Hello everyone. I'm a one man band with a need for a new PA. I've used 2-ways on stands and, more recently, have gone through most of the column arrays. I like the column arrays just fine (and really want to avoid a "column pa's sound bad war). I own an LD Systems Maui 5. I borrowed a friends Harbinger mls800 this weekend to do a show. I actually like it better than the Maui.
What I know and like is this: 6 2" full range speakers and 1 8" sun at 800 watts (as advertised) is more than enough for my needs. An 8" sub in these plastic cabs give great bass for what I use it for.
What I don't like: plastic columns with proprietary connections. They are going to break. I want an Evox setup where the satellite mounts to a pole and a regular ol' speaker cable makes the connection.
I have built speaker cabs before but the column array presents a new problem and some of it is beyond my total understanding. Please avoid trying to talk me out of this. There's little that cannot be learned or done and I refuse to believe there was a huge amount of R&D that went into Harbinger's offering.
I intend to use 6 of these: Fountek FR58EX 2" Neodymium Full Range Speaker Driver
And 1 of these: Dayton Audio RSS210HF-4 8" Reference HF Subwoofer 4 Ohm
But what I cannot decide is which plate amp to use. There are 5 to chose from, all of the 800 watts bi-amped with 600w for the sub and 200 for the woofer and 200 for the compression drivers. The difference is the crossover and they are 1k, 1.5k, 2k, 2.5k & 3k.
Anyone care to point me in the right direction here? Many thanks.
What I know and like is this: 6 2" full range speakers and 1 8" sun at 800 watts (as advertised) is more than enough for my needs. An 8" sub in these plastic cabs give great bass for what I use it for.
What I don't like: plastic columns with proprietary connections. They are going to break. I want an Evox setup where the satellite mounts to a pole and a regular ol' speaker cable makes the connection.
I have built speaker cabs before but the column array presents a new problem and some of it is beyond my total understanding. Please avoid trying to talk me out of this. There's little that cannot be learned or done and I refuse to believe there was a huge amount of R&D that went into Harbinger's offering.
I intend to use 6 of these: Fountek FR58EX 2" Neodymium Full Range Speaker Driver
And 1 of these: Dayton Audio RSS210HF-4 8" Reference HF Subwoofer 4 Ohm
But what I cannot decide is which plate amp to use. There are 5 to chose from, all of the 800 watts bi-amped with 600w for the sub and 200 for the woofer and 200 for the compression drivers. The difference is the crossover and they are 1k, 1.5k, 2k, 2.5k & 3k.
Anyone care to point me in the right direction here? Many thanks.
Greets!
Maybe this will help: http://www.audioroundtable.com/misc/nflawp.pdf
Both drivers can handle the 1 kHz XO based on published specs, but the 8" will begin beaming much quicker than the 2", so off axis response will suffer if there's no waveguide [WG] to match it.
GM
Maybe this will help: http://www.audioroundtable.com/misc/nflawp.pdf
Both drivers can handle the 1 kHz XO based on published specs, but the 8" will begin beaming much quicker than the 2", so off axis response will suffer if there's no waveguide [WG] to match it.
GM
It no doubt would but I'll likely need to build the thing before I have a thorough enough understanding of all that to proceed.
The 1khx XO of what?
I've yet to see a column pa with a compensating waveguide and I have looked. Which may contribute to the bass heaviness of them. How else to compensate?
check this out Considering building a Column Speaker
post #11 contains a link to his site for more info
post #11 contains a link to his site for more info
- Status
- Not open for further replies.