SaferProducts incident

Failure type

Fire / ignition

Incident narrative

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20260501-412B2-2147319878. Severity: Incident, No Injury. Product: JBL Bar 2.1 (JBL Bar 2.1. 2.1 channel soundbar with wireless subwoofer.). Incident: My wife and I were in bed when my wife smelled smoke. She woke me and we traced the smoke to a JBL 2.1 bass soundbar subwoofer located in the corner of our living room, behind the wedge part of our sectional sofa. The subwoofer was not in use at the time (but it had been earlier in the evening) and had visible smoke coming from the bass tube located on the side of the subwoofer. I grabbed the subwoofer to unplug it and the bass speaker, which is located on the underside of the subwoofer box, was vibrating in and out extremely fast. I took the entire speaker box to the garage and pulled the bass speaker to see if there was an active fire or only smoldering. Luckily, the unit was only smoldering. The speaker magnet was extremely hot to the touch, checked at 139 degrees Fahrenheit with a digital temperature gun. The coil that drives the speaker was also discolored from the heat. There is no doubt that the speaker would have caught fire very soon if not found at that time. As a side note, there was a power outage from a storm the night before. Could it have caused an issue with the speaker? I have several videos from my wife and son that shows much of the above event.