V1200 in a looney review
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Topic: V1200 in a looney review
Posted By: Bryan M
Subject: V1200 in a looney review
Date Posted: 06 August 2007 at 11:22am
4 V-1200 looneys, 2 Stasys 3 mk. 2, run with a mk2 infinite 8, kryo 5.4 and XTA 226.
Looneys sounded very nice, at this stage they seemed to have a much flatter response than my old ones but during the rush on saturday to get them finished one of the drivers was accidently wired up + to - resulting in some issues at the club. It wasn't that they sounded bad, they were moving a shed load of air but musically something was missing.
the next day we took them up the lock-up and had a play whilst testing out dave t s new t.amp 3400 located the problem cab and un-plugged it. you could notice the difference instantly as that classic hard hitting sound of the looney came out but the honk that people associate with these cabs was not apparent with the source material we were using.
Frequency response seemed nice and flat but with no way available to us of measuring it at the time it was done with good old ears and opinion.
As Rog is still un-shure of the cones ability to withstand being horn loaded i'm going to run them up a few more times in different scenarios before giving my final opinion.
few pics of the saturdays madness:
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Posted By: j_0_e
Date Posted: 06 August 2007 at 11:32am
they look so nice..
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Posted By: D_Racer
Date Posted: 06 August 2007 at 2:04pm
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Did sound very nice mate.
Take note mr Savo if u see this mate
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Posted By: Disco Stu
Date Posted: 06 August 2007 at 2:17pm
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You could do with painting the inside of those handles, but yeah very nice my favourite design right now, panda sound, white on the inside and nice hardwearing black on the outside, at least the smoke wont discolour the white any more!
Go looney pandas!
Stu ------------- All you need to know is: Sensitivity + Power Handling - Power Compression = Max Output My acts: www.myspace.com/thebowiexperience www.myspace.com/scheisseelektronisches |
Posted By: CHAMPION
Date Posted: 20 September 2007 at 11:17am
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They would looked like a F1 cab is you had finished the external colour in Blue ! ------------- Sticks n Stones |
Posted By: chilli
Date Posted: 23 September 2007 at 11:39pm
or purple even |
CHAMPION wrote:Posted By: waal
Date Posted: 25 September 2007 at 9:03pm
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how do you get the looney bin plans, i cant find them??
------------- i love my sound system, but i want to go louder and louder. its never loud enough |
Posted By: adambomb
Date Posted: 25 September 2007 at 9:55pm
| 1850 plans slightly modified... not publicaly released plans. |
Posted By: Mark James
Date Posted: 26 September 2007 at 3:32am
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modified to make the best out of a driver that isn't publicly available either..... ------------- me so horny me love you long throw horn loaded for her pleasure |
Posted By: Saul
Date Posted: 29 September 2007 at 1:22pm
i got hold of some 
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Posted By: jozoraz
Date Posted: 16 October 2007 at 9:30pm
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do you use 4mm or 2,5mm cables for the connection between the speakon plug and the driver ? |
Posted By: Saul
Date Posted: 17 October 2007 at 3:06pm
| ive used 4mm from thomann.com |
Posted By: jozoraz
Date Posted: 17 October 2007 at 4:33pm
and the plug is a usual 4 pin neutrik speakon ? cause i thought it is impossible to connect two 4mm cables on one pin. i got theese speakon plugs: |
Posted By: adambomb
Date Posted: 17 October 2007 at 4:37pm
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yes you can.. if your good with the iron!
Took me a few goes (ages!!) to get it right... loads of solder on the contact and the cable.. heat and dab... so you get contact>cable>cable..covered in solder.
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Posted By: imageoven
Date Posted: 18 October 2007 at 9:57am
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Why do you need to solder two cables to one connector? In order to take a cable to a parrallel out? If so much easier to solder just one cable and then split that single into two with a connector block or by twisting, soldering and insulating. Another way is to take a cable from each speakon to the speaker terminals and join them at the terminal. Also, did you know you can get crimp on connectors to fit those lugs on the speakons? the ones I've used needed a little squeeze with pliers to be tight enough and I used a spot of glue to stop them being pulled off inadvertantly. |
Posted By: odc04r
Date Posted: 18 October 2007 at 1:09pm
| I don't trust spade connectors as much as a well soldered joint. |
Posted By: ceharden
Date Posted: 18 October 2007 at 2:02pm
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Trick is to heatshrink the two wires next to each other (and tin them together) so you're only trying to hold one large cable onto the connector rather than two! Oh, and 2.5mm cable is sufficient for connections within any cabinet since they're never more than half a metre long anyway. |
Posted By: imageoven
Date Posted: 18 October 2007 at 4:28pm
| Yes I was a bit wary of them too, but faced with a number of the 8 way speakons to wire up I thought it was worth trying. No problems so far. |
Posted By: pfly
Date Posted: 21 July 2008 at 1:33pm
| How have the 1200s holded in there this far? |
Posted By: noobsound
Date Posted: 21 July 2008 at 6:04pm
| anny opinions on the T.amp u were testing with? thx |
Posted By: savo
Date Posted: 21 July 2008 at 6:52pm
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the 1200's are still going strong. imo they sound awsome . |
Posted By: streetsounds
Date Posted: 06 August 2008 at 2:57pm
You mean got a plan for the looney? how does it differ to 1850 design. Is it ok to take a look at it? ------------- Bass matters... |
Posted By: Saul
Date Posted: 03 September 2008 at 9:28pm
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no i got hold of v18 1000's
the looney bin plans are strictly private to rog himself |
Posted By: savo
Date Posted: 24 September 2008 at 5:30pm
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these are now for sale , £2000 ono . |
Posted By: chunkydj
Date Posted: 24 September 2008 at 5:53pm
| where are you based? |
Posted By: savo
Date Posted: 24 September 2008 at 5:56pm
| swindon , wilts. |
Posted By: savo
Date Posted: 28 July 2009 at 5:25pm
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these are now in the for sale section at a bargin price of £1500 ovno |