Fane Folded Horn 15'' driver advise

T-Bone wrote: I would just sell them and buy BB and build something from this site you'll be better of in the long run.

Biggus wrote: It's 2014 and I have six of these bad boy's there are decent cabs (mine are made out of ply wood), yes old school but decent. All loaded with Fane Colossus 15XB's with Matrix MF7000's driving them.. there do give a good kick and shift some air. Don't sound weak at all.

Seehnav it depends if you're going to use these for money like PA for hire or DJing either way you need to be careful with them not to get wet and or dropped or sat on or spill beer all over which in my 8 years of DJing have happened. So the wood they used is cheap because its a permanent install so it is not going anywhere but once you start moving speakers around the corners will chip, it will get wet, a couple of times people will even dance on top of subs, it will be dropped. So if you can keep those from happening more power to you. I would consider building Tapped Horn like a hybrid Cubo 15 or Cubo Extended 18, I plan in the near future to build Marc's MTH-4654 loaded with 21" for bigger gigs and for smallest setup a Cubo Extended 18 loaded with PD 186. Good Luck!

mini-mad wrote: look.... iv used and borrowed cheap chip-board speakers before. just loaded them up, give them a lick of paint and use them til they die. you may as well make some money out of them even if its just your money back from buying them! as long as its you doing the rigging and transport and you are a little more careful with them then your normal ply built speakers i recon you'll make some good money from them and then wen they FINALLY do die use the drivers to build some 15" tapped horns. use what you have til they die. but i bet you WILL get a fair bit of use out of them before they meet that big fire place in the sky!

iv got a tham12 myself with the same driver and love mine too. its part of my 2.1 system.

once a month!!.... if they dont last at least 2 years i'll eat my hat! iv had soundlabs (shite UK brand) or "big reds" as they are known on here and they lasted me 3yrs and i got them out all the time and shoved them in the back of anyones car that would take me to where i wanted to be. i killed all the drivers before the boxes gave up.  as a side to that.... i gutted the big reds, put bracing inside, and repurposed them into active bass bins with cheap cheap drivers that is now part of a suicide rig and those boxes are still in one piece! and they ARE built outta chip board!

[controversy]1550 in the Fanes and then Apache H15 when they die.[/controversy]