old EV MT4 designs?

 

 

understood....but with respect.... I DO want some of these cabs and they still are more than a 'pretty good system'......

Im not fussed about weight, as a lot of our gigs next year are outdoors and on a bigger scale than we've done in the past.

(when ya carrying kit half way up a mountain to do a proper exclusive party, its a tad different to rocking up at a festy n rolling the kit out of a tail lift)...

peace,

N

 

 

Check this, lol whoever stacked that MT4 sub on top of the other one must have been strong as it weighs a ton.

 

 

 

 

The tops mids are quite nice if you get them with the original 10" speakers. Throw out the MHF and HF and put some modern drivers on modern horns there. 

If they are run with the old BSS Omnidrive(2 in 8 out) with the correct Xover points and steep slope hi-pass filters set at 40hz then it is like listening to a huge hi fi system and you will rarely blow any bass drivers which has always been the biggest problem with these stacks---Oh and if you think the 4x18s are heavy then just try picking up one of the mid/his.

 

You say you like pure and crisp kick, that's simply something the MTL4 won't ever do. They just can't, it's physically impossible for them. If you have 16 HD15, that's the way to go. It won't get better by putting bandpasses under them. The only viable way to 'marry' kick fillers with a design like the MTL4 is by crossing them over at 60-70Hz. So what will you get? A huge, heavy box to use from 50-65Hz. If you want serious, somewhat more transient correct output below 80Hz go for LAB subs or even Punishers. Boxes like the MTL4 even rumble ABOVE 50Hz. It's the nature of a bandpass, and there are only very very very few bandpasses that won't rumble.

Just take a look around on HIGH QUALITY systems. They all use bandpasses of 6th order+ only for output below 65Hz, and even there it's just a 'budget' solution, not some luxury solution.

 

BTW I have seen many many clubs that were really well decorated, with good DJ lineup, big audience and extremely crappy sound systems. Also I have seen the best DJs in the world playing on crappy sound systems. I won't be impressed by things like 'DJ XX played on that system, so it must be ok' or 'This really good club has them'. I'm only impressed if I hear it with my own ears.... and that's not that often. It may sound strange or arrogant, but I'm used to work on some of the finest systems on the planet, some of them not even that much known, but all of them way above the MT4.

 

 

BTW again: I'm not angry at all, even it may seem so to you. It's just hard for me to write in english. Don't get me wrong.