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Re: New DIY Mid High





No I haven’t heard the KF394, but I love how EAW appears to have put so much sound quality and horse power in such a small box. As far as I know it uses a 4594ND and a couple of these - http://www.eighteensound.it/PRODUCTS/Products/CatID/8/ProdID=28#.VJ30btY-ALA or something similar. It uses a passive crossover between the HF and VHF, but it’snot the same as the BMS crossover that I mention above. I have heard the QX594 which is similar is some ways  http://eaw.com/portfolio_page/qx594i/- they sounds excellent and go extremely loud. 


In comparison to the KF394 my DIY box is bigger and about 4Kgs heavier and should be noticeably louder. I used it for the first time as infill for a small Christmas Carols show. It gave me a chance to see how loud they go and tweak the DSPsettings a little.


I have to say it’s one of the loudest boxes for its size I have ever come a cross. My aim was to build a speaker on a stick with SPL capabilities of an EAW KF850.  I think I have come close. I used it with my double 18 - 3600 watt subs which are loaded with 2 x 18sound 18NLW9000 powered by a Powersoft K10.  This DIY MID HI needs more LF than one of these double 18's, as a guess it probably needs 2 of your standard 2000 watt double 18” subs … there is a double 21” (2 x B&C 21SW152) on its way as a matching sub for this box J.