Harman JBL speakers bring audio to US presidential debates.

JBL speakers, Harman Group brand, They have been present in the three presidential debates that have faced the president of the United States and candidate for re-election, Barack Obama, and his rival, Mitt Romney, and Nevada, New York and Florida.

The audio rental system provider, On Stage Audio, has supplied speakers JBL VRX Constant Curvature for use in the three presidential debates between the US president. and Democratic candidate for re-election, Barack Obama, and his Republican rival, Mitt Romney, and in the vice president debate between Joe Biden and Paul Ryan. The presidential debates took place at the University of Denver, he 4 October, at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, he 16 October, and at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida, he 22 October. While, The vice-presidential debate took place on 11 October at Center College in Danville, Kentucky.

The audio system for each event was maintained in the different locations, with JBL VRX932LA portable line arrays arranged in groups of two in left-center-right configurations, with two additional delay loads with two VRX932LA speakers each. Crown I-Tech 4x3500HD amplifiers powered the system, with processing carried out by a dbx SC32.

Larry Estrin served as Director of Audio Communications and Production for the Presidential Debates Commission, supervising the audio/video systems for each event. “High-profile events like the presidential debates leave zero margin for error when it comes to the audio reinforcement system, it is imperative that the system runs smoothly. Just as happened in the debates four years ago, JBL speakers have once again delivered reliable, high-quality sound”, Estrin has pointed out.

While On Stage Audio supplied similar audio system equipment for each of the three locations, JBL's ability to provide diverse speakers for different needs has helped overcome the acoustic challenges that could arise in each location. “The JBL VRX speaker combination, Crown amplifiers and dbx processing offered us a consistent, high-performance audio system that we have been able to deploy in several different environments.”, Jim Riskin explained, vice president of On Stage Audio.