New DJ Monitors.

pfly wrote: Your logic is lacking.

Missed you Pfly, .

+ 1 tony, the only time ive had issues with monitors was when in one venue they were run 50m plus back to amp room, found it better to mix without them on..... as for passive or active, 99.9% of venues use active, in fact i cant name one in my 25 years of djing that was set up passive.... i cant see the gain or point, in extra amp processing etc.......

Edited by bee - 22 April 2013 at 10:15pm

bee wrote: + 1 tony, the only time ive had issues with monitors was when in one venue they were run 50m plus back to amp room, found it better to mix without them on..... as for passive or active, 99.9% of venues use passive, in fact i cant name one in my 25 years of djing that was set up active.... i cant see the gain or point, in extra amp processing etc.......

Apparently the others have been talking about powered loudspeakers, not bi-amped unpowered ones.

Also, I bet my ass you will not be able to tell the time/delay difference between 50 metre and 5 metre loudspeaker cable:

Wikipedia wrote: Propagation speed is affected by insulation, so that in an unshielded copper conductor ranges 95 to 97% that of the speed of light, while in a typical coaxial cable it is about 66% of the speed of light

Now if in the amp room they had some processing configured wrong, then it will be different story. Typical propagation delay through loudspeaker processor's AD, DSP and the is few milliseconds. Stand a metre away from the loudspeaker and you have another 3 milliseconds just from the distance between your ear and loudspeaker driver.


Edited by pfly - 22 April 2013 at 10:10pm

very true ben, i cant see the gain in doing it any other way....

All I am saying is from PERSONAL EXPERIENCE, active monitors are far less hassle, and I have had far less issues with them.

I always take both, master and booth outputs from the DJ mixer to my "FOH" mixer usually situated somewhere behind the DJ and/or the stack(s) and connect DJ monitors to my console's auxes, this gives me versatility to also route a MC mic or any other signal to DJ monitors independently. Also this gives me nice control over DJ monitor EQ (by my Crest XR20's channels EQ) and levels, although 99,9% of times I only route the booth signal through my console at unity gain. When I do it like this I would only find it annoying to have two loudspeakers that needed "special" treatment than all other loudspeakers in the system, so unpowered speakers it is.

When connected straight to the booth output, powered loudspeakers have small advantage.


Oh and nice looking speakers you have created Tony, once again!