What speakers do you like and why?

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These are the speakers I own and love the way they sound

DAS Audio Vantec
12A with 18A subs
15A with 18A subs

I also like
EV Evolve 50


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DAS always sounded nice when I heard them at shows .. no where around me to hear them.
 
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I like the clarity that EV brings to the table. The mids and highs seem to be very intelligible and clear and smooth. At least with the T252's I have ran for the past 20 years. I prefer passive over powered but both have pro's and con's. Used passive gear is becoming very cheap because everyone is going powered. I have been all EV for a long time and I've been very happy with it.
 
I really like my RCF Evox system as a wedding solution. For bigger gigs, my Pioneer XPRS lineup sounds lovely on top. I'd love to have BassBoss subs, but I can't really justify them given the work that I do regularly. But RCF also has tops and subs that I'd be happy with if I were to sell the Pios.

If I'm moving into dreamland on stuff that I really enjoy the sound of... I've never heard anything personally that sounds better in a club than a Funktion One system. We have a couple of clubs here that have them, and that's what's inside Premier at the Borgata up in AC.
 
I recently did a rave gig where the house PA was all JBL and my system that was all EV.
I had a lot of complements on how clear and clean the EV's were when running side by side with the JBL stuff.
It's that side by side comparison that really shows the sound quality and points out the differences.
 
I like the sound (and weight) of my RCF EVOX 8. My JBL PRX612 set sound fine, a little sterile, but they are accurate and less "colored", so they work real well as a live sound speaker.

My best sounding setup was my Yorkville Unity system .. the subs were really smooth and the 3-way tops (15" low bass, 3 separate 5" mid drivers and a compression driver on a large unity horn) sounded phenomenal. Not the best for a dance floor, as the unity horn and the horn loaded subs needed a good 10 feet or so for everything to come together, so not as great up close .. that and 185 pounds per side without amps became a bit too much for my back. Tri-amped, they sounded awesome (QSC PLX3602, 3102 and 2502) .. I wish I had the room to keep it all ...
 
Gemini As-10!!!!! :headbang:

Best Value DJ Speaker ever! $40, and they are A THOUSAND watts. You can book $3,000 DJ gigs every weekend with just a pair of these and a sweet Gemini 5000 Power Amp, and make so much money!





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Gemini As-10!!!!! :headbang:

Best Value DJ Speaker ever! $40, and they are A THOUSAND watts. You can book $3,000 DJ gigs every weekend with just a pair of these and a sweet Gemini 5000 Power Amp, and make so much money!





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$40 bucks for a speaker that can handle 1000 watts? You drank the cool aid didn't you.
 
Because we live in it, it is very easy to forget that "air" has a significant amount of mass. Big boy stuff, like the Yorkville Unity, and even bigger boy stuff, like Funktion One, take advantage of this fact due to their shear size, which yields much better acoustic coupling. It is easy to wiggle a 3" x 5" index card in the air, much harder to wiggle a 4' x 8' sheet of plywood. Can a small, easily portable system produce a 20Hz- 20KHz frequency response? Yes it can. Can a small, easily portable system produce a 20Hz-20Khz frequency response at a reasonably loud level and with low distortion? No, it can not. No matter how hard you blow into a Kazoo, it will never sound like the low note in Bach's Toccata and Fugue in d minor (unless of course the Kazoo was made by Alto and blown by Mix).
 
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Because we live in it, it is very easy to forget that "air" has a significant amount of mass. Big boy stuff, like the Yorkville Unity, and even bigger boy stuff, like Funktion One, take advantage of this fact due to their shear size, which yields much better acoustic coupling. It is easy to wiggle a 3" x 5" index card in the air, much harder to wiggle a 4' x 8' sheet of plywood. Can a small, easily portable system produce a 20Hz- 20KHz frequency response? Yes it can. Can a small, easily portable system produce a 20Hz-20Khz frequency response at a reasonably loud level and with low distortion? No, it can not. No matter how hard you blow into a Kazoo, it will never sound like the low note in Bach's Toccata and Fugue in d minor (unless of course the Kazoo was made by Alto and blown by Mix).

Yes getting low frequency's at a high enough volume to be useful in a large system is the hard part. You have to move a massive amount of air to do that. Most music doesn't even go down to 20hz and those that do, it's not really musical, just noise. Feeling it and hearing it is not the same. Most instruments can't even get close to 20hz except for electronic music.
Base is like the salt on a good stake, it's not necessary but it does bring out the flavor and make it pop!
 
I personally like a huge variety of speakers, setup randomly in a park. To me, that sounds best.
I can believe it. Anybody remember the "Sweet 16" DIY loudspeaker published in Popular Electronics 1961? Scroll a bit down -

A further improvement was to not use 16 identical drivers, but a "mix and match" approach of drivers from different manufacturers, and with different parameters, so for example, they didn't all have the same F/s. My point - I would think widely spaced (to minimize interference patterns) different speakers could sound very good.

For those who will ask about the 901 look-a-like, this was done 3 years before Bose existed as a corporation, and 7 years before the first Bose 901. The picture is the back of the speaker, which would go up against the wall (just like a 901), and gave an excellent, wide spread stereo image from a single enclosure.
 
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