18sound kit18 question

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 Bremen_99 wrote:

Sounds sick bro. Venue is always the hard part. Definitely depends on which drivers you are talking, reflex isn't that terrible outdoors for the size, especially if under 100 closer up. maybe not ideal, but sounds like you know what you are doing definitely comes down to the engineer not the design. I am pretty sure I'm building the 18sub (updated tall slot port version) because I have a slightly mismatched low end and its a very versatile cabinet, where you can make use of all the xmax your driver has to offer, provided not as efficient. Reflex has more ThD but its very linear and somewhat pleasurable nature, especially in well designed like 18sounds are, but it still has more "distortion" than a horn.  Many like it. This particular cab design seems like a good balance for me, even though I've always been partial to horns they aren't great for the primary listening environment (a studio).
 I was also seriously looking at some tapped horns, it would take over twice as much wood/ply/material for something like the th1821 but less distortion, more efficient. Since you have 6 drivers might spring for something with more coupling, I've been considering building the reflex and then in the future some horn extensions (like levan, infrabass etc) let us know what you decide. I'll have to see which drivers you said you had 

yeahhh i would love to put these in some staiper mk3's both for like, sonic features/capabilities and just like, a cooler system lol. but then id need to figure out some kicks and then my simple 3 way system with ez processing is now a much more complicated 4 way system so then i lean back towards reflex lol. 

but ye i think (hope) that 6 reflexes in a pile will be healthy for ~100ppl outdoors playing dnb/jungle/dubstep. 