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Fair enough; everyone has their preferences, and I am certainly not saying that VR112's are the be all and end all when it comes to line arrays - far from it; but what they are is a remarkably nice sounding box with pretty exceptional sounding highs that you can buy for under $1500/box new. To my mind that is significant, and warrants a little more respect than many seem to want to extend. The choice of the ribbon driver has both advantages (they sound great) and drawbacks - they give up about 10db in efficiency to the typical compression driver. Likewise the choice of a two way configuration. Admittedly it makes performance in the octave between 1.5K and 3k sub optimum, and clearly it was a decision dictated by the target price point. All that being said, dollar for dollar I don't think they can be beat. Specifically, I mean if you start with a fixed pile of money and buy as many Versarray boxes (and required amps and processing) as you can with that money, I think it would be pretty tough to find another option that outperforms them FOR THE SAME INVESTMENT. If you think that the two VT4887's per side (that's four) you could buy for the same $$ as a dozen VR112's will outperform the Peaveys, you'd be wrong (and I own both). And I much prefer the VR112's to the (similar, but more expensive) VRX series because you just can't hang very many of those before some of them are either pointing down at the floor or up at the ceiling. I recognize that there are some lower cost options than JBL, but in general I don't think that those are any more "rider friendly" than the Peaveys and still cost significantly more, or don't sound as good, or both. I too can think of a number of systems I would choose over the VR112's, but they all cost 3-5 times as much. For some situations that may make sense; for me and my clients it didn't.

<blockquote data-quote="Bill Bennett" data-source="post: 212556" data-attributes="member: 13260"><p>Fair enough; everyone has their preferences, and I am certainly not saying that VR112&#039;s are the be all and end all when it comes to line arrays - far from it; but what they are is a remarkably nice sounding box with pretty exceptional sounding highs that you can buy for under $1500/box new.&nbsp; To my mind that is significant, and warrants a little more respect than many seem to want to extend.&nbsp; The choice of the ribbon driver has both advantages (they sound great) and drawbacks - they give up about 10db in efficiency to the typical compression driver.&nbsp; Likewise the choice of a two way configuration.&nbsp; Admittedly it makes performance in the octave between 1.5K and 3k sub optimum, and clearly it was a decision dictated by the target price point.&nbsp; All that being said, dollar for dollar I don&#039;t think they can be beat.&nbsp; Specifically, I mean if you start with a fixed pile of money and buy as many Versarray boxes (and required amps and processing) as you can with that money, I think it would be pretty tough to find another option that outperforms them FOR THE SAME INVESTMENT.&nbsp; If you think that the two VT4887&#039;s per side (that&#039;s four) you could buy for the same $$ as a dozen VR112&#039;s will outperform the Peaveys, you&#039;d be wrong (and I own both).&nbsp;&nbsp; And I much prefer the VR112&#039;s to the (similar, but more expensive) VRX series because you just can&#039;t hang very many of those before some of them are either pointing down at the floor or up at the ceiling.&nbsp; I recognize that there are some lower cost options than JBL, but in general I don&#039;t think that those are any more &quot;rider friendly&quot; than the Peaveys and still cost significantly more, or don&#039;t sound as good, or both.&nbsp;&nbsp; I too can think of a number of systems I would choose over the VR112&#039;s, but they all cost 3-5 times as much.&nbsp; For some situations that may make sense; for me and my clients it didn&#039;t.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Bill Bennett, post: 212556, member: 13260"] Fair enough; everyone has their preferences, and I am certainly not saying that VR112's are the be all and end all when it comes to line arrays - far from it; but what they are is a remarkably nice sounding box with pretty exceptional sounding highs that you can buy for under $1500/box new. To my mind that is significant, and warrants a little more respect than many seem to want to extend. The choice of the ribbon driver has both advantages (they sound great) and drawbacks - they give up about 10db in efficiency to the typical compression driver. Likewise the choice of a two way configuration. Admittedly it makes performance in the octave between 1.5K and 3k sub optimum, and clearly it was a decision dictated by the target price point. All that being said, dollar for dollar I don't think they can be beat. Specifically, I mean if you start with a fixed pile of money and buy as many Versarray boxes (and required amps and processing) as you can with that money, I think it would be pretty tough to find another option that outperforms them FOR THE SAME INVESTMENT. If you think that the two VT4887's per side (that's four) you could buy for the same $$ as a dozen VR112's will outperform the Peaveys, you'd be wrong (and I own both). And I much prefer the VR112's to the (similar, but more expensive) VRX series because you just can't hang very many of those before some of them are either pointing down at the floor or up at the ceiling. I recognize that there are some lower cost options than JBL, but in general I don't think that those are any more "rider friendly" than the Peaveys and still cost significantly more, or don't sound as good, or both. I too can think of a number of systems I would choose over the VR112's, but they all cost 3-5 times as much. For some situations that may make sense; for me and my clients it didn't. [/QUOTE]

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