Question 1

My husband wants speakers for living on both sides of TV, are these what I need?

Accepted Answer

These are fantastic speakers that I would wholeheartedly recommend. They are great both for TV and music

Question 2

Is this wireless?  Do you need any additional H/w or S/w for this to work with a flat screen TV (HDMI)?

Accepted Answer

These speakers are not wireless. You will need a stereo tuner, and speaker cable.

Don't get any monster cables, just pick up your average speaker cable, it's what I'm using and it works perfectly. I have 2 of these one for each of my front speakers, even without my sub if I turn up my bass it will make the floor shake.

I would recommend these to anyone, however as I said they are not wireless but if you use them as front speakers and keep them near a wall wires shouldn't be to big of an issue.

Question 3

I like throwing house parties and have been looking for speakers that can connect through an audio cable to my phone to play the music. Will these speakers fill up a living room/house with sound? Also, these can push out 200watts of sound?

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Your questions has 2 parts in my mind "a"- can these speakers fill up a room with sound?, and "b"- you want to hook them up from your phone?  My thoughts are:

a- Yes the JBL's will definitely be able to fill a room.  They are very efficient (meaning they can produce a large amount of sound from a small amount of amplifier power) .  You will not be disappointed either with the sound quality or volume.    BUT:

b- If you want to directly connect the output of your phone, say like an iphone with the usb connection to play mp3's, you have to amplify the the music signal first.   You cannot just "plug" these speakers or any other hifi speakers into a phone.   The phone does not have an amplifier to drive the speakers.   However if you buy a modest receiver (or have one) you connect the speakers to that, and you connect your phone to the receiver.  Some new receiver, like Onkyo models that Newegg sells, have direct connections in the front of them for phones (it will say that in the specifications).   It is also possible to connect these speakers to a receiver that does not have an usb connection in the front of it by, using the output of your phone (the 2.5mm hole in your phone that you would plug ear-buds in) to a rca type adapter so that you can plug your phone into an input in the back of the receiver (like for a cd player or tape deck).   All receivers have these inputs in the back.

Again the simple answers are - the speakers will be plenty loud and clear enough - but you cannot just plug them into your cell phone and use them.   If you want to do that and do not have a receiver or want to buy one, then your only other option is to look at "powered speakers" (which newegg also sells) - but they will NOT be of the same quality and sound as these JBL's.  They will be more like speakers you hook up to your computer.

Question 4

is there any way to remove the ugly trim pieces on the front of the cabinet so i can use a conventional one-piece speaker grill?

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I haven't explored this at length. Seems like the piece that has the JBL lettering would get in the way.

All though if u get a custom screen made you could probably adhesive it to that center piece in addition to securing the screen around the edges. There has to be way to achieve what you're trying to do.

Speakers work and sound great. A little larger (deeper) than I originally expected but still really great

Question 5

what kind of wattage to make these speakers sound good?

Accepted Answer

I've had these speakers about a month I have them hooked up to my Yamaha receiver which cranks up about 100 watts they sound great crystal clear sound but not much on the low end. But my subwoofer takes care of that. I would say you need at least 25 watts to get a good sound out of them.

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