JBL Venue Series Stage 6-Inch 3-Way Speaker

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Product Details

• Item Weight: 35 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 42 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000FBPHA2
• Item model number: STAGE
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #46,137 in Electronics (See Bestsellers in Electronics)

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• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 18, 2006

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Part of JBL's Venue Series, the JBL Stage speaker is a premium floorstanding loudspeaker that produces great sound. With a frequency response ranging from 47 Hz to 20 kHz, a sensitivity of 90 db, and a continuous power handling of 80 watts (peaking at 320 watts), the Stage speaker gives you clear, accurate audio for your home theater, whether you're listening to music or video dialogue. Featuring a 3/4-inch titanium-laminated tweeter, a 4-inch PolyPlas midrange, and an 6-inch PolyPlas woofer, the Stage speaker uses the Elliptical Oblate Spheroidal (EOS) waveguide to ensure quality sound anywhere in the room. Equipped with a FreeFlow flared port to increase bass response, the Stage speaker gives you notes that are clear and distortion-free.

Product Description

The Venue Series Stage floorstanding loudspeaker delivers superb audio, whether used for critical listening in a stereo system, or combined with a Voice center channel, bookshelf surrounds and a subwoofer to create a home theater system. Stage performs like a pro, with technology developed by JBL's Professional division. Equipped with JBL's tried-and-true titanium-laminate tweeters and PolyPlas drivers, the speaker reproduces the high notes with extreme clarity. The lows and mids, assisted by the FreeFlow flared port, are loud and clear, without unwanted distortion or boominess. The Elliptical Oblate Spheroidal (EOS) waveguide ensures that every seat is the best seat in the house for sweet music and intelligible dialogue, or for just rocking out.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not bad for the money, but not first rate either, July 24, 2007

By	S. J. Simmer (St. Paul MN) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I bought these speakers to complement my home theater system - my old EPI's had expired. As front speakers for home theater, where you can supplement base with a sub-woofer and voice with a center channel, these are very adequate. However, for pure music listening I would recommend going a step or two up. A primary attribute of great speakers is "presence", where the listener is aware that there is music in the room, but not aware of the speakers. With these, I am always aware of the speakers - which I believe is caused by overly bright highs that give a slightly unnatural cast to the sound. My old speakers had presence, but alas; I cannot afford the thousand bucks or so it would take to replace them with speakers of equal quality.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bang on a budget, July 21, 2006

By	Justin R. Mattern (CT) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is Jbl's entry level front channel speaker. It is a great deal. The bass is very nice (I actually won't be buying a sub) and the sound reproduction is very clear. Haven't gotten to volume test this yet since I set it up at 11:00 PM but everything so far has been GREAT. I love the sound from these.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Surprising sound from a smaller floor speaker, May 17, 2007

By	Austin K. Rotter (Prescott, AZ) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

While JBL's speaker performance hasn't been quite as awe inspiring as the products from companies like paradigm and definitive technology, they have still produced quality speakers to those that don't desire to empty their lifesavings on recreational music listening and movie watching. I have used that spiel before in my review for the JBL stadium, but I liked it so I used it again.

With that said, I use these speakers as my rear surrounds and find myself still outwardly giddy about the purchase. Having experienced the sound of the stadiums I figured "why not?" for the surrounds. Needing to fill the void of sound at the back of my room I went out and bought some 4' wire shelves (to raise the sound to a height that would be above a person's ears when seated) and placed these speakers up on their respective pedestals.

For my testing I hooked up my computer to my Harmon Kardon receiver via toslink (optical) and messed around with the soundstage on several demanding songs and video clips. On lower volumes bass presence is well accomplished, louder volumes however prove to be too demanding for the unamplified little 6" speaker (no surprise). Midrange is always full, and can be a little overpowering, but to the normal user at more acceptable volumes, you'll never have problems. I have always enjoyed JBL's tweeters, you get a much fuller sound stage than the "sweet spot" creating horn designs, and for the price range you will not find better high end frequency performance.

The speaker's sensitivity (for those who don't already know) is the ability for the speaker to take an electrical signal and turn it to recognizable sound. The higher the sensitivity, the louder volume you get with less wattage per channel. Luckily these speakers don't require much power so no thousand-plus dollar amplifier is required so those 100-400 dollar best-buy receivers work just fine. Plus you'll never need to worry about blowing a speaker as receivers turn off on their own when they push too much current (A plague all too many of us home theater owners have to deal with). Don't like it? Go buy a preamp, a few amps and speakers that can handle 300 watts each and 5000-plus dollars later problem solved (until you look at your movie theater style electric bill).

Again I would have liked to have seen biwiring capabilities, but the speakers still reproduce sound very well. And, I must say that the silver grills look really nice but good luck trying to match it with anything else in the room that isn't black. The easiest way to rectify this little problem is to just take them off, the speakers look awesome without them anyway (Which is probably why every picture you see online has the grills off).

Anyway I'll stop now. For those looking for a modest home theater I would certainly suggest these as main (Front)speakers. They performed better than I had expected and only require a subwoofer to help assist with bass representation.