The Best Speakers for Your Home Gym
So, to clarify, you will have to buy two JBL Partybox Encore Essential speakers for stereo sound. JBL makes it easy to pair two of these speakers with two button presses, giving you a left and a right speaker. You then connect the speakers to your equipment through Bluetooth wireless. These speakers are designed for parties, including multicolored LED lights that can be set to different colors to create a vibe when they are playing. This can be fun while you are doing a Peloton ride with Robin Arzon or just jamming to music while you workout.
They are super simple to use, have a 6-hour battery life, and are splash resistant. You can take them on a trip or to the pool.
Two of these playing will easily project well over any equipment you have running and have enough bass to fill a small exercise room.
For those of you fitness junkies who also happen to be audiophiles, these are the powered speakers for your home gym. Klipsch The Sevens have 1” Titanium tweeters with Tractrix horns combined with a 6.5” woofer. Like most powered speaker systems, the right speaker has all of the electronics in it, including all of the inputs and the amplifiers. In addition to Bluetooth, you also get HDMI-Arc, optical, USB, and analog RCA inputs. The HDMI-Arc is very useful if you use the Peloton app and stream workouts from your phone or tablet, as it enables you to control the volume of your workout via one remote.
One big advantage of higher performance powered speakers like these is designers can use active electronic crossovers so each driver in each speaker receives only the exact frequencies matched up to that driver.
Like all of the speakers in this video, you can flip a switch and change which speaker is the primary, in case anything you connect to is closer to one speaker than the other. They support high-res audio with 24bit/192hz resolution.
If you’ve ever wanted to put a great hifi system into your home, but never had the right place for it, this is your shot. These speakers combine all of the components of an audiophile-grade hifi system into the speakers and combine them with super high performance speaker drivers. The end result is nothing short of spectacular.
Like Klipsch The Sevens and The Nines, the JBL 4305P and 4329P powered speakers use the same inputs and electronics, but the 4329P speakers are larger. The 4305P uses a 1” compression driver with a high-definition imaging horn combined with a 5.25” Pure-pulp Black Paper Cone Woofer with a Cast-frame.
The 4329P powered speakers include a slightly better 1-inch compression driver and features a larger 8” woofer. It’s important to understand the level of components JBL included in these speakers. These speakers use digital to analog converters, called DACs, to convert the digital audio stream to the analog you hear with audiophile grade 24bit/192khz resolution.
You pick up a few key features with the higher-priced JBL powered speakers. Like the Partybox speakers, each speaker has its own electrical plug. Unlike the Klipsch models, they can be connected wirelessly so you don’t have to run cables connecting them.
That said, you can connect them using an ethernet cable, which is included, to step up the resolution from 24bit/96k to 24bit/192k.
These speakers measure incredibly well with flat frequency response across the spectrum, producing a neutral sound with totally controlled massive power. The JBLs have such great controlled dispersion that the left and right speakers can be placed either narrow or very wide, depending on how your home gym is set up.
With all that said, the JBL powered speakers don’t come with an HDMI-arc connection. You can connect them through an optical cable, but that means another remote on your stationary bike’s pedestal or treadmill. These come in both black and walnut finishes.
