Witch driver instead of the PD1850 aka witch amp |
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Tengu Collective
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Posted: 07 January 2013 at 2:02pm |
Hy guys!
We run 4 X1 with the PD1850 driver and it sounds great! But after all it's not enought pressure for our music & our taste. (we play dub & dubstep and run a regular bass night in switzerland called "fraction") One possibility would be to just build more X1's. But after all (Wood, Amps, Cables etc etc), it's to expensive for us at the moment. So i thought chanching the driver instead would be a good alternative. I thought about using the Royal Turbomax B1000 M3 or maybe the Void V1000 or even the Royal Turbomax 1500 I M3 instead of the PD1850. We would win alot of power without investing alot of money when we would sell our PD's. And this are all very good drivers as far as i know. I heard the Void in the X1 a few times and it sounds great, so i'm especially interessted in some feedback about the Royal Turbomax Drivers. Some infos aside: we run 4 es18 with pd186 as kicks above. the x1's are powered by 2 Crest CPX 2600, Bridged at 4 Ohm (so about 3000 Watt per Apm) (offtopic: does somebody know if it's possible to run the Crest CPX at 2 ohm bridge?) Thank you for your feedback & opinion in advance! 1 Love The Tengu Collective our system: Edited by Tengu Collective - 23 February 2014 at 9:50am |
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infrasound
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From what I have heard, 1850 gives higher SPL than V1000 in X1.
What are your crossover points? Not sure if running those CPX in 4 ohm bridge is the best way to power them to be honest. Have you tried a bigger / different amplifier? From the specifications, the CPX shows 1300W at 1kHz, 2 ohm, 1%THD. Suggests actual output is more likely to be below 1kW, power supply is also going to be quite pushed at lowest impedances.. Not giving you much headroom, especially as 1850s happily lap up a clean 2kW
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Mark James
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have you considered a single mono stack of wsx with the pd1850 driver? 4 would do more in the 35hz<80hz range than four x1assuming you centre mono stack themi should think....... 4 loaded with v18-1000 is pretty deadly id imagine the same with pd1850....... stack of six even more potent :P just a thought...... also are the x1and es 18 time alignedetc??? what dsp and settings are you using?
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me so horny me love you long throw
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pfly
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It's been said many times that PD.1850 does not fit into WSX
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Mark James
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i thought there was a mod to make it fit? another thing to search for me then :P
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me so horny me love you long throw
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mini-mad
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I think your best bet here is a bigger amp for the X1s... the drivers (im told) are pretty much some of the best for those cabs, but, they will take almost 2Kw/driver! so rather then replacing the drivers or building more cabs why dont you borrow a bigger amp thats closer to double what your currently using and see how she goes..........
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If it sounds like a gorilla is trying to escape, turn it down.
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odc04r
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Rent a bigger amp, see what happens. I don't think your current model is doing them justice.
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mini-mad
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...thats kinda what i was getting at. you want something )well 2 as you have two crown amps on sub duty) that @4ohm bridged kicks out 4-5Kw. rent/borrow/beg... but dont steal, this is frowned upon! lol |
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If it sounds like a gorilla is trying to escape, turn it down.
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luton_soundman
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bigger amp definatly, or 2 better amps to bridge.
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luton_soundman
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those crest amps are ppeavey pv2600 the worst series of amps theyve brought out. try bridged qsc 4050, jbl mpx1200, proline3000, crest 8001, ca12, even crown 2400
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basshead2012
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Isnt that a proline in the pic? try that bridged acrros a pair and run a peavey on the other side and compare think you will be shocked.
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Dub Specialist
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Does look like a basshead the proline at the bottom or a denton same housing, also maybe a c-mark above that..+1 on that proline bridged
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