How do the X15’s sound

Hi folks.

I'm thinking about building some X15's for live purposes, playing rock, indie/pop. How do the boxes sound, and how are they for feedback rejection.

If you could compare them to a commercially built box e.g. EV sx300, Martin F15 etc. what would you compare them to?

Cheers. Rich

ceharden wrote: IMO you don't need to make them as big as the X15 plans on this site since you're probably forcing the SN15MB to play lower than it really wants to.

Not sure what you mean. Do you mean reproduce lower frequencies than it wants to? If so, I was going to cross them and add some subs to them.

Would love to come and check your's out but unfortunately I'm in Manchester. Where abouts are you in case I'm ever down your way?

Thanks. Rich

Nice one, cheers.

I'm currently running a rig consisting of two peavey 115 hysis subs loaded with JBL 2226H/J's and four home made boxes (not made by myself) with Eminence 15" Kappa LF in the mids and JBL 2446H/J compression drivers crossed at around 1.6K, and it sounds pretty awful! Kick drums don't give a good thorax shaking blast, and the tops give that kind of painful upper mid with vocals, especially females. One of the biggest problems I have is the feedback rejection, which is pretty bad resulting in problems when trying to pull the vocals out of the mix.

So.. I've decided to build a complete new system (as it's all I can afford), and sell the old one as components. I'm thinking to start with of building four 18" reflex subs (I'd like to build a couple of horns but this is unrealistic as a first time builder) and a couple of 15" tops and stacking them. I don't want to get this wrong as I'd lose a lot of money so finding the right design is important, that's why I'm torn between the X15's, and the 15" cabs on the fane website as both work out about the same cost.

My main concerns are feedback rejection, painful upper mid, and the max spl/efficiency of the cab.

Any suggestions are greatly recieved. Many thanks, Rich.

Good God, somebody up as late as me!

Right, I'll try swapping the JBL's and see how this goes for the time beeing. I'm uneasy lowering the x-over point lower than 1.2K (yes I'm activly crossing) because this brings the handling capabilities down to 50wrms per driver.

I'm keen to get rid of the 15" subs as I recon 18's will give me a better live kick drum (I could be wrong), and I'm under the impression that the top boxes have been really poorly designed, I guess is just the constant dissapointment I've had recently. I'll see what happens when I swap the drivers over, there may be no need to build new ones.

Have you any experience of the Fane 18" reflex cabs?

Chhers, Rich.

The're all 16ohm apart from one which is an 8, I suppose I can expect problems from that.

I'll have it up and running again in a couple of weeks so I'll keep you posted.

Cheers mate, Rich.