Las Vegas, NV—Palms Casino Resort—January 5, 2017—JL Audio, maker of high-end audio solutions, unveiled a new series of ultra-premium component speakers, designed for car audio systems. According to the company, the introduction of C7 has been highly anticipated and will further solidify the JL Audio brand as a maker of full-range car speakers.

The C7 project was led by CEO and Chief Engineer, Lucio Proni, with a mission to create the finest-ever JL Audio component speakers. To achieve this, he established clear performance goals and assigned the engineering resources necessary to specify and develop each C7 speaker as a clean-sheet design.

“C7 is an expression of our commitment to achieving the best reproduction possible in the car audio environment. These component speakers are the natural complement to our W6v3 and W7AE subwoofer drivers, and they offer listeners a level of fidelity and dynamic capability that is truly special.” said Lucio Proni, CEO and Chief Engineer.

The C7 component woofer’s dust cap went through ten prototype generations before arriving at the solution that resulted in the smoothest response and the best mechanical integrity. These details, and hundreds of others like them, simply had to be perfect for Mr. Proni and the design team to be satisfied.

You will not find a passive crossover network in the C7 line. This is a completely deliberate omission. The designers assumed that systems built with C7 speakers would avoid technical compromises, so they designed the C7 speakers with active crossovers in mind. These duties will typically be handled by a high quality DSP, such as JL Audio’s TwK™ 88, or D8.

Using JL Audio’s guidelines for C7 setup as a starting point, the power of a DSP can be used to optimize the performance of the C7 speaker system to its specific application. The system designer can use delay, crossover parameters and precise equalization to adjust for speaker placement, cabin acoustics and target response.

In the end, all these efforts lead to a spectacular musical presentation, easily exceeding the performance boundaries of typical, high-end, car audio speaker systems.

Component Driver Models

C7-650cw:

Continuous Power Handling: 125 Watts

Recommended Amplifier Power: 50-175 Watts per channel (RMS)

Efficiency: 87.0 dB @ 1W/1m | 93.0 dB @ 1W/0.5m

Sensitivity: 90.0 dB @ 2.83V/1m

Nominal Impedance: 4 ohm

Design Bandwidth: 50 Hz - 5 kHz

Built in USA, with global components

Component Woofer Features:

• Vacuum-formed, mineral-filled polypropylene cone with gentle curvilinear profile and proprietary dust cap

• Positive roll, rubber surround

• 1.27 in. (32 mm) diameter overhung voice coil with a fiberglass former

• Linear profile, Nomex®/polycotton blend spider

• Patented Elevated Frame Cooling technology 

• High-grade, Y35 Strontium-ferrite magnet with a specially machined T-Yoke

• Sold individually, with a cast-alloy grille tray and a specially perforated steel grille insert.

C7-350cm:

Continuous Power Handling: 100 Watts

Recommended Amplifier Power: 50-150 Watts per channel (RMS)

Efficiency: 86.5 dB @ 1W/1m | 92.5 dB @ 1W/0.5m

Sensitivity: 89.5 dB @ 2.83V/1m

Nominal Impedance: 4 ohm

Design Bandwidth: 300 Hz - 10 kHz

Built in USA, with global components

Component Midrange Features:

• Vacuum-formed, mineral-filled polypropylene cone with gentle curvilinear profile and concave dust cap

• Positive roll, rubber surround

• 1.42 in. (36 mm) diameter overhung voice coil with a fiberglass former

• Linear profile, Nomex®/polycotton blend spider

• Purposed-engineered cast alloy basket 

• Neodymium magnet with a specially machined U-Yoke

• Sold individually, with a cast-alloy grille tray and a specially perforated steel grille insert.

C7-100ct:

Continuous Power Handling: 100 Watts

Recommended Amplifier Power: 50-150 Watts per channel (RMS)

Efficiency: 86.5 dB @ 1W/1m | 92.5 dB @ 1W/0.5m

Sensitivity: 89.5 dB @ 2.83V/1m

Nominal Impedance: 4 ohm

Design Bandwidth: 3 kHz - 30 kHz

Tweeter Features:

• Corundum ceramic coated, aluminum alloy diaphragm

• Treated silk, s-roll surround, with Ferrofluid damped rear magnetic gap

• Under-hung voice coil with an aluminum former

• Specific bandwidth boosting, cavity-back tweeter housing

• Neodymium magnet with a specially machined U-Yoke

• Sold individually, with flush and surface mounting fixtures and hardware. One tweeter protection capacitor is also included.

MSRP USD:

C7-650cw: $449.99/ea.

C7-350cm: $349.99/ea.

C7-100ct: $199.99/ea.

Availability:  May, 2017

Additional mobile product introductions for 2017 include value priced C1 coaxial and component speaker systems, additional amplifier models in the JX and MX series, new Stealthbox® subwoofer system models, and additions to the ECS connection products.