Minirig

No problem in letting them play tilted 👍

As great as the Minirig is, not a chance. A 2.1 setup can hit about 103 dB linear SPL peak at 1 metre.

Doubling that would get you an extra 6 dB, in a theoretically perfect world. Since we don't live in one of those, the distance offsets and spacing would bring that down a fair bit.

Either way, that's only just over 90 dB average, right next to the speakers. At 30 metres, you're looking at 60 dB, which is already going to get lost in the typical background noise levels for a normal conversation, let alone a party.

That's also without considering the people walking in front of the speakers, absorbing sound. You'd normally put your mains (constant directivity horn assumed) up high and angle them down to aim at the farthest listener, so that inverse distance law evens out the level front to back.

To do that, you need directivity and headroom, since you're moving the source farther away from everyone, and unfortunately you don't have it in that setup.

For what it's worth, I hung up several 'line arrays' of Minirigs at Outlook Festival a few years back, for people in the ticket exchange queue to listen to. It worked quite well, but each of them had 6 Minirigs (v1) connected, and there were 4 or 5 'hangs' from memory. Cool marketing concept, but even a single compression driver on a horn and a 12" woofer per side would give more consistent SPL and tonal response from front to back.

Where are you based? If it’s in the UK, you could always look to book the Doppler Soundsystem, which is by the Minirig guys and still battery powered.

Edited by toastyghost - 12 January 2022 at 7:06pm

davey t wrote: So here it is..... been working on this for months and finally have the prototype built and working and would love to share it with you guys to hear your thoughts!: http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/8205/minirigprepro.jpg (Sorry the forum image link wasn't working) So yea, I plan to make a business out of selling these... or similar. so can't say too much about whats inside except that they're very loud, sound is really good with impressive bass, 80 hours+ battery life, charges from USB socket, light weight (~400g) and pretty damn robust. Just adding a grill next. Oh, and its stereo! there is an output for the right speaker at the back. The control on the right switches between mono/stereo and sets the volume of the right speaker. The left knob turns it on/off and set volume of left main speaker. There are two 3.5mm sockets to enable you to link lots together daisy-chain style! :D

Having pulled apart a minirig one to a degree from what i remember you remove the bolts an split it but it might be hard to do if there is double sided tape on the battery so you have to take your time. the main issue is the ports. I beleive they are on a plug and hopefully you can unplug them if not you would need to take a picture and usolder the cables.

I just had someone pour Creme Soda INTO my Sub 3, is there any point in disassembling it? I don't want to damage anything in the process, but I live in South Africa so I can't really just send it in to be repaired.

I would be interested in installing the speaker in a box and change the battery to something much bigger. The battery in mine is 11.1v 1500mah but weirdly they look alot bigger online. Not sure if its a li_ion or li-poly if anyone knows please say. Would like to swap it to a 5000mah