1w/1m) being 98 dB SPL. However for most of the events that I use them for they seem to be more than adequate.

Sound Quality

This is where reviewing speakers gets a little harder, as in my opinion the sound is entirely subjective, whilst there is acoustically little difference between what most sound engineers would call a perfect sound. The amount of EQ that needs to be applied to reach each perfect sound can vary hugely.

First I am going to talk about live sound, having had the JRX115s for a year now, they have had a fair amount of use with a variety of acts, managing to cope with audiences of 300 people, without any problems and having lots of headroom. By themselves the JRX115s do not produce anything near to what I would class as the perfect sound; however this can be expected when you look at the price and realise what you are getting for the price.

With a little EQ these speakers are superb and really do come into their own, with a few minutes work on a GEQ the sound goes from dull and uninteresting to bright and lively. So far there hasn't been a gig where the sound produced is not one that I was proud to have engineered for.

I wouldn't recommend running these without a bit of EQ as whilst the sound is good and bearable it's far from superb.

From a mobile DJ's point of view, these speakers are perfect for most events, even without EQ the sound is good and would give a lot of the other speakers in this price range a run for their money. JBL are famed for their quality components where as the likes of other budget manufacturers, put the cheapest components they can lay their hands on. Resulting in a sound that needs a hell of a lot of EQ in order to get it to sound even half decent.

For those that care I have been using a pair of JRX115s with an Behringer EP2500 amp, a combination that I have recommended to many other bands, purely on the basis, that they produce good sound out of the box, add an EQ and you are laughing all the way to the bank.

So overall these speakers follow the JBL name, and are a great set of speakers for the beginner or even for a small B-Rig, the sound is far from faultless but is the best you will get for this price.