No one nothing ? jeez

RC1 - brutal at all frequencies.

QSS - much more balanced, better selection.

Horses for courses, there’s clearly a large following of RC1 that enjoy that savage bass - I’ve got a lot of respect for what Jon has created, it’s very effective for what he does.

Personally, I prefer the QSS approach - proper sub, and just a more pleasurable listening experience.

Everyone assumes this was going to be a full-on bass war, which is not really how it played out.

Any reviews and comments I've seen have been very nice and everybody is calling the event a draw with both systems coming out on top 

Thought it was going to be an all out sound system clash 

Think its only Reggae guys, who know what a real sound clash is.

Sound clash not about who can make the most noise, and zero entertainment.

It's about the music selection, system heavy and clean, mic man, which crew had best vibes, most entertaining.

Fatha Chalky did a nice breakdown of the night...

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Just been told by very knowledgeable engineer who was at the gig, when Qualitex first started pre gig warm up, ceiling above the bar, started shaking and was in danger of collapse, and venue owner instructed both sounds to unplug 2x subs.

Apparently Qualitex did comply, and RC1 did not.

Which means RC1 system was running the night with a pair of subs more than Qualitex, even though the feedback was, Qualitex sub, was rounder and deeper.

To be honest, many of us already expected this, after hearing RC1 previously, so I would expect any more discussion of sub in this topic, to be of little consequence.

What I think would have been of more interest, is if both systems were playing Roots Reggae and Dub only, which would further identify, which system was superior, between 30hz-18khz, if they were both playing, the same number of subs, that is.

Mid tops- RC1's sound amazing, absolutely loved them, like a massive hifi. QSS' were fine and definitely more 'soundsystem' style (unbalanced?) but clear enough and not harsh but... RC1s were just lush.

Bass- Much preferred QSS. I was surprised and a bit disappointed by RC1 with how low they didn't play and how distorted it sounded. Unless I was consistently unlucky with where I was standing, there were notes completely missing off the low end. My guess is John raised his high pass in order to win on SPL, but shit loads of distorted 60Hz+ was not it imo. I like a rough bass so I can see the appeal and see why people rate their bass (if that's how they normally sound?) but I want to hear the root notes as well as the 2nd harmonic. QSS was felt in the stomach, RC1 was felt in the nose and throat.

Music- If you like DnB, then RC1 will have won for you, basically. From what I could see, RC1 had the crowd until 12/1am or so when Footsie n others came on for QSS, that seemed like a turning point and the crowd were more on the side of QSS following that.

Bonus thoughts- It was nice to hear different styles of music played on both sounds as dub/roots doesn't always have the best production imo. It was good hear the systems tested away from what they we're designed for.

For the last hour or so (maybe longer? Didn't check) John was stood arms crossed and looking pretty miserable tbh, whereas Kutty was dancing and joking around.

RC1's selecta/mic man gave the win to QSS, think that says a lot.

Seem to remember the Sinai vs RC1 thread had a decent amount of people singing RC1's praises, there's none of that now.

Overall QSS won for me but it wasn't a slaughter, but it wasn't even that sort of a night anyway.

This just goes to show how subjective audio is; as the times I have heard RC1 its certainly not what I would consider ‘hifi’ in the slightest.

That’s not knocking them either, as clearly they are going for a loud and aggressive system over detailed and clarity.

Sypa wrote: So QSS subs are just the 18 sound manifold plan ? And don't tell me different bracing or something similarly non important is a "modification" .

Not sure what answer you are expecting from this question.

Surely only QSS will know what design his cabs are, and no one can really tell from the outside !?

Why not ask QSS, yourself !?

Its just  classic speculation calm down

Snowflake indeed it seems like the 18 inch version is a play between the 18 inch version and the 21 . While the 21 version has those 2 ports with wood in the middle and seems its tapered just like on the plans.