Best Active PA

QSC K12.2 are supposed to be good sound quality and reasonably loud for their price, I know they use Celestion drivers which are reliable drivers and obviously being QSC they'll use QSC amplifier modules. I'd say better though would be or even about the best for £800 per speaker would be RCF Art-732A.

Edited by Mel Gibson - 12 October 2018 at 7:46pm

njw wrote:   This is just my two cents, but what I've heard of the Yamaha DSR range has left me feeling very unimpressed, a local venue has a pair of the 215's on top of two pairs of 118 subs and it sounds fantastic at low to medium voulme but crank it up and, whilst giving huge amounts of spl, the quality drops off considerably, the top end gets very harsh, mids shouty and the bass very muddy and uncontrolled.

Yeah that is user error I bet the input levels are being pushed well into clipping. These boxes will outclass everything in the same price bracket with lots more clean sound.. boxes like the JBL PRX, QSC K, etc, but they are still just MI level powered speakers and cannot compete with pro level boxes with 1.4" or 2" comps.. powered or passive.

efinque wrote: MarjanM wrote: For what? Those are toys. But if that is what you need... For 200ish people? They seem reasonably priced imo.. the top line dB Technologies active subs cost A LOT though, with prices hovering somewhere around 3-5k. Could be bit of an overkill too.. I think the problem with active is that you don't get much control over the system, a speaker management system/processor helps a bit though.

Edited by MarjanM - 13 October 2018 at 9:35am

Conanski wrote: njw wrote:   This is just my two cents, but what I've heard of the Yamaha DSR range has left me feeling very unimpressed, a local venue has a pair of the 215's on top of two pairs of 118 subs and it sounds fantastic at low to medium voulme but crank it up and, whilst giving huge amounts of spl, the quality drops off considerably, the top end gets very harsh, mids shouty and the bass very muddy and uncontrolled. Yeah that is user error I bet the input levels are being pushed well into clipping. These boxes will outclass everything in the same price bracket with lots more clean sound.. boxes like the JBL PRX, QSC K, etc, but they are still just MI level powered speakers and cannot compete with pro level boxes with 1.4" or 2" comps.. powered or passive.

 
 
 I'll be honest, I haven't knowingly heard any other DSR kit so yeah, it's probably 'all the gear, no idea!'. I'd still rather a rack of amps and an lms though.

Anyone using a pair of the PM90 boxes on this site?