Sir the more I find out about these 715 the more thinking I made a 11 hundred dollar mistake I just wanted to plug a mic and a electric acoustic into one and I haven't dived into it 100 percent yet but I think I'm going to have to put a mic in one and hopefully the guitar will work w the other one all I have is a home studio slash jam room and I work hard for my money my name is Rich not my financial status ok THANX Richard
I have a question about the powe r button. Is there a setting in the software to have the soesker default to on when plugging in.. i ask because the typical "hard switch" has thebadvantage of seotching on the speaker remotely via controllling the plug socket power. Also concerned about having it mounted high amd speaker being accidentally unplugged. Then wouldni have to always re press the button when pkuggimg back in the speaker?
The power button is digital so you will need to turn the speaker back on if it gets unplugged for longer than about 10 seconds. To my knowledge, there is no way to change a setting so it automatically turns on when plugged in.
Hi I'm looking to buy a couple of these and one sub with it but I have a few noobie questions. Does it make sense to also get 2 subs with a pair of these to have a good balance of sound or is one sub enough? And my most important question is is there a limit of how many eon715 speaker and eon718 sub I can plug together? I might want to expand in the future and buy a few more to get a 100-200 people dancing outdoors. Would 4-5 of these and 3 subs do the job? thanks for your time
Great questions, I would say you can get by with one sub in most situations, but it very much depends on what your situation is. If you're in front of a large crowd and you're playing bass heavy club music, 2+ would be a good choice. If you're renting these out, 2 would be a good choice. If you're buying for a band or wedding dj set-up and you play for crowds of 200 or less, 1 would likely be fine. You can plug as many of these together as your venue power can support. Each of these are individually powered, so chaining them together doesn't effect their power. Total power on the venues main circuit is what will matter. Feel free to give me any follow up questions you have. Help out my channel by using the purchase links in the description! 😄
@@djsanctus1650 And thanks for your answer, I will get a the sub from RCF that is 1150w rms and I will see how it sounds, it's for open air tekno parties so two will definitely be necessary for more than 50 people outside actively dancing and losing themselves in the music.
Any Tips on setting the #DB on each channel as was getting distortion as im running the speaker through my Pioneer mixer w/ master at 12 o clock......Thank you
If you set your speaker’s master and channel specific volumes to around 75%, everything past that point should be based on speaker placement, cables, and how your mixer board is set up (volume, gain, frequency levels, etc…). Are you getting distortion on microphones or music you’re playing?
@@djsanctus1650 hi, does the JBL eon 715 get hot when turned on? I bought two Electro-Voice ZLX-15BT speakers and they get very hot at the rear side after turned on for 15 minutes even when it’s not playing anything. Thanks
The problem with jbl eon 700 series is you cannot turn off the bluetooth on the speaker. Anyone can connect to the speakers using bluetooth even if your are using line 1 or line 2.
I agree that this is a major issue. I haven't had it happen to me yet. What has happened is losing power at a venue and my laptop connecting to the speaker via Bluetooth after power came back and sending me on a wild goose chase about why my mixer no longer controls music volume...
Hello! I have the speaker plugged into an electronic drum set but can’t get any sound out of it. I’ve adjusted all 3 gains and still no sound. Bluetooth with my phone works, however. Scratching my head on this one. Any advice?
Well that sounds frustrating. Sorry you’re having problems. If there is output from the drum set, you should be hearing *something. You might plug the drum set into a second device of some kind (small Bluetooth speaker, laptop, etc…) to verify you’ve got audio coming out. Next take something else that outputs audio (like a microphone) and test to see if you get sound from the speakers. If you do, and you’ve tested both Chanel 1 and Chanel 2 and can’t get sound from the drums, it could have to do with the drums output being too weak. At which point you could purchase a Bluetooth transmitter and have a “wireless” drum set. Or, you could purchase a signal amplifier of some kind and increase the output signal.
Is the ducking able to completely silent a channel? Thinking about having backround music via bluetooth that gets silenced when someone sings karaoke on my karaoke system thats connected by XLR
That's a neat use case for these. I don't think this will work as intended because the ducking just drops the volume some. Also it pops right back up within a few seconds. So the singing would need to stay consistent.
JBL really screwed up, they made the female hole for the pole 36mm instead of 35mm, 35mm is standard, and that is why the thing flops around on standard stands. This made me very upset when I bought the speaker because that is not cool at all. I believe that in manufacturing someone made a mistake with the hole measurements, and it was too costly to correct, or either they changed it purposely to get people to buy their proprietary speaker stands. However, i cannot find a speaker stand that supports a 36mm hole size from any manufacturer. I am thinking of sending it back because when you are out working you need your speaker to be snug. And like this interview said, why not include a set screw??????????
Yeah, I've been using cable wraps to hold the cables in position on the stand, which in turn mostly keeps the speaker from moving, but it's still not great and even a little unstable. It does make getting them on the pole easier, if we're looking on the bright side...
