Were there any dedicated folded horn sub woofers at the event? To me there was a ton of volume but not alot down low (maybe it was the music). curious thanks
Were there any dedicated folded horn sub woofers at the event? To me there was a ton of volume but not alot down low (maybe it was the music). curious thanks
leading in trailing technology
No, we didn't have any horn subs.
Sound system at SELEM was as follows:
1 pair 8 ohm NTX cabinets (singe 12" woofer, horn tweeter in each) fed w/ 300 watts RMS each side (Single Ashley Powerfet 2000 amp running stereo)
1 pair 4 ohm JBL JRX125 cabinets (pair of 15 inch woofers, horn tweeter in each) fed w/ 1350 watts RMS each side (Pair of Ashley Powerfet 2000 amps each running bridged-mono)
1 pair powered subs (unknown manufacturer, single 15 inch woofer) fed w/ 250 watts RMS each side (Each cabinet running it's own built-in mono amp)
I agree it would be nice to have more on the low end, but I don't have the cash to buy or space to store and haul any more sound equipment.
Adam
Thanks I just picked up a pair of cerwin vegas 18 folded horn, and a 2400w qsc. Seemed to do well, but havent heard them in an open environment yet, thats why i was curious what was at SELEM. your right though big bitches and 200#'s each.
leading in trailing technology
now we just need to figure out how to get em to NC!
leading in trailing technology
Who cares about audio... where is the video?
Love, peace, and grease,
allthat... aka: aaron@pangolin
I love horns
My large system currently uses six LAB subwoofers. Each cabinet houses two high excursion 12's (purpose built for horn speakers) coupled to a 9 foot exponentially expanding horn.
2 finished, four unfinished in 2009 (@ Transformus in Asheville, NC):
Internal construction:
They are super efficient, especially in large blocks. I push all six with a QSC PL380 (4000W x 2), and I RARELY hit the -10dB light on the amp. At -15dB on the amp the SPL meter tops out at 135dBC down to about 35Hz (for stereo blocks of 3 cabinets) or 29Hz (for a block of six cabinets).
You can have a conversation with someone at a fairly normal volume while standing in front of them due to the extremely low distortion, but you can't really see them because your eyes shake so much.