Jbl Stage 260csa – 2 Way 6.5 Inches Angled In-ceiling Speaker (each)

JBL Stage 260CSA – 6.5-Inch Coaxial In-Ceiling Speaker

The JBL Stage 260CSA is a professional coaxial in-ceiling speaker designed for commercial and residential distributed audio installations where high-quality background music, foreground music, and paging applications demand reliable, consistent acoustic performance. Part of JBL’s Stage series – a range designed to bridge the gap between consumer and commercial audio – the 260CSA delivers JBL’s professional acoustic expertise in a ceiling-mount format suitable for restaurants, retail environments, hospitality venues, corporate offices, and multi-room home audio systems. The 6.5-inch woofer and coaxially mounted tweeter combine to produce a smooth, balanced frequency response appropriate for speech and music reproduction in a wide variety of installation environments.

Coaxial Driver Design for Uniform Coverage

The coaxial driver configuration of the 260CSA positions the 1-inch titanium dome tweeter at the geometric centre of the 6.5-inch woofer, ensuring that both high and low frequencies originate from the same point in space. This point-source behaviour means that the transition between the woofer and tweeter frequency ranges is acoustically seamless, with no spatial separation between drivers that would cause comb filtering and off-axis colouration. The result is consistent frequency response across a wide listening area beneath the speaker, which is critical in commercial installations where multiple customers or occupants will be listening from different positions relative to each speaker.

Wide Dispersion for Commercial Coverage

The 260CSA provides a wide and consistent 100-degree conical dispersion pattern, ensuring that each speaker covers a substantial area of the floor plan below it without creating a narrow hotspot of coverage directly beneath the speaker. This wide dispersion characteristic is fundamental to achieving even coverage in commercial installations, where the number of speakers required to fill a space is determined by each speaker’s coverage angle. The smooth roll-off at the coverage boundary eliminates the abrupt transitions between adjacent speakers’ coverage zones that would create audible brightness variations as a listener moves through the space.

Commercial Installation Features

The 260CSA includes a 70V/100V transformer tap for connection to commercial constant-voltage distribution systems, which are the standard in multi-zone commercial audio installations because they allow multiple speakers to be connected to a single amplifier output run without impedance matching issues. A low-impedance direct connection is also available for residential installations using conventional 4-8 ohm amplification. The spring-loaded dog-leg mounting system secures the speaker in ceiling tiles or plasterboard without visible hardware, and the paintable white grille sits flush with the ceiling surface for a professional, architecturally integrated appearance.