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<blockquote data-quote="Michael Storey" data-source="post: 74594" data-attributes="member: 1456">Re: JBL PRX600 opinionsI&#039;ve owned 615m&#039;s and 612m&#039;s and frequently used them over SRX 718&#039;s with pleasing results. The 612m is the winner IMO if you&#039;re always using them w/ subs. No need for the extra size and weight of the 615m, which IMO is just a tad bit akward and bulky compared to the 612m. No subs? Then I&#039;d have to give it to the 615m for obvious reasons. A couple things I didn&#039;t like include the mic/line switch that could easily or mistakenly be depressed, which could probably take out a HF driver if the unit is being fed a line level signal and a uneducated customer switches it to mic level. Speaking of the HF driver, they tend to rotate themselves loose pretty often. I tried loctite but that ended up cracking the throats of the plastic horns. I&#039;m sure you could come up with a more clever solution, though. Also as stated, the wedge angle sucks 99.9% of the time...Lastly, it seems as though I&#039;m the only with this opinion, nonetheless IMO they both have lousy GBF feedback out of the box. Somewhere around 2k and 5k were always problem frequencies for me. Probably wont matter to someone with your skill set, but that dry rental customer that plans on plugging a mic straight into the speaker might have issues.Still, for the money it&#039;s a decent box that I&#039;d still own if I didn&#039;t go all passive.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Michael Storey, post: 74594, member: 1456"] Re: JBL PRX600 opinions I've owned 615m's and 612m's and frequently used them over SRX 718's with pleasing results. The 612m is the winner IMO if you're always using them w/ subs. No need for the extra size and weight of the 615m, which IMO is just a tad bit akward and bulky compared to the 612m. No subs? Then I'd have to give it to the 615m for obvious reasons. A couple things I didn't like include the mic/line switch that could easily or mistakenly be depressed, which could probably take out a HF driver if the unit is being fed a line level signal and a uneducated customer switches it to mic level. Speaking of the HF driver, they tend to rotate themselves loose pretty often. I tried loctite but that ended up cracking the throats of the plastic horns. I'm sure you could come up with a more clever solution, though. Also as stated, the wedge angle sucks 99.9% of the time... Lastly, it seems as though I'm the only with this opinion, nonetheless IMO they both have lousy GBF feedback out of the box. Somewhere around 2k and 5k were always problem frequencies for me. Probably wont matter to someone with your skill set, but that dry rental customer that plans on plugging a mic straight into the speaker might have issues. Still, for the money it's a decent box that I'd still own if I didn't go all passive. [/QUOTE]

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