Hollywood’s cinema standard. In your home.
The reference speaker system trusted by professional screening rooms — now available in architecturally discreet, in-wall form.
The sound of a dedicated screening room, built into the architecture.
JBL Synthesis was built for the world’s most demanding listening environments — mixing rooms, reference theaters, and mastering suites where accuracy is not optional. The residential line brings that same engineering into the home, using in-wall and in-ceiling drivers that disappear into the architecture while delivering the kind of performance most rooms never experience.
Every Synthesis system is a complete, pre-engineered package: matched speakers, dedicated amplification, signal processing, and a factory onsite calibration visit. Nothing is left to guesswork. HTE designs the room around the system and coordinates every aspect of the installation from rough-in to first screening.
Pre-engineered. Factory-certified. Ready for your room.
JBL Synthesis systems are calibrated at the factory level, not just installed and handed off. Each system ships as a matched set — speakers, amplification, and signal processing designed to work together — and a JBL technician visits the room after installation to measure, calibrate, and certify performance. It’s a level of precision most residential theater systems never receive.
Every room has a system.
Extra Large Room
13.8.12
System Alpha — Flagship
12 × SCL5 Height · 8 × SSW1 Dual-drive 15” Sub
SDP75-32 · 15 × SMA4750
Large Room
11.4.8
System 1
8 × SCL5 Height · 4 × SSW2 Dual-12” Sub
SDP75-24 · 7 × SMA4750
Large Room
9.4.6
System 2
6 × SCL5 Height · 4 × SSW2 Dual-12” Sub
SDP75-24 · 6 × SMA4750
Medium to Large Room
7.4.4
System 3
4 × SCL5 Height · 4 × SSW3 Dual-10” Sub
SDP58 · 2 × SMA8300 + SMA4750
Medium Room
7.4.4
System 4
4 × SCL8 Height · 4 × SSW3 Dual-10” Sub
SDP58 · 2 × SMA8300 + SMA4750
Small to Medium Room
7.4.4
System 5
4 × SCL8 Height · 4 × SSW4 Dual-8” Sub
SDR38 · SDA7120 + 2 × SDA1700
Small Room
5.2.2
System 6
2 × SCL8 Height · 4 × SSW4 Dual-8” Sub
SDR38 · 2 × SDA1700
Not sure which system fits?
| Room Size | Volume | Typical Footprint | System |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small | Up to 5,300 ft³ | 15 × 15 ft — 8 ft ceiling | System 6 |
| Small–Medium | 5,300 – 8,000 ft³ | 17 × 20 ft — 9 ft ceiling | System 5 |
| Medium | 5,300 – 12,360 ft³ | 20 × 25 ft — 9 ft ceiling | Systems 3–4 |
| Large | 12,360 – 19,425 ft³ | 30 × 35 ft — 9 ft ceiling | Systems 1–2 |
| Extra Large | 19,425 ft³ + | Estate screening room | System Alpha |
Room volume is a starting point. Ceiling height, geometry, acoustic treatment, and listening position all shape which system performs best in a given space. HTE accounts for all of it before a single speaker is specified.
Start with the room.
Tell us what you’re designing and how you want it to feel. We’ll take it from there.