I wanted to get some speakers to play and my basement and also take w/ me to parties. DOes anyone have a suggestion for a good brand? a good model ?? I'd prefer something smaller, portable, but of good quality. Are there speakers that can just plug straight into my mixer ??? Or do i need an amp or something ?? thansk for any help.

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if your looking for something thats small portable and active check out the mackie srm450's. I bought a pair of these to bring with me as monitors and have been more then happy. great quality sound. i probably wouldnt use them as mains, at least not alone anyway, only because they dont have the low end you may be looking for. might want to consider a sub to go along with them.

i also heard some good things about the jbl eon's. never listened them personally though

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if your looking for something thats small portable and active check out the mackie srm450's. I bought a pair of these to bring with me as monitors and have been more then happy. great quality sound. i probably wouldnt use them as mains, at least not alone anyway, only because they dont have the low end you may be looking for. might want to consider a sub to go along with them.

so these mackie srm450's... there speakers, not monitors?? Do they plus right into ur mixer ??? and where would the sub plug into? these mackies ??? sorry i know nothing on pro audio equipment.... thanks for ur help....

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well mackie calls them monitors but they can easily be used as mains as they are quite powerfull for their size....its a 2 way speaker with a 12inch woofer. yes they are active speakers so you can just plug it in via an xlr cable directly to your mixer. if you wanted to get a matching sub it basically just gets daisy chained into the existing setup. check out mackie's site

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SRM450's are bi-amplified two way active cabinets.

They use RCF drivers (both low and high are RCF components) and are a plastic-cased speaker.

450's are not bass-heavy, they are very much a flat speaker. They are the ideal combination between a monitor and PA speaker.

You get the flat smooth response of a monitor, with the loudness, sensitivity and long-throw handling of a PA speaker.

They provide 300 watts to the low freq driver, and another 150 to the high-freq horn. The amps and active crossover are both built into the speaker.

They have XLR and AC power inputs, and connect directly to a mixer.

They can be used with the mackie SRS1500, SWA1501 or SWA1801 active subwoofers, or with other active or passive subwoofers with the appropriate cables and/or equiptment.

I use the unpowered (passive) version (Mackie C300) which is the same cabinet minus the amps. they are *great* mid-high cabs with very clear highs and clean unbiased midrange.

a single 18" subwoofer running ~500watts below each SRM450 will make them sound like a really nice rig.