Re: OT: Hey Loopers< MF is blowing out Mackie SRM 350 p.a.portable PA speakers

["Rick Walker" <looppool@cruzio.com>]

Kris wrote:
"I love the RCFs, but realistically there is no "dramatic" difference 
between
them, the Mackie's, and JBLs."

I don't know the JBLs but have heard nothing but good things about them,
but with the 10"  RCFs   and the 10" Mackies   I've had a lot of gigging
experience.

The RCFs are rated as going 10 hertz lower than the Mackies and its
a pretty dramatic difference to my ears,  especially in the realm of
kick drums and low frame drums (this, of course, is without the use of 
subwoofers).

I don't know about the 12"  RCFs and 12"  Mackies, however,
having never heard a pair of 12"  RCFs but
I wanted to render a second opinion to Kris' informed one.

Either way, however,  with the incredibly cheap price of the Mackies 
currently
and the fact that the USD is so challenged , viz a vis the Euro, (and 
hence, 
the RCFs)
that the price differntial , alone,  makes the Mackies more attractive to 
a 
first purchaser.

I'm just sayin'.


ps,  the only thing I've noticed about the RCF's, Mackies and JBLs, though 
is that
in my pretty limited experience of the JBLs (only a couple of times live 
through
other's systems)  that the Mackies and RCFs seemed to have more detail
with percussion sounds with the JBLs a bit woofier for lack of a better 
term.

This may just be because the the RCF/Mackies have a midrange boost
that appeals to my rapidly deteriorating middle aged , rock damaged ears, 
however.