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jbl stage a130 upgrade tips

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I would like to upgrade my JBL Stage A130 speakers for my studio. I would like some advice from the more experienced.
 
I would like to upgrade my JBL Stage A130 speakers for my studio. I would like some advice from the more experienced.
I’ll ask the usual questions so everybody can give more targeted advice.

1. What are you looking to improve upon that the A130s are lacking?
2. Budget?
3. What are your use conditions?
4. Where are you located?
 
1. Cosa stai cercando di migliorare che manca agli A130?
2. Budget?
3. Quali sono le tue condizioni d'uso?
4. Dove ti trovi?
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The JBLs have no particular problems, they are equalized according to what Amir recommended in the review. The JBL stage A130s are used in my second studio system, together with a REGAIO and an SMS D-6s. Before the D-6s I also used a subwoofer, today I use it less and less. It's a Velodyne minivee First I used the DAC of my Mac Mini M2, then I added (in November) an SMSL D-6s, which gave fantastic energy to the REGA IO, and also gave a nice punch to the JBLs making them sound full on the low frequencies, so 'is that I've abandoned my subwoofer (or at least I don't feel much need to keep it on). I'll explain the situation in more detail: I use the volume control directly from the REGA IO, setting the player and DAC volume to maximum, and listen at a distance of 1.40 meters from my desk. The speakers are positioned on 80cm stands, so I have the tweeter axis in correspondence with my ears. The listening environment is a room of around 17 square metres, with a sloping roof (attic) and an average height of around 2 metres, with two windows on the long sides of the room. Coming to the point, without the D-6s, I have to raise the REGA IO knob to 3 o'clock to get 63 dBA, while with the DAC I reach 7 o'clock (not even a quarter of the REGA IO knob) to get 67 dBA. In the range up to 85 dBA I feel that these speakers are fantastic, they manage to give me a lot even below 30 Hz thanks to the size of the room. When I go above 85 dBA (with high resolution songs for impromptu listening at high volume), I feel like I'm missing something in the high frequencies. The JBLs are equalized as Amir recommended (I would make it Santo immediately if it were possible), if I touch the equalization I can't find a significant improvement.

2:

I would like to stay around 1000 euros, but the real problem is finding a speaker for which you have certain measurements and certain equalizations, so as to avoid going crazy doing tests and counter-tests... I use the foobar2000 EQ.

4:

I live in Italy
 
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