What's your most common "utility speaker" type?

What's your most common "utility speaker" type?

  • Wood, Passive, Large Format CD

    Votes: 3 6.0%

  • Plastic, Passive, Large Format CD

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Wood, Active, Large Format CD

    Votes: 7 14.0%

  • Plastic, Active, Large Format CD

    Votes: 3 6.0%

  • Wood, Passive, Small Format CD

    Votes: 10 20.0%

  • Plastic, Passive, Small Format CD

    Votes: 3 6.0%

  • Wood, Active, Small Format CD

    Votes: 12 24.0%

  • Plastic, Active, Small Format CD

    Votes: 15 30.0%

  • Wood, Passive, Coaxial

    Votes: 1 2.0%

  • Plastic, Passive, Coaxial

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Wood, Active, Coaxial

    Votes: 2 4.0%

  • Plastic, Active, Coaxial

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    50
  • Poll closed .
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Phil Graham

Honorary PhD
Mar 10, 2011
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Atlanta, GA
Curious, as the season ramps up, what's the componentry complement of your most common utility speaker. The one that serves as delays, front fills, SOS, monitor duty, etc. For instance, in my undergraduate days this would have been EAW JF:
 
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Don't judge, but Behringer b212D is easily my best ROI. I actually ended up selling my Yorkville E12's.

I have 6 of them. SOS, monitors, small gigs etc. tomorrow will be a small show for ~50 people using 5 of them.
 
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Phil Graham said:
Curious, as the season ramps up, what's the componentry complement of your most common utility speaker. The one that serves as delays, front fills, SOS, monitor duty, etc. For instance, in my undergraduate days this would have been EAW JF:
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Phil,

CD (constant directivity) horns and CD (compression drivers) exits, diaphragm, and sizes come in a very wide variety. Horn and diaphragm size varies by a factor of 10 or so in "utility speakers".
At what point do you consider a horn/driver "small format", and when does it become "large format"?

Art
 
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If it helps, probably my main go to speaker the last few years has been my K10's. venues are mostly small churches, live music and speaker.
 
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Art Welter said:
At what point do you consider a horn/driver "small format", and when does it become "large format"?
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In this case I've left it up to the voters for them to judge. I think people can figure out, and at any rate I'm more interested in people's general use case than the gory details of what they are using.
 
Re: What's your most common "utility speaker" type?

Art Welter said:
Phil,

CD (constant directivity) horns and CD (compression drivers) exits, diaphragm, and sizes come in a very wide variety. Horn and diaphragm size varies by a factor of 10 or so in "utility speakers".
At what point do you consider a horn/driver "small format", and when does it become "large format"?

Art
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I use the exit size as the yardstick. 1" or less equals small format. Anything larger than 1" (which seems to realistically start at 1.4") is large format. I don't much care how big the voice coil is....
 
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Chris Whelan said:
Don't judge, but Behringer b212D is easily my best ROI. I actually ended up selling my Yorkville E12's.

I have 6 of them. SOS, monitors, small gigs etc. tomorrow will be a small show for ~50 people using 5 of them.
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No judgement, just looking to understand what people are using.
 
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I'm starting to slowly replace my aging Mackie SRM450's with JBL PRX612m's. While the Mackie's have served me very well, they're getting old, starting to break and are heavy(in comparison) to the PRX. Either way, it's a small format box.



Evan
 
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We use lots of MRX512 and PRX612 boxes, some old Eon boxes and some small Behringer boxes. The PRX are my personal favourite.
 
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Between myself and another company that I work for, I have been using 16 DSR112's on a regular basis. Mains, monitors, frontfills, delays, whatever. They can't be beat at twice their price. They get loud, sound great, and are relatively light at under 50 lbs. I've used both, and am not sure why anyone would still buy the prx or k series offerings.
 
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My QRX boxes have been work horses. Monitors, Fills, and FOH for other gigs. While heavier than powered options they are paid for, get loud enough and sound dang good doing it. They can be biamped or passive and flown. Just a versatile box for me.
 
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