My mistake. I meant A125C.There is no A130C. I'm guessing you mean A125C? (The only other center in the Stage line is the A135c which has six 3" woofers.)
My mistake. I meant A125C.There is no A130C. I'm guessing you mean A125C? (The only other center in the Stage line is the A135c which has six 3" woofers.)
the right one has 25 cm from the back, 35 cm from the side , left one has 25cm from the back, lots of free space from the sides , room 16m2How close are the speakers to side walls? The DBR62 can sound pretty soft (lack "liveliness" and clarity) in a small room with close proximity sidewalls because of the reflections from the ultra-wide dispersion. You can alleviate this effect if you cross the speaker axis in front of the listening position. Even so, they didn't really work in my room. The A130s work better in my room before EQ as well. Frequency response isn't everything.
Wow I bought the A130 after seeing ASR measurements and always feel there is something wrong about it.FWIW, I did a little comparison between the JBL Stage speakers and the Emotiva B1+
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No not really, infact what most receivers do is a bit destructive.Do the room correction features that the surround receivers have do the same thing as what you guys are doing with the EQ?
Stereophile measured them: https://www.stereophile.com/content/jbl-stage-a170-loudspeaker-measurements Do note, that their measurements are not as accurate as Amir's or Erin's, particularly in the bass region.sure would like to see what the A170 tower speakers measure at.
Have a look at our host's youtube channel, in particularBoy, I'm not qualified to read all those graphs. What do you guys think about the A170 towers? Should be better than the A130?
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Yes, they are at least “designed to“ adjust levels, EQ, polarity and timing/distance automatically, but many aren‘t “good enough” at doing it. A qualified human generally does a better job, with one or two very expensive exceptions. Like most automation and AI though, it’s only a matter of time and R&D $$$ before it catches up and surpasses humans’ best efforts.Do the room correction features that the surround receivers have do the same thing as what you guys are doing with the EQ?
thanks.Have a look at our host's youtube channel, in particular
Just my personal opinion based on reading reviews, but I would absolutely go for the Wharfedale 220s at that price.but anyway ref rears - current BF prices are
JBL Stage A130s are £199
Wharefedale 220 - £99 (!)
QA 3020i - £179
QA 3030i - £239
I have been wowed by the low distortion sound of the Genelecs so tempted to keep future speaker purchases to those that can cope with high volumes at low distortion as mainly used for home cinema and gaming so most tempted with the JBLs just concerned about taming the peaks - that said will be above listening position as will be used for rears
@amirrm: Any chance we could have testing results for the A125C in time to make purchase decisions by BF?Someone loaned me one for testing.
"It is suggested" perhaps but I'd rather listen to my 530s than my Stages (170 in my case) which are currently being used as speaker stands for the older speakers .Lets see, my home 5.1 entertainment audio/TV system is centered around a Denon AVR S-960H. Speakers are listed in my below Signature. It has been almost a year since I purchased the JBL Stage A130, at a sale price of $179.00/pair, from Crutchfield. Denon's auto speaker calibration, in my 12 X 10 basement HT room, watching DD movies, Netflix, and playing internet music, these speakers perform extremely well for my ears. These A130's are my FL and FR mains. For several months, I had them toed in towards my listening position and recently redirected them to be straight out. It made for better all-around surround and still have the same performance. My speaker crossovers are all set at 80HZ. The subwoofer is at 120HZ.
The JBL A130 are performers, for my application. It is suggested that the A130 is better than the old popular 530, from one independent reviewer, I recently came across.