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I have actually found something worse than Skytec,a lot worse......QTX.
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Originally posted by BradRWills BradRWills wrote:

I have lots of fun like this with my Nexo PS15 system....

Punter: "How many watts is it mate?"
Reply:  About 4kw in total.
Punter: "ahhh that's shit - my mate's got a 20Kw system....better brand as well....Peavey it's called"
Reply:  <Mains set to 0db>
Punter:  <face removed>
 
 


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Originally posted by jbl_man jbl_man wrote:

"What is the benefit of higher power woofer? Am I missing something?"

Yes,marketing.Its easier and cheaper to make a high power driver with low sensitivity than the other way round.

 'Look boys,our new 2000w bass driver. Shame it's only 93/db/w/m,but hey,its 2000 watts,will look great in the advert'.


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Forgot how long I've been saying this.. Guess it's only acceptable if some people say it.


Originally posted by jbl_man jbl_man wrote:


30 years ago we had bass drivers rated at 400w that were rountinely 101db/w/m.

Now 800 or 1000w seems the norm...but they wont do 101 db/w/m.


Yes, some of the older drivers were gems, but some of today's drivers even though not quite 101 db, are more superior.

Old Fane 18B-400, was fantastic driver in every way, approx 4.25% Ref efficiency.

However 6x of those, cannot match the SPL & air movement, of 4x modern 5" VC,  98db 800w drivers.





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"Yes, some of the older drivers were gems, but some of today's drivers even though not quite 101 db, are more superior."

Yes,fair point,will agree with that,more modern materials and adhesives etc make for a better product.
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"Yes,fair point,will agree with that,more modern materials and adhesives etc make for a better product."

Maybe. I know one guy who had to send a load of brand new JBL 18" drivers back after leaving them in his truck in 40ยบ heat (outside - obviously a lot more inside the truck). Glue on the cones came away and they blew at his next gig.  Ouch
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Yup,there were quite a few cases of the 2226 15inch drivers spiders coming unstuck from the frames a while back Earplug...i had a couple myself,managed to re-glue the spiders sucessfully without reconing them.
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Yes Chinese QC, I imagine. Ouch

How hot does it get in your front room?  LOL
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Instead of using bricks, Ian used PPXs.  Stacked up with the fans pointing into the house, the front room gets very hot.
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LOL Yup,each one is a 900w fan heater.
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Originally posted by jazomir jazomir wrote:

I do like the projection mapping idea though - you could project a screem of B*s* 802s on to it and that would cause a ripple of laughter amongst the cognoscenti!
Damn - someone else beat me to it : Jean Michel  Jarre did it in the 80s!
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