I don't know that I understand your message. There are two "audio ins" (ch1 and ch2) and they will both feed to the output chanel. Can you elaborate on what you mean by extra feed through?
I hate this thing. Just spent $500 for this speaker on the strength of their old school equipment. God damn thing shows up looking like a spaceship and offering to connect to my cell phone. Get to the venue and plug it in and nothing. Clicking around on the silly digital settings menu and can't figure out how to get sound from a simple microphone plugged in the back. You have ONE JOB you goddamn digital piece of trash, GTFOH
I can't believe anyone can review a product like this and clearly hasn't looked at the user manual - eg your comments about gain and ducking release time. And from the few comments I've looked at below, it's clear there are lots of other guys who buy this stuff and have all kinds of questions about getting it to work, when they, too, have clearly not looked at the manual. Read the bloody manual guys! (But hey, that's just me, I'm an engineer.)
Well for starters, I typically don't read manuals for equipment I've used in the past (do you read the manual for a toaster before you buy one? Probably not). I've been a DJ for going on a decade and have used several different speaker systems, plus I'm a fairly tech savvy person, so I don't shy away from new tech like this. Secondly, I did read the manual that came in-box with the speakers and it was extremely unhelpful in regards to control systems. It was much more a-kin to a quick start guide than an actual full user manual.
Hey! Really excited about your next video. I went to a local sound store and paired my phone to one of these. With 0db gain and max volume, the speaker started limiting. I never expected it to do that. Compared to other brands like the EV ZLX which didn't struggle at all. Even cheaper brands weren't limited at 0db. Do you think this is just a gain thing? I left really disappointed that the speaker couldn't take a little beating and produce a high SPL.
Update the firmware! Before my eon 700’s even both of my 718s were hitting limiter at -20db master volume. After updating firmware the limiter doesnt even turn green at 0db master volume
Is there a Rough Guide to the perfect Gain Settings?? I received the speaker today and im not exactly sure what im tweaking as far as the Sound , Quite complicated opposed to the original Eon Gain settings......Any Help much appreciated as i dont want to damage the speaker.....Thanks
So sorry for not getting to this until now. I don't know that the "perfect" gain settings exist, but this is what I've been doing. *Start by turning all volume controls all the way down on everything* -Starting at my laptop, setting my audio out to 75%. -At my mixer board, setting all of my volume sliders to where I want them. -At my speakers, *with music playing* starting with the internal chanel gain at about 8db, put the master volume to about 75%, next, start increasing the external gains for each chanel up until the sound is at the desired volume. If you get to 100% on the external gains, set them back to 50%, increast a few more db on the internal gain ad try again. This way, you have several places to squeeze some extra volume if needed. You can increase volume at the mixer, or at the speaker, or both if you really need it.
Yeah I can understand that. The weight difference between these and a wood box housing is for sure noticeable. But so is the feeling of quality between the wood and cheaper plastic.
Thanks mate, i have the eon612 super easy. Was going to update and use these for mains and12s for foldback. Might go with the 615, less features easier
Yeah, I’ve been very cautious with that interior gain setting. Have you damaged your speakers or seen damaged speakers because of the gain? I would’ve thought the clipping safeguards would protect them from cranking it up too much?
@dj sanctus do you recommend 1 or 2 of these if you want to do a DJ gig? I have a Pioneer DJ controller. I can see each speaker has 2 channels. Thanks a lot.
Well I’ll say that technically depends on things like the size of venue/crowd, if you want stereo output, if symmetry for your setup is important, and then what your budget is. One will work for something like a small pool party. Two will be more of what you need for a wedding reception or a dance.
man thanks for this review. I recently upgraded from the JBL eon615's to these with the eon 18s subs. I thought I knew how to plug and play these, shouldn't be much different from the eon600 series right? haha wrong. I felt like I was pushing on my board and just wasn't getting enough. Like you said in the video "you feel like they're broken already". I had no idea you had 2 gain levels per channel. one on the channel knob and the other in settings. Didn't realize I had to mess with both until I saw your video so thank you for explaining all this! Im gonna adjust my settings tomorrow and see if that fixed my problem I was having with these speakers. Im more than sure this was the issue. Oh and I hate that these don't come with the pole setter screw. The only design flaw I hate about these compared to the 600 series.
@@djsanctus1650 mine have only a couple of miles on them and haven't really been put to the test as far as durability yet, so I wouldn't be able to give you a proper review of quality. I have a bunch of shows upcoming the next few months though. As for right now they seem pretty durable. But I put my 600's to the test, even been dropped from a speaker stand thanks to some heavy winds at an outdoor event. The 600s were great. I love them. So far I am little iffy on the 700s but I know that once I dial it in correctly they'll be better than the 600s. My only real issue is how heavy the 718s are. I was using the JBL PRX718s with the Eon600s and man I was getting some great sound out of them. And the PRX subs were super light for being subs. These eon subs are about 65-70 lbs heavier. I'll give you a review in about a month after I have put them through about 6 shows.
