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<blockquote data-quote="Ron Kimball" data-source="post: 35346" data-attributes="member: 405">Re: Outdoor System under powered ?Fairs have lots of other stuff going on so often don&#039;t really need or want full on concert level sound. OTOH 2 watts of sub power per listener (at 4k listeners) for an outdoors main stage is a bit shy for sure. If it was only 2k listeners it would have been decent. Also them 8000&#039;s put out 12KW burst if loaded at two ohms like that so can be a bit punchier than one might think.I played a secondary fair stage yesterday that had two pair of TS Floodlights per side which was a bit silly overkill-wise for only 3-500. I provided that same stage a couple months ago with just a pair of 127 db powered tops over a couple folded horn subs with 840 watts to each and it was plenty although the tops were limiting - I was told the previous year&#039;s provider was too loud so tried not to make the same mistake as him. While it is nice to have more rig than you need you can&#039;t really expect the client to be willing to pay extra for it, eh?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ron Kimball, post: 35346, member: 405"] Re: Outdoor System under powered ? Fairs have lots of other stuff going on so often don't really need or want full on concert level sound. OTOH 2 watts of sub power per listener (at 4k listeners) for an outdoors main stage is a bit shy for sure. If it was only 2k listeners it would have been decent. Also them 8000's put out 12KW burst if loaded at two ohms like that so can be a bit punchier than one might think. I played a secondary fair stage yesterday that had two pair of TS Floodlights per side which was a bit silly overkill-wise for only 3-500. I provided that same stage a couple months ago with just a pair of 127 db powered tops over a couple folded horn subs with 840 watts to each and it was plenty although the tops were limiting - I was told the previous year's provider was too loud so tried not to make the same mistake as him. While it is nice to have more rig than you need you can't really expect the client to be willing to pay extra for it, eh? [/QUOTE]

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