Thanks to all again for your comments but somehow this thread got diverted away from it's original intent. I'm not sure why a few of you are talking about recording. Yes I am slowly building a home studio and yes I want an upgrade on the speakers in the room, and yes I am recording my bass. But the only involvement that my speakers (soon to be studio monitors) have in the recording process is that they allow me to hear the music that I am playing along with. Headphones or earbuds could serve the same purpose but I want good quality monitors for that purpose.

[Perhaps it's not understanding the recording process that I'm using that is causing confusion here. I am NOT using mics when I record, neither am I planning to plug my bass into a monitor. Rather, I am sending the XLR output from my bass amp to Input #1 of the Tascam 208i interface with Audacity playing the MP3 file I'm jamming to while recording my bass playing in real-time simultaneously. I'm sure this is childs-play for those that do this sort of thing. Before anybody suggests RealBand, I've spent significant time here on another post to get RealBand to work without success and can't justify any more time on that now (I suspect the culprit is a Windows and/or a RealBand setting somewhere). At this time Audacity does all I need and the recorded bass tones are good plus I do have bass/treble/High-pass/Low-Pass in Audacity should I need it. I realize that Audacity is limited and is not even a real DAW but it meets my needs and setting-up a recording session and processing and mixing the result requires less than 4 minutes; I've made dozens of recordings this way, works like a charm. Plus, the learning curves for full-featured DAWs are too significant for me to justify. I'd rather spend my time having fun with BiaB. I can see how confusion can creep in as this stuff can get complicated, in fact, my setup is a tad more involved in that I'm also able to send audio from my Windows 10 computer to tower speakers elsewhere in the house that are driven by a stereo receiver.]

. . . back to the monitors. I'm settling on the JBLs and fully expect them to replace both the cheap computer speakers I'm currently using and the small bass amp now connected to the Korg keyboard. In other words, all room audio (with the exception of my bass amp) will soon be sent to the JBLs with the Tascam interface as the central hub which has 4 XLR inputs and 8 TRS outputs; plenty for my needs.

Again, thanks to all who took the time to join this discussion, for those not yet recording and seek a simple way to do it hopefully this will be useful to you.

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