The JBL Synthesis brand offers a wide range of complete home theater audio systems designed as complete systems to bring the sound of the best commercial movie theaters into your home. To understand how this great brand came to be, we need to look back at a bit of history.
It was way back in the 1930s when movie theater sound was becoming more about the experience that JBL got involved. The speakers designed by James B Lansing were some of the best in the day and even won an Academy Award in 1937. Later, in 1969, JBL speakers were chosen for sound at the Woodstock Music Festival.
In 1983, when LucasFilm decided to develop THX sound for commercial theaters, they chose JBL to be their partner. The next year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences selected JBL components for the new sound system in the Samuel Goldwyn Theater.
In the early 1990s, front projection systems started to emerge that enabled people to recreate the commercial movie theater experience in their homes. This was the birth of home theater. JBL looked at how they could provide the same incredible movie theater sound experience they had been doing for decades in the commercial world in people’s homes.
As a result, JBL Synthesis was born in 1992. JBL Synthesis from day one was a speaker system with amplifiers, room tuning, and surround sound processors that guaranteed the best possible sound for a residential home theater.