Court black box

colint wrote: It could well have been Tony that built some of the court stuff I know be built boxes for many companys back in the early day including Martin audio. The only box that I've seen from court made in mdf was the 1 x 15" reflex box (and full range box the went with it) from the later stuff, not saying they didn't do others just that I didn't see any and Stephen Court was a bit of a "devils in the detail" type of bloke I would have thought it odd if he were buying birch ply by the pack it would be daft chucking some mdf panels in to the equasion. Saying that he always said the black box system was only ever loaded with JBL, but I know for a fact some were loaded with Fanes to certain customers. The system in the Camden palace was the one to see/hear think it was ten 2 x 15's the width of the stage with four of the 4 way mid highs stacked either side of the stage, it was a very serious system at the time and the only thing that over shadowed it was when the MoS opened http://www.courtacoustics.net/

I spent most of my miss spent youth in that venue stood in front of that court system. I believe it later got moved and used as side fills, replaced by JBL sound power - I may be wrong it was a lot my time ago!

Thats interesting what boots-hifi has said.

I might be totally wrong but I'm sure I was told ages ago that the Court rig at Camden Palace was replaced by a system that included IK 1 x 18 folded horn subs with JBL components, no idea about the rest of the rig.


I just cannot imagine any replacement rig being anywhere near as good as the Court.

I think the reason that fantastic rigs in clubs sometimes get replaced like this, is to do with the tax allowance on capital assets tapering off after a few years, which makes it a good idea for the club to buy a new soundsystem so they can offset a much larger amount of money against tax.

Hey that sounds like a good idea.

I used two stacks, each with one v baffle 2 x 18, one 2 x 15 w bin, but used a couple of IK coax boxes (with an empty centre box to make a curve) for the mid tops.

The w bin was at the bottom of the stack, with the v baffle 2 x 18 above it.

We did it like this because the w bin was so heavy we didnt want to dead lift it.

I am ready to be "shot down in flames" by the experts on here for doing it this way, but having the 18"s on top of the w bin meant they were right at chest height which worked really well in a small club.

There's 2 on rig resell on fb for 200 unloaded

I've got 2 and tbh I love them above my scoops