" MS" wrote in message
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"Mike Dobony" wrote in message
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In these larger arenas you will need some 15's. Definately not small or
portable. For the smaller areas some 10's would do good, but
auditoriums
you need some good throw that comes only in much bigger, much heavier
speakers, definately not something you would even want to have stored in
your trunk.

Sorry if I'm ignorant, but what are you referring to with these numbers,
10s
or 15s? Do you mean the watts per channel? The size of the speakers?

15" speakers, specifically the woofers, the bass and midrange. Anything
less than 250 watts RMS will be a waste. Your groups will not sound very
good and you will be hunting for something bigger before the year is out.


Go to a music store and listen to the pro quality (Yahama, Behringer,
etc.),
or music quality (Peavey) speakers.

Do you mean like the powered monitors someone mentioned? Yes, I may do
that.

Your desires are phantomware. The products that meet your desires do
not
exist. You can NOT get the sound you want in the auditoriums or gyms
without the 15's. You *might* get away with four 12's or even a pair of
double 12's, but you are talking even more space needed than you want.

As I said, there is of course a trade-off between size and quality/power.
Of
course there are no tiny speakers that sound better than a full size home
system. Just wondering what might be a good balance--something that's
still
fairly small and portable (while of course not being as small as the tiny
"travel speakers"), while having a decent sound for music. (Of course not
the best, at that size.) Wondering whether there are any models that
readers
here might recommend.

Also, what are you powering them off of?

??? We are talking about powered speakers, aren't we? They have their own
power source, and plug into AC.


How are you getting sound to them? Plugging directly in from your
computer/cd player/tape player? You will need something to control volume.
A small Behringer mixer for about $50 would do you well to feed a pair of
B300 Behringer 15" speakers with a plastic cabinet would give you the power
and sound you need, but they are not cheap. New you can get them for about
$700 a pair and the Eurorack UB502, 802 or 1002 for up to $60 at Musician's
Friend, http://www.musiciansfriend.com and get free shipping. You can also
ckeck out Ebay and some other web sites and get it cheaper or go used and
save another $100-200. Much less than this and you will not be sounding
very good at all in the larger sites.

I think your most reasonable solution is to go mono and stick with a
single
15.

Actually, I need stereo. No time to explain in depth now. For instance, in
those choral accompaniments I mentioned, with two part voice parts, I have
one part coming through one speaker, the other vocal part panned to the
other side.



These can be combined with a simple mixer that has both mono and stereo
outputs.

--
Mike D.

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