Name the worse speakers that you have owned/heard over the years.

Jeff Romard said:

I've never bought bad sounding speakers I've always had the opportunity to try before I buy but I've used some.

A friend of mine had 4 Peavey and was looking to sell them so gave them to me for a test drive. I've never been a fan of Peavey but they are generally tough speakers but these proved that wrong. I don't recall the model number but they were light passive and plastic cabs and sounded like s**t. By the end of the night I had 3/4 blown with much less power than they were rated for

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So how much did you pay for them?

GJ

@steve149-- What have you done with steve149????

GJ

Jeff Romard said:

I've never bought bad sounding speakers I've always had the opportunity to try before I buy but I've used some.

A friend of mine had 4 Peavey and was looking to sell them so gave them to me for a test drive. I've never been a fan of Peavey but they are generally tough speakers but these proved that wrong. I don't recall the model number but they were light passive and plastic cabs and sounded like s**t. By the end of the night I had 3/4 blown with much less power than they were rated for

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Sounds like you had the PR series. The impulse series with Black widow speaker drivers were very heavy even though the case plastic. I just sold a pair with 12’ woofers and those were about 45 lbs ea and were very pricey new. They same weight as the wood powered JBLs which replaced them. One thing about the old Peavey is they were very efficient and most of the BW drivers only were rated at 250 watt rms. So you could drive plenty of them with a CS 800s or CS1200 and DDT prevented clipping. But this is ancient history. I am not sure what Peavey is doing now and I really didn’t like the sound I heard at the DJTimes show I’ve heard the past 10 years

Most of the Peavey stufff was pretty good when they still built stuff in Meridian Mississippi, and the best part was it was nearly indestructible