Speaker recommendation

Re: Speaker recommendation

Could you run delayed speakers over a wireless link using instrument/guitar transmitters. Cheaper units might be ok...
 
Re: Speaker recommendation

brian maddox said:
yes, yes, a thousand times yes.

will they sound good? no. but they will be intelligible from a long distance and won't require huge amounts on power. they're also relatively lightweight making it easier to find ways to get them way up in the air where they need to be....

oh, and they're not huge money to buy either...
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No, no, a thousand times no! (sorry - had to be symmetrical).

Have you guys ever used these? They sound like the guy from Spaceballs.

I worked on a 40-acre install a few years ago and we tested the biggest Atlas paging horn against their new Stadium stuff and Mackie 450's. The conventional horns are the size of the Liberty bell, and don't project any farther than the Stadium horns, or any other speaker of similar pattern and output. Did I mention the sound quality totally sucks?

In outdoor sound reinforcement, intelligibility is more important than volume, and it's much easier to understand a high-fidelity speaker at a distance than a louder but less clear horn. There really are only two solutions here - get louder boxes and put them up higher (expensive and difficult), or get more boxes and spread them around (probably cheaper, but you've got to get power and signal there). Which one is appropriate will depend on your circumstances.

BTW, if you want a pair of those ridiculous horns, I probably know of a couple for sale cheap.
 
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Mike Pyle said:
I disagree. In a real side-by-side comparison I'd expect the ZXA5 to deliver 4 or 5 dB greater output than a SRM450.
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I agreed. The SRM450 is a weaker box. Their "127dB peak output" rating is very optimistic Probably a good 5dB less than that. The ZXA5 gets noticeably louder. Too bad they don't make it with larger throat for the horn. That would make it a pretty formidable box if it was 3" diaphragm with a 1.5"-2" throat.
 
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Greg Cameron said:
I agreed. The SRM450 is a weaker box. Their "127dB peak output" rating is very optimistic Probably a good 5dB less than that. The ZXA5 gets noticeably louder. Too bad they don't make it with larger throat for the horn. That would make it a pretty formidable box if it was 3" diaphragm with a 1.5"-2" throat.
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Such a horn would so far outrun the woofer it probably wouldn't be beneficial.

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Re: Speaker recommendation

Greg Cameron said:
I agreed. The SRM450 is a weaker box. Their "127dB peak output" rating is very optimistic Probably a good 5dB less than that. The ZXA5 gets noticeably louder. Too bad they don't make it with larger throat for the horn. That would make it a pretty formidable box if it was 3" diaphragm with a 1.5"-2" throat.
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RCF - HD 32-A 12" LF with 3" HF diaphragm in a plastic box
 
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