@@djsanctus1650 also I think the issue or big difference between the 600s and 700s is the mic/line button the channel inputs for the 600s. The 700s don't have those which is where knowing your gain levels helps with the sound output. Pushing that little mic/line button on the 600s was awesome, especially me who uses my equipment to run sound for bands. I wish they would've kept that feature on the 700s to make it easier instead of having to change all your gain levels accordingly. I just feel they made it to where its more work to adjust your levels than compared to the 600s. Also I used the JBL app to control the levels and I didn't notice a difference. I had all 4 speakers connected and literally didn't hear a difference when messing with the levels on the app. Have you had any problems or issues with the app?
Hey DJ Sanctus I recently bought 4 of these Eons 715, and 2 of the Eons 718s, the problem is that I am not able to get some good sound, as soon as I increase the volume using the gain, and the one on the main settings I immediately get a red light/clipping
@@jimmygobe9815 Hey there, is the clipping on all of them? I don't have the 718's so I can't really speak to how those function. I do know that my method is usually to set everything on my gear to the lowest volume, set the internal gain for the speakers to like 8db or so, and then slowly turn everything up, starting with putting my mixing board at the prefered volume levels before moving to the speakers. If your speakers are going from 0 sound to clipping as soon as you increase the gains, then in my mind the issue is likely with what your outputting to them. Whatever signal your sending them is too much for them to work with, assuming all of the other gains/volumes are at reasonable numbers. If you've maxed out the master volume, and the chanel gains, then your increasing the digital gains, that may be the problem... Hope that helps, my friend!
How do you switch off the bluetooth? I've noticed that I can connect my smartphone anytime and pair with the speaker to play the music. This seems kind of risky during performance that someone will play with it.
So you can do it automatically with a new device without pairing it through the menu first? Literally just bought these and that's what I've been worried about. They say you can connect your phone to it to prevent anyone else doing so but then I'm worried about getting a phone call
Would a pair of these be enough to piss the neighbours off? I can’t make up my mind if I should get these or 2x jbl partybox 1000 don’t no what will thump harder
go with the 2x partybox 1000, unless you are a dj or expect to do events buy the EON 715. I have 2 PB1000 and 1 EON 715 I use them in parties and actually for personal use I would not even suggest buy any, all of them are way too powerful and you get "tired" of hearing them. Also PB1000 have integrated subwoofer which really shake the houses, they can go very very low.
Depends on what kind of feature set is important to you. Do you want great wireless capability? Sound ducking? Anti-feedback? App control? The Eon wins in these categories. Do you want a generally more robust and better built speaker? Are you only going to buy 1 speaker or run wired 100% of the time? Do you want a setscrew for your speaker stand? 🤣 The ZLX wins in these categories. It depends on what you're looking for. Use my links in the video description to purchase either of the speakers you're looking for.
@@davidarko personally, I'm more of a fan of the ZLX's sound. I think with the JBL app, the Eon can be fine tuned to what you want with highs/lows/bass boost, but the resonance of the heavier cabinet of the ZLX makes it sound more impressive. That's a subjective opinion so someone with a better ear than me may disagree, but that's my take on it.
These are very different products. Are you wanting to be a pro DJ and plan to buy lights, a facade, maybe a bass speaker? Get the eons. Do you want to just have a fun time DJing at your friends house party? Maybe get the partybox. The party box isn't made for large events. If you can't put it on a speaker stand, you won't get the sound distribution you want.
If you are using cables, yes. You can connect a JBL speaker to any other powered speaker. You'll want to use either a balanced XLR cable or a balanced 1/4" TRS connector. Wirelessly, using the JBL connect app, I don't believe so. If you are just trying to connect two speakers to an audio sorce via Bluetooth, you ca buy a Bluetooth transmitter that can connect to more than one device. I believe I have a link to one in my video description.
please i have a question another question if you can ans.......... me . if i have two different passive speaker can i connect them together ? sec , if i have two different amp........... can i connect them together ?
You can buy a bundle that will usually save you a little money, but they do not normally come in pairs. My bundle included two speakers, two stands, and two audio cables.
sounds like they are not as good as the previous 615's. Less handles, no speaker stand grub screw, disappointing control system that seems fiddly and not as intuitive. I don't like the green light on the front that can't be easily switched off. All over not as good for the extra money.
I would say that if you have a sub, you can probably step down one speaker size. So if you want to play large 400+ person venues, you can get away with a sub and the 12"
had to return mine because I can't put it in the standard so it doesn't fall that's the only thing I think jbl ble was missing to but it sounds good😒😒😒😓
have three but I was missing one so I had to buy two to have the complete pairs but they do not work for me, I hope and JBL will make a new design so that they do not move much.
