This is not the HK you think it is. This company is a one man shop in the boonies run by David Robinson who claims to have worked on the Wall of Sound with The Dead. He had been poo-pooing my Rat rig at my venue as well as all things digital, even though he's never heard the rig. He's using his newly built rig for it's first gig tonight in my venue. It's interesting and old school in many ways. He's using all passive crossover designs in the tops, the subs, and the LM boxes. All custom made chokes and high precision poly caps. No external processor other then a KT graphic. He also insists the the Yamaha PM3000 he's using outfitted with new high end transformers in the input is better than anything else out there bar none. Who am I to argue? But I thought the rig was interesting even though I think the implementation has some issues.
He's going 4 tops wide with 90 degree radial horns and tweeter lenses, no splay. All boxes are bandpass designs. The tops have 2 10s, old JBL 2" compression drivers on a radial horn, and a 1" JBL on a redesigned lens. The lens was custom designed for David by an former old school JBL employee who also designed the crossovers. The 10s are custom designed and manufactured by some German outfit. Apparently that cost quite a bit of money. Below the tops are 4 single 15" boxes and then two single 18" bandpass subs. The subs have large chokes in them for the low pass. He's using AB amps to power it all.
I kept my mouth shut, but 2 big problems with this setup as show is that the 1) the horns are all 90" with the boxes all flat faced (no splay)and 2), the 2" horns are at eye level and the tweeter lenses are at chin level. The people in front are going to be hurting and the folks behind them aren't going to being hearing the highs very well. I expect there to be lots of combing as well.
Anyhow, I'm going to go listen to it in a little bit. I'll let ya'll know how it sounds. Sorry for the fuzzy iPhone pics, but low light and iPhone cameras present a challenge.
He's going 4 tops wide with 90 degree radial horns and tweeter lenses, no splay. All boxes are bandpass designs. The tops have 2 10s, old JBL 2" compression drivers on a radial horn, and a 1" JBL on a redesigned lens. The lens was custom designed for David by an former old school JBL employee who also designed the crossovers. The 10s are custom designed and manufactured by some German outfit. Apparently that cost quite a bit of money. Below the tops are 4 single 15" boxes and then two single 18" bandpass subs. The subs have large chokes in them for the low pass. He's using AB amps to power it all.
I kept my mouth shut, but 2 big problems with this setup as show is that the 1) the horns are all 90" with the boxes all flat faced (no splay)and 2), the 2" horns are at eye level and the tweeter lenses are at chin level. The people in front are going to be hurting and the folks behind them aren't going to being hearing the highs very well. I expect there to be lots of combing as well.
Anyhow, I'm going to go listen to it in a little bit. I'll let ya'll know how it sounds. Sorry for the fuzzy iPhone pics, but low light and iPhone cameras present a challenge.
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