JBL Stage A130 Review (speaker)

[CardiganB]

Absolute polarity can be slightly audible but not night and day. Take a look at this thread:

Absolute Polarity - Myth or "Important"?

Hello :) this one was kinda eye opening for me once i got it (because 95-99% of people say its NOT in any way important) and i just would like to share my test method with you to look for correct absolute polarity (so the polarity of all speakers at once, not just one speaker reversed) and...

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One issue is that many recordings have it wrong as well.
(If I misunderstood and you only changed polarity on one speaker, that is definitely audible, there is a right and wrong way, and the thread I referenced is not relevant.)

Absolute polarity can be slightly audible but not night and day. Take a look at this thread:

Absolute Polarity - Myth or "Important"?

Hello :) this one was kinda eye opening for me once i got it (because 95-99% of people say its NOT in any way important) and i just would like to share my test method with you to look for correct absolute polarity (so the polarity of all speakers at once, not just one speaker reversed) and...

www.audiosciencereview.com

One issue is that many recordings have it wrong as well.
(If I misunderstood and you only changed polarity on one speaker, that is definitely audible, there is a right and wrong way, and the thread I referenced is not relevant.)

Thanks but wrong on both counts. A130 are good with polarity one way and astonishing the other way. And I made the switch at both speakers so user error is not even possible considering that the performance did not diminish, or stay the same....it improved, and I verified using three amps, two cd players, and two sets of speaker cables.

 

[Levi]

Did anyone provide an EQ based on Erin's data?

 

[Erici]

Did anyone provide an EQ based on Erin's data?

There are 2 on the spinorama.org site. Pierre has done a amazing job compiling data on a large number of speakers!

Anechoic EQ for loudspeakers

www.spinorama.org

Scroll down to the A130

 

[CardiganB]

The answer to your question is that A130 Stage were sold with a phase error, easily corrected at the binding posts. I know it sucks when the obvious solution is overlooked but yeah, it's really that simple.