JBL took a leaf out of Yamaha Stagepas’s book by having a portable PA system with a detachable mixer at the rear of one of the speakers. To be honest, I have never seen these in use by anyone before but from what I can see, it looks like a pretty hot contender. OK. Comparisons with the Yamaha is that it uses a 300 watt (150 watts per channel) Crown Class-D amplifier versus a 500 watt (250 watts per channel) Stagepas 500. The Yamaha has a 10-channel mixer and this one has an 8-channel one.The speaker designs are the same as the Stagepas, with a 10″ woofer and a 1″ horn. Like the Stagepas, this has digital effects built-in (5 effects to choose from) and has Phantom Power for powering things like active DI boxes and condenser microphones
The only thing I do not like about this is that Channel 7/8 on this is a stereo mini-jack. It does not make it versatile at all because you need to look for special cables like RCA to stereo mini-jacks. JBL says that the mixer is made by Soundcraft (another member of the Harman Group) but the design and features of the mixer could be better and more flexible. Besides, it is less powerful than the Yamaha Stagepas 500 and more expensive too.You can read more specifications here about this system here.
So if you ask me, If I had to make a choice between this EON 210p and the Yamaha Stagepas 500, I would take the Stagepas 500 over this anyday.
