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.

Along with the 500 Series, we have the sub. In fact, that's the back of it. We can look over here and we can see the front of it, which is probably a little bit more interesting. This is an 18", 500-watt powered subwoofer with input utility, being able to have a stereo input with mono summing back to the sub so you can have this mono sub and two stereo satellite speakers. It also accepts a speaker-level input, so if you're running passive speakers at the top then you can take that and you can daisy chain that down into the powered sub. So, in a nutshell, that's our 500, EON500 Series, more power, more performance, lighter weight, more portable.