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<blockquote data-quote="Jason Lavoie" data-source="post: 23848" data-attributes="member: 159"><p>Re: Would you buy this speaker?</p><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p>Ha, pretty close..</p><p>it's actually an Octasound SP860..</p><p></p><p>and yes Ryan, if we were only looking for vocal intelligibility there might be a place for a curve like that.. unfortunately in hockey arenas and gyms it's just not right..</p><p>the biggest problem is that they weren't always like that. the hump comes from them swapping out drivers for more and more efficient models over the years in the quest for 'better' sound. so replacing a 5 year old speaker with the exact same model needs retuning, and some of those systems didn't have a DSP because it sounded ok then.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, long story short is that after I brought this up, and pointed out that their cost vs performance ratio might not be very competitive, they discontinued our dealership!</p><p>so while I WAS biting my tongue and quietly trying to help them make their product better (or at least prevent them from making it worse) they've put me in a position where I really don't care to protect them anymore, and wanted to get a second opinion..</p><p></p><p>for the same money I can put together a cluster of 4 EAW VR21s and although it's a bit more assembly time the end result is much better.. and the angles are adjustable..</p><p></p><p>Jason</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jason Lavoie, post: 23848, member: 159"] Re: Would you buy this speaker? Ha, pretty close.. it's actually an Octasound SP860.. and yes Ryan, if we were only looking for vocal intelligibility there might be a place for a curve like that.. unfortunately in hockey arenas and gyms it's just not right.. the biggest problem is that they weren't always like that. the hump comes from them swapping out drivers for more and more efficient models over the years in the quest for 'better' sound. so replacing a 5 year old speaker with the exact same model needs retuning, and some of those systems didn't have a DSP because it sounded ok then. Anyway, long story short is that after I brought this up, and pointed out that their cost vs performance ratio might not be very competitive, they discontinued our dealership! so while I WAS biting my tongue and quietly trying to help them make their product better (or at least prevent them from making it worse) they've put me in a position where I really don't care to protect them anymore, and wanted to get a second opinion.. for the same money I can put together a cluster of 4 EAW VR21s and although it's a bit more assembly time the end result is much better.. and the angles are adjustable.. Jason [/QUOTE]
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