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<blockquote data-quote="Paul Johnson" data-source="post: 217585" data-attributes="member: 2643">I&#039;m not irritated, but the concept of quality PA and hifi simply do not go together. What I mean is that you seem to think that buy-in g Meyer or other similar products means it&#039;s better than a decent hifi system? They were very much different beasts. Hifi is chosen so that what goes in, comes out largely untouched apart from volume. PA systems are designed to throw large amounts of sound a distance, and not to be listened to in the near field. Physically, these boxes are large, or they stack together to become large. Mainly for power handling really. One speaker on its own, fired up in my studio sounds pretty horrible just ticking over. Turn it up in a big space and they change character. If you know what hifi sounds like, do NOT expect this type of sound from a PA. It&#039;s really like a low sports car vs a 4WD with chunky tyres. Same power output, but wildly different. I really have never ever heard a quality piece of home audio that sounds like a PA. In fact, I do a lot of trade shows and they often have speaker demo rooms where big PAs are set up and people can hear the same music played on them all in sequence. None sound like a hifi, but from what you stated, you want PA sound to wobble the stomach and knock you over with the wind! If you want studio monitors you would buy one brand and if you want a PA you buy another. You may well be chasing unicorns - a sort of Don Quixote mission that you cannot win. Your room is really small, so the sound from a PA system will sounds very strange If we also assume your height is restricted too, being in that space with a powerful PA will be quite unpleasant.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Paul Johnson, post: 217585, member: 2643"] I'm not irritated, but the concept of quality PA and hifi simply do not go together. What I mean is that you seem to think that buy-in g Meyer or other similar products means it's better than a decent hifi system? They were very much different beasts. Hifi is chosen so that what goes in, comes out largely untouched apart from volume. PA systems are designed to throw large amounts of sound a distance, and not to be listened to in the near field. Physically, these boxes are large, or they stack together to become large. Mainly for power handling really. One speaker on its own, fired up in my studio sounds pretty horrible just ticking over. Turn it up in a big space and they change character. If you know what hifi sounds like, do NOT expect this type of sound from a PA. It's really like a low sports car vs a 4WD with chunky tyres. Same power output, but wildly different. I really have never ever heard a quality piece of home audio that sounds like a PA. In fact, I do a lot of trade shows and they often have speaker demo rooms where big PAs are set up and people can hear the same music played on them all in sequence. None sound like a hifi, but from what you stated, you want PA sound to wobble the stomach and knock you over with the wind! If you want studio monitors you would buy one brand and if you want a PA you buy another. You may well be chasing unicorns - a sort of Don Quixote mission that you cannot win. Your room is really small, so the sound from a PA system will sounds very strange If we also assume your height is restricted too, being in that space with a powerful PA will be quite unpleasant. [/QUOTE]

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