SIMON JONES: Hi. My name is Simon Jones. I'm the director of portable PA marketing for JBL professional. We're here today at the AES 2008 introducing the new generation of EON products. The new generation, I got to tell you a little bit about the previous generations.

In 1995, we launched the EON product. It was revolutionary. It was innovative, and it defined a new product category: the molded or composite enclosure, integrated powered loudspeaker system, and we've been doing that for 14 years and have had an incredible amount of success with that. There was a revision about eight years ago when we upped the power level and we added some features on the input section, and we called it EON G2. But AES, we're launching the next generation of EON, the EON500 Series and the EON300 Series, redefining the category of molded composite powered loudspeaker systems with lighter weight, more performance, and more power.

EON is for everybody, and we want to provide those the utility and the ergonomics and durability and the overall feature set to everybody. It may be that you don't need three inputs, so we have the EON300 Series, characterized by lighter gray. This has the same number of handles on it. We use a more traditional ferrite-type JBL transducer for the motor rather than the high-tech differential drive, and we have it. It's powered by a 280-watt amplifier. You can see here the difference here. We've got one input, still mic line switchable. We have the pre-engineered EQ. It offers a different degree of utility. So, if you have the 500 Series as your mains, then you could maybe only want one input for your monitors so you'd use the EON315.