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Speakers for my basement
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| PVD fanatic |
| 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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| WeasiL |
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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| PVD fanatic |
| quote: | | 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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| WeasiL |
| 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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| Dave Piazza |
Electro Voice Powered Speakers.
JBL Powered Subs.
This is what I have :D |
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| MERiDiAN5i2 |
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. |
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